Living under the largest government in history is not the “land of the free,” and it’s not even close. But how did things get like this? Here are the top-5 reasons – the primary drivers of the monster state today.
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Creators always have the right to limit their own creations.
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John Adams warned us that government power is like a deadly disease. It’s “like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour.”
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Gerry was an American revolutionary, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He was also a member of the Philadelphia Convention that drafted the Constitution but refused to sign the document and campaigned against its ratification
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To be sure, the history of gun regulations is complex, so I don’t mean to be definitive. But I’m not seeing conclusive evidence that public carry was widely prohibited (as opposed to being regulated) in the relevant period. And without that evidence, the majority’s conclusion seems sound.
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Huntington was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. He went on to serve as President of the Continental Congress from 1779-1781 and President of the United States in Congress Assembled in 1781. In his home state of Connecticut, he was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court and elected governor in 1786, an office he held until his death in 1796.
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The first attempt in history to include anti-slavery, free-soil provisions into a national constitutional instrument was written by Thomas Jefferson. Most historians teach us about the slave-owning of Jefferson – which is important history, but they ignore this fact, and fact that his text of 1784 was copied almost verbatim as Section 1 of the 13th Amendment.
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Meanwhile, the federal government continues to spend money as if it has a printing press. The Biden administration blew through over half-a-trillion dollars last month alone. This brought total spending for fiscal 2022 to just over $4.4 trillion.
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