This was the term the founders used to describe centralized authority with vast power and control.
This is exactly the kind of government we have today.
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The doctrine of “passive obedience and non-resistance” - was one the founders and old revolutionaries vehemently rejected as destructive to liberty. Yet, here we are today...is it based on fear, or maybe just old habits?
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In his farewell address of Sept 19, 1796 George Washington warned about the dangers of political factions.
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Federalist and Anti-federalist alike were opposed to consolidation of power and the ability of a single person to take the country to war. They also agreed that all power “is derived from the people.” These are three core principles underlying the structure of the Constitution that supporters of the monster state don’t want you to know.
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Do we have a "national" Constitution? The historical establishment would have you believe it.
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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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The structure and power for a totalitarian nightmare is all around us - overcriminalization, overregulation, surveillance, and so much more, including the ability to fund all their unconstitutional programs.
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The Declaration of Independence was not an effort to “find out new principles,” according to Thomas Jefferson. Instead, it was intended as “an expression of the American mind,” which was based on the principles of the greats like Locke, Cicero - and a guy named Algernon Sidney - whose book was owned by Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Franklin and many others.
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Another forerunner of our Constitution was the Charter of Liberties and Privileges of New York—adopted by the colony’s legislature on October 30, 1683.
One of the more ludicrous claims about the Constitution is that fifty-five old white rich men just sort of “made it up.” There are two versions of this claim: One that it was put together out of whole cloth to serve their interests, and the other that it was revealed in a flash of divine […]