Resist. First!
We have to resist overreaching government power at its very first approach. If we don't, it will grow and grow and grow.
The post Resist. First! first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.Faction is Death to Liberty
We were warned. A faction-first mentality only guarantees tyranny. And it has certainly helped give us the largest government in history today. But it’s not just dangerous to liberty - it also destroys social harmony.
The post Faction is Death to Liberty first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.Conscience, Muse and First Lady of the Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren
Mercy Otis Warren was one of the most formidable intellectuals in eighteenth-century America. Her prolific writing on the most important issues of the time, along with her massive history of the Revolution also earns her the title of America’s first female historian.
The post Conscience, Muse and First Lady of the Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.The 2nd Amendment: 3 main reasons it exists
1. Individual, natural right of self defense. 2. In defense of liberty, the union, and the states. 3. To prevent the "greatest threat to liberty" - large standing armies.
The post The 2nd Amendment: 3 main reasons it exists first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.What’s the Deal with all the Obedience?
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?
The post What’s the Deal with all the Obedience? first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.The Danger of Factions: Nothing New Under the Sun
A “frightful despotism,” would be the result of an “alternate domination of one faction over another,” warned George Washington. He was joined - with similar warnings - by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson and many others. But this opposition to factions didn’t start with the founding generation at all.
The post The Danger of Factions: Nothing New Under the Sun first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.Are we Living in a Nation of Wimps? Good Morning Liberty 10-15-18
one of the greatest challenges for the Constitution and liberty - a willingness, or lack of it, of people who believe in liberty to take a stand in support of it.
Today in History: Mercy Otis Warren was Born
She became known as one of the best writers of her time, and as the “Muse of the Revolution.”