What if liberty and democracy are opposites? What if the principle underlying liberty is to restrain the government to maximize individual autonomy? What if the principle underlying democracy is to unleash the government to give the people whatever they want?
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The number of automated license plate readers has exploded to mind-boggling levels in recent years. Databases now contain billions of scans and they’re growing fast. This empowers local, state and federal governments to not just track you and build profiles on where you go, but also to use AI as a dystopian pre-crime tool to target people based on their driving patterns.
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The Moore case illustrates how difficult some of the court’s work can be. It also illustrates the ignorance and partisanship of many legal commentators and the foolishness behind the ubiquitous claim that the court has a “6–3 conservative bloc.”
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”
The post Strike the Root first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.
This is an unsustainable trajectory, especially in a high-interest rate environment.
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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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The legislation would legalize the “possession, preparation, obtaining, transfer, as specified, or transportation of” specific amounts of psilocybin, psilocyn, DMT, ibogaine and mescaline for personal or facilitated use. The bill specifically provides for “group counseling and community-based healing” involving entheogenic substances.
The post Second California Assembly Committee Passes Bill to Legalize Some Psychedelics Despite Federal Prohibition first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.
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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