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 early and often – nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud was the maxim. They even provided us with the tools to do so under the...
Lessons for Liberty from John Dickinson and the Farmer Letters
Published in response to the hated Townshend Acts of 1767, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania were more popular in the colonies than any other publication until Thomas Paine’s Common Sense in 1776. They asserted the colonial cause against imperial British overreach...
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 “boundless field of power.” He was far from alone. As students of history, leading Founders like John Dickinson and George Washington also recognized that any...