Supporters of the monster state treat the necessary and proper clause like it's the "do whatever we want" clause.
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I recently appeared on It's Too Late with Alan Mosley to discuss the recent Supreme Court decisions.
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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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A free people doesn't ask permission to live free. We need to rethink how we define freedom. It doesn't come from government.
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Incorporation - the legal doctrine whereby the Supreme Court applies the Bill of Rights to the states, was not part of the original, legal meaning of the Constitution. Instead, it arose out of the 14th Amendment, and the court first started applying it “selectively” in 1925.
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Most people think federal law is always supreme over conflicting state law. Most people are wrong.
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Brutus called a national debt "exceeding their ability ever to discharge” a calamity. But he was far from alone.
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Going from despotism - living under the largest government in history - to liberty - isn’t going to be a cake walk. But we’ve got some great teachers on how to get from here to there: the Founders and Old Revolutionaries. In their words - telling the story of our foundation, our path to liberty.
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if politicians can change the meaning of the document on a whim, it is a dead Constitution.
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One of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence, the founders and old revolutionaries not only rejected the notion of “arbitrary” government, they considered it the definition of a tyranny.
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