Complying Our Way to Tyranny
You can't comply your way out from under that largest government in history.
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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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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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September 19, 1796 - Pres. Washington published his farewell address to “friends and fellow-citizens.” It was filled to the brim with warnings of political dangers the people must avoid to prevent despotism. They’ve been almost completely ignored for generations. And the results haven't been good.
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That's why we can never depend on government power to protect our liberty.
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On the first “Constitution Day” - September 17, 1787 - Benjamin Franklin had a pretty dire warning and prediction that went far beyond his more famous quote of “if you can keep it.”
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Resisting overreaching government is our duty and as James Iredell, one of the first Supreme Court justices put it, “The only resource against usurpation.”
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You see, if we based legal decisions on the Constitution, i.e. originalism, then almost everything the left fought for over the last half century would be unconstitutional.
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Stopping the incessant growth of the largest government in history means doing things that might seem…a little more difficult…than what most people have done for generations. But using the advice and wisdom of the founders and old revolutionaries, we can get on a successful path to liberty.
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When we allow the government to tax, borrow and print money for all of its unconstitutional act, we're not just screwing ourselves.
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