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Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Patrick Henry – Resolutions Against the Stamp act (1765)

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

James Otis, Jr. – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

John Jay – an Address of the Convention of the Representatives of the State of New York to Their Constituents (23 Dec 1776)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania VI (1767)

Thomas Jefferson – Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

James Otis, Jr – Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (9 Dec 1771)

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution, Chapter II

John Adams – Governor Winthrop to Governor Bradford (9 Feb 1767)

Joseph Hawley – Letter to John Adams (25 July 1774)

Benjamin Franklin – Plain Truth (17 Nov 1747)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 42 (26 Aug 1721)

Thomas Paine – The Crisis No. IV (13 Sept 1777)

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This isn’t a Republic. It’s a Coup.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:35:34 +0000

America was built on a foundation that constitutional violations are a deadly disease. Give government an inch – they’ll take a few thousand miles and they’ll never stop. Before too long, it’ll get to a place where they’re just eating us alive: Our rights. Our money And everything in between. On this Episode, it’s the ancient Roman maxim behind the American Revolution.

Path to Liberty: April 22, 2026

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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania III (1767)

James Madison, Detached Memoranda (ca. 31 Jan 1820)

Ovid – Remedia Amoris (ca. 2 AD)

Tacitus, Annals, Book XI, Chapter 24 (115-120)

Machiavelli, The Prince, Ch. 3 – Of Mixed Principalities (1513)

James Otis – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania VI (1767)

Montesquieu – The Spirit of Laws (1758)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania IX (1767)

Persius – Satires III, line 64 (58-62 AD)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIII (1782)

“Old” Abraham White – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (16 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Lafayette (2 Apr 1790)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

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Taxation isn’t Theft. It’s Robbery.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:23:07 +0000

The anti-federalist Luther Martin predicted government would be so hungry for your money to feed its power, they would squeeze you like “the juice from an orange.” On this episode, it’s Martin’s warnings about the taxing power – more than a century before the 16th Amendment.

Path to Liberty: April 15, 2026

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Constitution – general Welfare Clause, Article I, Section 8, Clause 1

Philadelphia Convention (21 Aug 1787)

Articles of Confederation – Article VIII

Taxing Power: Luther Martin’s Anti-Federalist Warnings

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Commander. Not King.

Alan Mosley — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:20:32 +0000

“Much inferior to it” – That’s how Alexander Hamilton described the commander in chief power in comparison to the crown. Yet today – most people who just yell ARTICLE II to support all kinds of unconstitutional acts don’t have a clue what the Founders set up under the constitution. On this episode, we’re setting the record straight. It’s commander. Not king.

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Constitution: Article II, Section 2

Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 74 (25 Mar 1788)

Constitution of Delaware 1776, Article IX

Constitution of Virginia 1776, Clause 12

BBC – Thomas Fairfax

Letter from Sir Thomas Robinson to William Shirley (Aug. 28, 1755)

George Washington – Commission (14 Aug 1755)

Saikrishna Prakash – Deciphering the Commander-in-Chief Clause

Act of Settlement (1701)

Militia Act 1786, 26 Geo. 3 c. 107, § 96 (Eng.).

Commission from the Continental Congress (19 June 1775)

Instructions from the Continental Congress (22 June 1775)

John Hancock to George Washington (5 July 1775)

Rules and Articles, for the Better Government of the Troops Raised (1775)

Washington’s Address to Congress Resigning his Commission (23 Dec 1783)

Constitution – Article I, Section 8

Philadelphia Convention (17 Aug 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 69 (14 Mar 1788)

Militia Act of 1661

Constitution of New York 1777, Article XVIII

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It’s not Money. It’s Robbery.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:46:47 +0000

You are being ripped off. When it comes to fiat paper “money” – Roger Sherman didn’t hold back. He saw it as an unjust, and totally immoral weapon that turns government into a legalized protection racket for fraud.

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Constitution: Article I, Section 10

Philadelphia Convention (28 Aug 1787)

Roger Sherman – A Caveat Against Injustice (1752)

Ron Michener – Money in the American Colonies

Bob Ruppert – The Currency Act: A Problem and a Solution

Maharrey – Mercantilism and the Road to the American Revolution

British Mercantilism and the Cost of Empire

Cleveland Fed – Paper Money and Inflation in Colonial America

Lewis Timothy – An Essay on Currency (1732)

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Rights aren’t Gifts from Government. They’re Ultimatums.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:25:16 +0000

For the American Revolutionaries “Liberty or Death” wasn’t just a slogan. It was a warning. Rights aren’t gifts from government, and if you violate them you’ll pay the price. On this episode, it’s the natural rights foundation built on a 2000 year lineage – that made “Rebellion to tyrants” not just a suggestion, but a moral duty: “Obedience to God”

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)

Alexander Hamilton – The Farmer Refuted (23 Feb 1775)

John Dickinson – An address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados (1766)

Sir William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – Principles of Natural and Politic Law, Book 1, Part 1, Chap 10 (1748)

