Fear Enables Tyranny
Fear leads to pessimism and inaction. And if we fail to act, they have already won.
The post Fear Enables Tyranny first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure
That means it's easier to prevent tyranny than to end it when it takes hold. That's why it's imperative to resist the first encroachments on the Constitution.
The post An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.Arbitrary Government Is Tyranny
And what do we mean by "arbitrary" government? When the government can just changes the rules on a whim. In other words, a "living breathing" Constitution.
The post Arbitrary Government Is Tyranny first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.The tyranny of the majority?
Every astute political thinker has realized this inherent problem with democracy. It's why the founding generation warned against excessive democracy in government.
The post The tyranny of the majority? first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.Illegitimate Government: John Locke on Tyranny
Few people were more influential on the founders and old revolutionaries than John Locke. And his Two Treatises help us understand how they saw the difference between legitimate government - and the other kind - tyranny.
The post Illegitimate Government: John Locke on Tyranny first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.Top-5 Tools for Total Tyranny
The structure and power for a totalitarian nightmare is all around us - overcriminalization, overregulation, surveillance, and so much more, including the ability to fund all their unconstitutional programs.
The post Top-5 Tools for Total Tyranny first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.Lysander Spooner and Parchment Barriers
Many people argue that the Constitution has failed. However, the problem is not the Constitution itself, but a failure of the people to enforce it. The Constitution formed a union and authorized the formation of a general government with very limited powers. The purpose of the Constitution was to create a more perfect union where…
A Powerful Judiciary and Executive Is the Very Definition of Tyranny
For decades now, the Chief Executive, the Supreme Court, and the mammoth unaccountable federal bureaucracy have been operating FAR, FAR outside the Constitution, and too many folks just don’t seem to get it. Or worse, they don’t care. By our silence and routine submission to this endless stream of lawlessness we, in effect, further weaken…
*ALERT* MI Medicaid Expansion Update!
“Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.“ Thomas Paine American Crisis, No. 1 — 1776 In this Issue I.) Information on Committee for Senate substitute (S-7) for Medicaid Expansion bill HB 4714 II.)Medicaid Expansion by any other …
Government’s Getting Us Where it Wants Us — Eating Out of Its Hand
About the time I began homeschooling my two sons 12 years ago, there was a spoof of a “news” story circulating around the internet on homeschool discussion boards. The fake newspaper article was a send-up of every argument leveled against homeschooling by teachers’ unions and other advocates for public education who insisted homeschooling needed to… more