States and individuals can stop the new pistol brace rule - without waiting for the federal government to magically do something it almost never does - limit its own power. It’s going to take hard work – and good strategy. The latter, we’ve got from the “father of the Constitution” – who gave us a four-step blueprint.
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An "elective despotism" was not the government the revolutionaries fought for. Yet, here we are today.
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June 12, 1775 - Give up your guns and give up your friends - and we’ll give you peace? No deal said the Patriots. And it’s an attitude modern Americans would do well to heed.
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Tyranny goes hand in hand with powerful people controlling and manipulating language - the meaning of words. Here are four - of many - ways they’ve done this with the Constitution.
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In a society where an alarming number of people have little to no knowledge of our history and foundational principles, we consider it our duty to teach as many people as possible about liberty, the original, legal meaning of the Constitution - and how to protect and defend both.
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What a surprise. Victims of government-run education make all kinds of bold claims about nullification. And almost every one of them are totally wrong.
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After you hear what Franklin had to say about executive power and human nature, we think you just might join us in saying "he called it!"
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Being bound by their oath to the Constitution, officers of the government violate that oath “whenever they give their sanction, by obedience, or otherwise, to any unconstitutional act of any department of the government.”
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The Constitution doesn’t give you rights, and the 2nd Amendment isn’t your “gun permit.” You are.
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While most people recognize that the Constitution created a much more “energetic” system than under the Articles of Confederation, few know that early plans during the convention, like James Madison’s Virginia Plan, would have set up a system much closer to the unlimited power of the British that the revolutionaries fought to free themselves from.
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