Don’t Give in to Fear: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speech No. 3

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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Supreme Court Effectively Grants Absolute Immunity to Federal Cops

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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Today in History: Orangetown Resolutions Passed in Response to the Coercive Acts

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.

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Unlimited Supremacy, Gun Control and the American Revolution

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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