Facts. Getting from the largest government in history to a real “land of the free” isn’t going to be quick or easy. But without these three essential ingredients from the “real American Revolution,” we probably won’t get there at all.
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The “Real American Revolution” was a radical change in the views of the people - and it happened years before the War for Independence. Some of the main underlying principles are also essential for a radical change in the views of the people today.
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Every astute political thinker has realized this inherent problem with democracy. It's why the founding generation warned against excessive democracy in government.
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They definitely don’t teach this in the government-run schools. The founders told us how to enforce the limits of the constitution when the federal government - whether just one branch or all three - refuses to follow the rules. Learn from Jefferson, Madison, Dickinson, Sherman - and more.
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The founders considered consolidation one of the greatest threats to liberty. Both federalist and anti-federalist alike agreed on this political maxim, at least publicly. Their debate was mostly over whether the proposed constitution was creating such a centralized government - including warnings that a tendency towards it would lead to that result in the long run.
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“It is the due restraint and not the moderation of rulers that constitutes a state of liberty.”
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If we’re ever going to live in an actual “land of the free” - millions of people will have to start focusing their time and energy on rejecting these 5 huge threats to liberty, rather than just worrying about which person or team is going to run the biggest government in history.
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"All might be free," wrote Samuel Adams, "if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought." Getting on the path to liberty means understanding some of the most important principles underlying it.
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We’ve all heard or seen the slogan, but TO is the wrong word, by far. Under the system and principles of the founders and old revolutionaries, all power comes FROM the people - and they don’t need to ask, or demand, that they get that power back. They just need to take it.
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Author of the most widely-read documents on American liberty until the publication of Common Sense in 1776, John Dickinson’s work earned him the nickname “Penman of the Revolution.” Born Nov 13, 1732 - his writings are filled with principles and strategies we’d do well to follow much more today.
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