There’s a basic lesson here. We the people need to learn how to exercise our rights whether the government wants us to or not.
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Fear is the foundation of government power. And war is the “art of conquering at home.” Insight and warnings from the founders - plus even a glimmer of hope and inspiration for the future.
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eftists like to insist that we can't say, "The Founders Never Intended" because they never agreed on anything.
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Only Congress has the power to “declare war.” But how it’s used today has almost no resemblance to the original, legal meaning in the Constitution.
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Today in 1751, James Iredell was born. A brilliant figure of the founding era, he was considered a legal prodigy at an extremely young age. Just prior to the American War for Independence, he penned a pamphlet, To the Inhabitants of Great Britain, which espoused his constitutional arguments against the British concept of Parliamentary sovereignty. […]
I spend a lot of times studying what the founders wrote. After all, that’s an important part of how we determine the original, legal meaning of the Constitution. But it’s important to always consider context. One of the foundations of constitutional originalism is that it has a fixed meaning. In a letter to William Johnson, […]
In 2016, during a period of about a year when it seemed possible — even likely — that Shelli would win her battle with cancer, she and I plotted out an article for the GiN website that would explain to our readers what had been going on in our lives to cause our extended hiatus […]
We have gotten to this point in American life. I predicted it when I wrote The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers. If you admire the founding generation or the Constitution, you are “extreme.” How do we know this? Because three “esteemed” law professors tell us this is the case. Their aim was Senate candidate Roy…
Many people argue that the Constitution has failed. However, the problem is not the Constitution itself, but a failure of the people to enforce it. The Constitution formed a union and authorized the formation of a general government with very limited powers. The purpose of the Constitution was to create a more perfect union where…
While we've published a great deal about what the Founders approved at the Convention of 1787, it's just as important to understand what was proposed but did NOT get approved.