“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.”
Control over language is power. As Samuel Adams put it in a 1776 letter to John Pitts, “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” We’ve seen the “tools” of the monster state do this over and over again to the...
In 1984, George Orwell portrayed in chilling detail how totalitarian governments use the power of language to manipulate the masses. This notion was not unfamiliar to the founders, as James Madison warned that changing definitions of words over time would create “a...
