Relying on government to limit its own power is a really bad strategy for liberty. Ultimately, it’s up to us to defend our constitution and our liberty whether the government people want us to or not.
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Responding to Federalist claims that rejecting ratification would lead to danger, chaos and potential ruin, Patrick Henry took the other side, “it is the fortune of a free people not to be intimidated by imaginary dangers” and urged the addition of a bill of rights first.
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With these recent SCOTUS decisions (or non-decisions) the Court has now created nearly impenetrable absolute immunity for federal agents. It's probably only a matter of time before we see similar immunity afforded state and local cops.
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Damon Root at Reason.com thinks the recent Dobbs decision is an "insult to the 9th Amendment."
His position is based on two faulty premises
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It was a revolution in thought - a radical change in thinking.
The post The Real American Revolution first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.
Supporters of the monster state treat the necessary and proper clause like it's the "do whatever we want" clause.
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While the Orangetown Resolutions only represented a small number of people in a single New York County, they succinctly articulated and cemented the revolutionary principles of constitutional fidelity, restraint of government power, and resistance to usurpation.
The post Today in History: Orangetown Resolutions Passed in Response to the Coercive Acts first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.
I recently appeared on It's Too Late with Alan Mosley to discuss the recent Supreme Court decisions.
The post A Tale of Two Courts first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.
Government schools never teach this stuff. But the American Revolution - and the War for Independence - were about much more than “taxation without representation.” The Revolution was about unlimited, arbitrary power - complete and total supremacy over the colonies. And the battles started over a British gun control program.
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Today, a law extending and expanding a sales tax exemption on the sale of gold and silver bullion and coins goes into effect. The exemption relieves some of the tax burdens on investors, and it also eliminates one barrier to using gold and silver in everyday transactions, a foundational step for people to undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money.
The post Now in Effect: Virginia Law Takes Another Step Toward Treating Gold and Silver as Money first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.