Executive Precedent: From President to King
The power of the president has morphed from a restrained executive with limited power to an imperial king wielding nearly unlimited authority — not by coup but through the slow, steady creep of precedent. When talking about precedent, it’s usually in the...
Are You Falling for the Oldest Trick in Tyranny’s Playbook?
They call it “just this once.” But that’s how it always begins. One unconstitutional act becomes a precedent – and suddenly, lawless power becomes routine. From Tacitus to Paine, Dickinson to Washington, history has screamed the warning: precedent is how tyranny...
4 Forgotten Principles That Fueled the American Revolution
Division of power, precedent, the right to resist, and more – essential – and totally forgotten – principles that fueled the American Revolution. They’re all drawn from John Dickinson’s 1767 Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Totally forgotten...