In effect, the move was a British gun control measure intended to limit the colonists' ability to arm themselves.
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The Constitution lists all of the federal government's powers.
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The founders recognized that power over the “purse strings” was a substantial one - as governments throughout history used that to control the people. Today, this is seen in huge ways, as federal “grant” programs are consistently used to nationalize local programs - from police and surveillance - to emergency management and response.
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Most federal infrastructure spending is unconstitutional. That sounds like crazy talk, right? But only is you think James Madison was crazy too.
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Using the wisdom and warnings of the Founders, it should be pretty obvious that we don’t live in the “land of the free.” Instead, an arbitrary government that keeps growing and growing - and growing - the very definition of a tyranny.
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Locke ranks as one of the most influential political philosophers and Enlightenment thinkers. His theories on natural law, social compact theory, property, psychology, monetarism, and republicanism have had a profound effect on the development of the western world.
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The Biden administration continues to ramp up military intervention in Somalia.
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Personnel changes from administration to administration. And policy can shift as well. But government power once given never goes away.
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Today in history, John Laurens, who was a Revolutionary War hero and a close confidante of George Washington, was killed in the Battle of the Combahee River. He was also a southerner far ahead of his time who came up with a scheme to offer some slaves the hope of freedom.
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During the debates over ratification of the Constitution, Anti-Federalists repeatedly warned about the dangers of too much power. One of their prominent arguments centered around the maxim that once power expands, people with power never seem to voluntarily give it back.
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