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Treaties, Trials and Supremacy: Patrick Henry's Anti-Federalist Speeches 8-10

Treaties, Trials and Supremacy: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speeches 8-10

In a series of speeches during the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry warned against a combination of the treaty, the ...
Top Warnings from the Antifederalist Brutus

Top Warnings from the Antifederalist Brutus

In his series of essays, Brutus repeatedly warned about the dangers of centralized power, predicting that the proposed government would ...
Five Big Flip-Flops from the Founders

Five Big Flip-Flops from the Founders

An important lesson on power and human nature. Trust no one with power to endanger liberty. That includes - don’t ...
ALPR: Stalking You by Your License Plate

ALPR: Stalking You by Your License Plate

The number of automated license plate readers has exploded to mind-boggling levels in recent years. Databases now contain billions of ...
Strike the Root

Strike the Root

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root” ...
Gerry-Mandered

Gerry-Mandered

His name forever associated with partisan political trickery, unfortunately few people know much else about Elbridge Gerry. He was a ...

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Category: Nullification Essentials

Nullification: Thomas Jefferson's Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

Nullification: Thomas Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

On this day in history - November 13, 1798 - the Kentucky Senate passed Jefferson's resolutions against the Alien and ...
What Needs to be Done: A Winning Mindset for Liberty

What Needs to be Done: A Winning Mindset for Liberty

A true revolutionary movement is a revolution of thought - which leads to actions that bring change. Here are the ...
State of the Nullification Movement: Strategy, Theory and Action

State of the Nullification Movement: Strategy, Theory and Action

Theory, strategy, advice - they're all important. But taking concrete steps to support the Constitution and advance liberty are essential ...

Category: Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Nullify Attacks on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Nullify Attacks on the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

How to stop federal restrictions on the 2nd Amendment? Follow the advice of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison to undermine, ...
4 Essential Steps to Protect the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

4 Essential Steps to Protect the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

With attacks ramping up from both left and right in recent years - there is no quick fix. But these ...
Top-5 Reasons I Don't Support the NRA

Top-5 Reasons I Don’t Support the NRA

We're often told by people who want to restrict the right to keep and bear arms that the NRA is ...

Category: In the Founders’ Words

When Our Rights are Invaded: The Founders on Precedent and Resistance

When Our Rights are Invaded: The Founders on Precedent and Resistance

As Thomas Jefferson warned us, to take a “single step” beyond the limits of the constitution is to take a ...
Remembering Boston Massacre Day: John Hancock Edition

Remembering Boston Massacre Day: John Hancock Edition

Little known to most people today, for many years after the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770 - residents of ...
Liberty is the Foundation: Timeless Wisdom from the "Penman of the Revolution"

Liberty is the Foundation: Timeless Wisdom from the “Penman of the Revolution”

Author of the most widely-read papers on American liberty up until publication of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense in 1776, John ...

Category: Federal Courts

How Federal Courts Gave us Qualified Immunity and Forced it on All 50 States

How Federal Courts Gave us Qualified Immunity and Forced it on All 50 States

A legal doctrine first created out of thin air by judicial fiat went unchallenged - and the court did what ...
Bump Stock Edition: Don't Rely on Federal Courts to Protect Liberty

Bump Stock Edition: Don’t Rely on Federal Courts to Protect Liberty

When bump stocks were redefined into something they're not in Dec 2018, the leading organizations either ignored it or took ...
The Supreme Court is Part of the Problem, But it Shouldn't Be

The Supreme Court is Part of the Problem, But it Shouldn’t Be

Good Morning Liberty: June 12, 2019 With the Supreme Court being in the news right now - finishing its term ...

Category: Police State

War on Liberty: An Overview of Federal Programs that Militarize and Nationalize Local Police

War on Liberty: An Overview of Federal Programs that Militarize and Nationalize Local Police

With local police looking and acting more like an occupying army than peace officers every year - how did it ...
Operation Legend: Feds Funding More Unconstitutional Local Surveillance

Operation Legend: Feds Funding More Unconstitutional Local Surveillance

Pushing for “law and order” but ignoring the supreme law of the land, the DOJ has been throwing cash at ...
Qualified Immunity Won't be Ended by the Federal Courts

Qualified Immunity Won’t be Ended by the Federal Courts

Two more cases in the federal court system - and both times the judges agreed that rights were violated, but ...

Category: Nullification Strategy

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Permission

We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Permission

The Founders and Old Revolutionaries told us that liberty would only be safe when the people rejected and resisted usurpations ...
An "All or Nothing" Approach is Bad for Liberty

An “All or Nothing” Approach is Bad for Liberty

Have you ever been attacked as a "statist" because something you support to expand liberty - in a big or ...
State of the Nullification Movement: Strategy, Theory and Action

State of the Nullification Movement: Strategy, Theory and Action

Theory, strategy, advice - they're all important. But taking concrete steps to support the Constitution and advance liberty are essential ...

