Same system. Different flag. The Revolutionaries Declared Independence in 1776 – and put their lives on the line to keep it. Yet today, the system we live under is virtually the same – in practice as the British system they fought a long war to secede from...
America is drowning in constitutional ignorance. “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free … it expects what never was and never will be.” -Thomas Jefferson Jefferson’s warning wasn’t about some distant danger. It was a hard truth: liberty cannot survive without...
Two vague words gave Congress unlimited power. It’s the greatest Constitutional scam in American history. In 1791, Alexander Hamilton laid down the blueprint. Jefferson, Madison, and others immediately called it a profound betrayal, warning that if Hamilton’s view...
Hamilton vs Madison and Jefferson. The first great economic debate under the Constitution was about tariffs, and it actually started under the Articles of Confederation. But the debate wasn’t about protectionism vs free trade. It was dueling forms of government...
Rights are not gifts from government. They don’t come from documents – like a constitution or a bill of rights. You have rights because you exist. Government – of course – isn’t too big of a fan of that view. On this episode – we’ve diving in...
