“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”
Today we celebrate insurrection. We call July 4 “Independence Day.” But the British called it an act of rebellion. You see, insurrection is in the eye of the beholder. Technically, the British were right. Encyclopedia Britannica defines insurrection as...
Forget everything the government-run schools taught you about the “pursuit of happiness.” The Founders had a far more radical understanding – something most history lessons miss or completely ignore. In this episode, we’ll unlock this message in the...
Although we generally refer to that list of abuses in the Declaration of Independence as “grievances” – that’s not how they were described in the text. Instead, they were referred to as “usurpations,” or a theft of power from the people. Sounds familiar, doesn’t...
One of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence, the founders and old revolutionaries not only rejected the notion of “arbitrary” government, they considered it the definition of a tyranny. Path to Liberty: June 20, 2022...
On June 15, 1776, Delaware declared its independence from both Great Britain and the colony of Pennsylvania. Delaware never existed as an independent colony under British rule. The colony of Pennsylvania was split into upper and lower sections with separate colonial...
Today in 1776 the Declaration of Independence was adopted by the Second Continental Congress. This transpired two days after the passage of the Richard Henry Lee resolution, which made all political ties with Great Britain “totally dissolved.” The document was a...