They shouldn't have called it the "Bill of Rights." They should have called it the "Bill of Restrictions." That's because the Bill of Rights doesn't give us rights.
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Nullification Movement News, Episode 3. This week's stories include:
-5 States vs State and Fed Forfeiture
-The Fiat Currency Regime
-Richard Henry Lee's Warning
One of the grievances in the Declaration of Independence, the founders and old revolutionaries not only rejected the notion of “arbitrary” government, they considered it the definition of a tyranny.
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Politics, as Richard Henry Lee put it, is “the science of fraud.” And when it comes to resisting new federal mandates, expect plenty of that science. In this episode, learn the top-4 ways politicians pretend to be on the side of the Constitution and liberty.
The post Beware of Fake “Resistance” to Mandates first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.From Rhode Island and Virginia, to the 2nd Continental Congress, Dave Benner covers the independence movements in the colonies.
Today in 1776, the Second Continental Congress passed the Richard Henry Lee resolution, which called for ties between Great Britain and the American states to be “totally dissolved.” The vote was unanimous amongst the colonies, all of which had one vote regardless of size, with New York abstaining. Initially reluctant to support this measure, South…
Today in 1766, British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act, after months of protest from the colonies and British merchants. On the same day, it also passed the Declaratory Act, a pronouncement that Parliament’s authority in North America was supreme and binding upon the colonies. It declared that Parliament had the authority “to make laws and…
Until at least the 1960s or so, the "progressive school" of history suggested that we totally ignore the views and works of old revolutionaries like Samuel Adams and James Otis.
In October 1765, just two weeks before the Stamp Act was set to go into effect, Hancock sent a letter to his London agent, Johnathan Bernard, capturing the spirit of the time.