Our Natural Rights Foundation
“Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” We’re all familiar with this from the Declaration of Independence, but there’s much more to our natural rights foundation. Learn from the Founders and Old Revolutionaries. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition:...
Today in History: Orangetown Resolutions Passed in Response to the Coercive Acts
Exactly two years before passage of the Declaration of Independence, a short series of resolutions passed by residents of Orangetown, N.Y. set forth the foundational principles that supported the colonists’ quest for Independence. The resolutions were part of a...
Unlimited Supremacy, Gun Control and the American Revolution
Government schools never teach this stuff. But the American Revolution – and the War for Independence – were about much more than “taxation without representation.” The Revolution was about unlimited, arbitrary power – complete and total supremacy...