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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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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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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“The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches.” Advice from Thomas Jefferson that helps us push on against the largest government in history. And the nullification movement keeps doing just that: gaining ground - step-by-step, person-by-person - and state-by-state - for the Constitution and liberty.
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Although we generally refer to that list of abuses in the Declaration of Independence as “grievances” - that’s not how they were described in the text. Instead, they were referred to as “usurpations,” or a theft of power from the people. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?
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Most people today have little to no familiarity with any of the books that influenced the founders - which is part of why things have gotten so far off the rails. And probably a big reason why government-run education is such a massive roadblock to liberty
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Corrupt and repressive, weighted down by heavy bureaucracy - it’s all around us and getting worse year by year. But an alternative to total tyranny is attainable. These five principles can put things on a new path - to liberty.
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Living under the largest government in history - if we want to build a real “land of the free” - there’s a LOT of stuff that needs to be nullified into oblivion. Here are 4 that would set a strong foundation for liberty.
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“Tyrants care nothing for discussions that are to end only in discussion. Discussions, which do not interfere with the enforcement of their laws, are but idle wind to them.”
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Despite a well-documented pattern of lawlessness by the FBI, including a failure to comply with even the most modest reforms, the secret court charged with ensuring FISA surveillance is lawful has essentially given the FBI unlimited mulligans for all of its unconstitutional acts.
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