When the Constitution was ratified, the word necessary meant, well, necessary. But in just a few short years, that was changed to convenient, or useful, giving the federal government the nearly unlimited power it has today.
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Happy birthday Samuel Adams, Bostonian firebrand of the patriot resistance against Britain!
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Instead, most people act as if the government is the boss.
Most people are wrong.
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The Constitution is not in force in any meaningful way. But it didn’t get like this overnight - not even close. So when did things go “off the rails” of the constitutional system? You might be surprised to hear how early it happened - and things just keep getting further and further away from it every year.
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Mercy Otis Warren was one of the most formidable intellectuals in eighteenth-century America. Her prolific writing on the most important issues of the time, along with her massive history of the Revolution also earns her the title of America’s first female historian.
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You can't comply your way out from under that largest government in history.
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Once ANY government is allowed to overreach and expand its powers, the genie will never voluntarily go back in the bottle.
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On Sept. 21, 1774, patriot leaders met in Worcester, Massachusetts, in response to the British seizure of gunpowder and munitions from a magazine in Charlestown earlier that month. The British raid on the magazine to what became known as "the gunpowder alarm."
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while Americans remain focused on the distractions and the scapegoats, the rot at the center of the Empire keeps eating away at the fabric of American society, just like cancer does.
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Thomas Jefferson said the Tenth Amendment is the "foundation" of the Constitution. That foundation is being destroyed by allowing the feds to exercise unconstitutional powers.
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