His name forever associated with partisan political trickery, unfortunately few people know much else about Elbridge Gerry. He was a leading revolutionary, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a highly influential figure at the Philadelphia convention, one of only 3 who didn't sign the Constitution, and the 5th Vice-President, serving under James Madison.
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In this interview, I explain the meaning of and reason for the 9th and 10th Amendments targeted at children in the 10-year-old range.
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Government is waging a war on your liberty. And it’s not just happening when the team you don’t like is in power. This is how things have always been.
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Getting from the largest government in history to a real “land of the free” is not going to happen through the ballot box.
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“The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches.” Advice from Thomas Jefferson that helps us push on against the largest government in history. And the nullification movement keeps doing just that: gaining ground - step-by-step, person-by-person - and state-by-state - for the Constitution and liberty.
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With the debt ceiling deal done, most people think, "Problem solved." But the deal didn't solve anything. In fact, it made things worse.
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But with the power to do good comes the power to do evil. Nobody can be trusted with that kind of power.
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Although we generally refer to that list of abuses in the Declaration of Independence as “grievances” - that’s not how they were described in the text. Instead, they were referred to as “usurpations,” or a theft of power from the people. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
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Most people today have little to no familiarity with any of the books that influenced the founders - which is part of why things have gotten so far off the rails. And probably a big reason why government-run education is such a massive roadblock to liberty
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I talk about federalism and the Tenth Amendment on Episode 839 of The Brion McClanahan Show.
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