Category: Essential History

James Otis, Jr: Firebrand of the Revolution

James Otis, Jr: Firebrand of the Revolution

Few today know James Otis, Jr. - born Feb 5, 1725 - whose 5 hour oration against the Writs of ...
Peace and Independence: Franklin, Adams and Jay on the Treaty of Paris

Peace and Independence: Franklin, Adams and Jay on the Treaty of Paris

Sept. 3, 1783, the Treaty of Paris formally established “a general peace.” Signed by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and John ...
Unlimited, Centralized Power: "In All Cases Whatsoever"

Unlimited, Centralized Power: “In All Cases Whatsoever”

Of all the Acts of Parliament that angered the American colonists and led to the War for Independence, the Declaratory ...

Category: Surveillance

Fusion Centers Facilitate Spying on Everybody

Fusion Centers Facilitate Spying on Everybody

Fusion centers were sold to the public as state-federal partnerships to go after "the terrorists." But to keep their budgets ...
Stolen Loot, Secret Spending and Stingray Surveillance

Stolen Loot, Secret Spending and Stingray Surveillance

Asset forfeiture, federal equitable sharing funds, secret warrantless surveillance and more. All unconstitutional - and all in a day’s work ...
Federal Stimulus Funds Gun Control Surveillance

Federal Stimulus Funds Gun Control Surveillance

A gun control surveillance technology - “acoustic gunshot detection” - has been funded by unconstitutional federal grants to local police ...

Category: War Powers

Defund the Pentagon

Defund the Pentagon

While left and right bicker over calls - real or pretended - to defund the police, there's a much bigger ...
Who Ends War under the Constitution? Iraq, Iran, AUMF Edition

Who Ends War under the Constitution? Iraq, Iran, AUMF Edition

On Thursday, the House passed an amendment to repeal the 2002 Iraq AUMF. The administration is vehemently opposed and will ...
Thomas Jefferson vs the Barbary Pirates

Thomas Jefferson vs the Barbary Pirates

Many people who support unconstitutional executive war powers like to claim that Thomas Jefferson took the same approach in the ...

Category: Asset Forfeiture

Asset Forfeiture is Theft: An Overview of the State and Federal Programs

Asset Forfeiture is Theft: An Overview of the State and Federal Programs

Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken only after a criminal conviction, civil forfeiture allows law enforcement to take property ...
Asset Forfeiture was Not Ended by the Supreme Court

Asset Forfeiture was Not Ended by the Supreme Court

Setting things straight - asset forfeiture has not been stopped, and additional action can bring it to an end ...
Bills to Stop Asset Forfeiture Filed in 5 States: Good Morning Liberty 01-09-19

Bills to Stop Asset Forfeiture Filed in 5 States: Good Morning Liberty 01-09-19

The 2019 state legislative session is barely underway and already there are 5 states considering legislation to take on asset ...

Category: Nullification Movement

State of the Nullification Movement: Strategy, Theory and Action

State of the Nullification Movement: Strategy, Theory and Action

Theory, strategy, advice - they're all important. But taking concrete steps to support the Constitution and advance liberty are essential ...
2nd Amendment: What the Heck is Happening in Texas?

2nd Amendment: What the Heck is Happening in Texas?

Some bad news, followed by more bad news, unfortunately. A “2nd Amendment Sanctuary” bill in Texas has a pretty major ...
The History behind the Three-Fifths Compromise

The History behind the Three-Fifths Compromise

Of all the compromises which produced the Constitution at the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, the Three-Fifths Compromise is probably considered ...

Category: Federal Reserve

It All Started with the Central Bank

It All Started with the Central Bank

The arguments supporting the creation of the First Bank of the U.S. became the basis for a loose constitutional construction ...
Alexander Hamilton's Worst Flip Flop

Alexander Hamilton’s Worst Flip Flop

Alexander Hamilton went from arguing that the federal government would only have “expressly delegated” powers during the ratification debates, to ...
James Madison: The Constitution vs the National Bank

James Madison: The Constitution vs the National Bank

In 1791, James Madison gave two major speeches on the National Bank, opposing it primarily on grounds that it wasn’t ...

Category: Brutus’ Antifederalist Papers

Subject to no Control: Antifederalist Brutus No. 13 and 14

Subject to no Control: Antifederalist Brutus No. 13 and 14

Continuing his warnings about the power of the federal judiciary, Brutus not only opposes appellate jurisdiction as one of the ...
Independent of Heaven Itself: Antifederalist Brutus No. 15

Independent of Heaven Itself: Antifederalist Brutus No. 15

Warning that the federal judiciary would be much more than just “independent,” the antifederalist writer Brutus predicted that it would ...
The Imperial Senate: Antifederalist Brutus No. 16

The Imperial Senate: Antifederalist Brutus No. 16

In his final paper, Brutus takes on the structure and power of the Senate. He found one part he really ...

Category: Cato’s Antifederalist Papers

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Category: Patrick Henry’s Antifederalist Speeches

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