States and individuals can stop the new pistol brace rule - without waiting for the federal government to magically do something it almost never does - limit its own power. It’s going to take hard work – and good strategy. The latter, we’ve got from the “father of the Constitution” – who gave us a four-step blueprint.
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It took two centuries for the federal government to grow into the behemoth that it is today. And you're not going to cut it back down to size in a day.
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Thomas Jefferson called the public debt, “the greatest of the dangers to be feared.” As he put it, we have a choice “between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.”
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An "elective despotism" was not the government the revolutionaries fought for. Yet, here we are today.
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June 12, 1775 - Give up your guns and give up your friends - and we’ll give you peace? No deal said the Patriots. And it’s an attitude modern Americans would do well to heed.
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Tyranny goes hand in hand with powerful people controlling and manipulating language - the meaning of words. Here are four - of many - ways they’ve done this with the Constitution.
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If you want to subject people to tyranny, the first step is to eliminate the freeness of speech.
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States and localities don't have to help the feds enforce any federal act. It doesn't matter whether the act is constitutional or not.
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In a society where an alarming number of people have little to no knowledge of our history and foundational principles, we consider it our duty to teach as many people as possible about liberty, the original, legal meaning of the Constitution - and how to protect and defend both.
The post “Don’t Waste My Time with All this Talk!” first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.
What a surprise. Victims of government-run education make all kinds of bold claims about nullification. And almost every one of them are totally wrong.
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