Aristotle – The Nicomachean Ethics (~330BC)

Cicero – Treatise on the Commonwealth (54-51 BC)

Samuel von Pufendorf – On the Duty of Man and Citizen According to the Natural Law (1673)

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – Principles of Natural and Politic Law, Book 2, Part 1, Chap 3 (1748)

John Locke – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 12 (1767)

Patrick Henry – Resolutions Against the Stamp Act (30 May 1765)

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – Principles of Natural and Politic Law, Book 2, Part 3, Chap 5 (1748)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Lafayette (2 Apr 1790)

Joseph Warren – Letter to Samuel Adams (15 June 1774)

George Washington – Letter to Major General Charles Lee (9 May 1776)

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (6 July 1775)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

John Jay – an Address of the Convention of the Representatives of the State of New York to Their Constituents (23 Dec 1776)

Benjamin Franklin – Proposal for the Great Seal of the United States (before 14 Aug 1776)

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They’re not Patriots. They’re Puppets.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:20:14 +0000

“The dupes of other men.” Noah Webster told us exactly what happens when people join a political party – they become mindless puppets of people in power. His timeless warning that “faction is death to liberty” is one we can’t afford to ignore any longer.

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EPISODE: This Isn’t a Political Contest. It’s the Tyranny Washington Predicted

EPISODE: Forgotten Dangers of Political Parties: Warnings We’ve Ignored for too Long

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This isn’t America. It’s a BETRAYAL of the Revolution.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:40:02 +0000

“Remember, my friends, from whom you sprang.” For 13 years after the Boston Massacre of March 5, 1770 – the Sons of Liberty laid out an uncompromising blueprint for a free people, the foundation of the revolution. What they fought for – in their own words. And the brutal question: have we remembered, or did we let this country become a den of thieves?

Path to Liberty: March 4, 2026

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Joseph Warren (6 Mar 1775)

William Tudor (5 Mar 1779)

Thomas Dawes, Jr. (5 Mar 1781)

Rev. Peter Thacher (5 Mar 1776)

James Lovell (2 Apr 1771)

John Hancock (5 Mar 1774)

Benjamin Hichborn (5 Mar 1777)

Joseph Warren (5 Mar 1772)

Dr. Thomas Welsh (5 Mar 1783)

George Richards Minot (5 Mar 1782)

Jonathan Williams Austin (5 Mar 1778)

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This Isn’t a Presidency. It’s a Throne.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:47:17 +0000

The executive, James Madison warned, is the branch of power most interested in and prone to war. Empowering it to both declare and wage war, not only guarantees endless war, it’s a ROYAL power the founders fought to free themselves from. That’s why a free people must disarm the president from this potential.

Path to Liberty: February 25, 2026

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Helvidius I (24 Aug 1793)

Helvidius IV (14 Sept 1793)

Helvidius II (31 Aug 1793)

Helvidius III (7 Sept 1793)

Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Political Reflections (23 Feb 1799)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 Apr 1798)

Episode – War Power Showdown: James Madison vs the Executive Branch

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This Isn’t a Warrant. It’s a Home Invasion.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:21:20 +0000

It started a revolution. Now it’s just your average Wednesday. Government agents with blank-check power to search and seize – no oath, no probable cause, no limits. James Otis called it “the worst instrument of arbitrary power.” Today, most people won’t even flinch at this brazen attack on your life, liberty and property.

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James Otis, Jr. – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

John Adams – Letter to William Tudor, Sr. (1 June 1818)

Sir Edward Coke – Semayne’s Case (1604)

Maharrey – 1761: When Independence was Born

Episode – Mercantilism Before the Tea Party: Forgotten Grievance of the Revolution

Massachusetts Historical Society – Editorial Note

Customs Act of 1662

John Adams on the Customs Act

Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Superior Court of Judicature of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Between 1761 and 1772

John Adams – “Abstract of the Argument”: Ca. April 1761

John Adams – Letter to William Tudor, Sr. (18 Dec 1816)

John Adams – Letter to William Tudor, Sr. (29 Mar 1817)

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You’re not Free. You’re Ruled.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:27:43 +0000

The foundation of the American revolution was a question of WHO IS IN CHARGE: government, or the people? This is the story of the real root cause of the clash with the British. Once we’re done, you’ll see – This isn’t a “land of the free” – because government won

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St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Sir Francis Bernard – Principles in Law and Polity Applied to the Government of the British Colonies in America (1764)

Thomas Paine – Dissertations on Government (1786)

James Otis, Jr. – The rights of the British colonies asserted and proved (1764)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. II (1767)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. IV (1767)

Samuel Adams, James Otis, Jr. – Massachusetts Circular Letter (11 Feb 1768)

Benjamin Franklin – Examination before the House of Commons (13 Feb 1766)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to William Franklin (13 Mar 1768)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on Early Career (6 Jan – 29 July 1821)

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

Edmund Randolph – Essay on the Revolutionary History of Virginia 1774-1782

George Washington – Cash Accounts (1774)

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How to Spot a Redcoat: Easy 6-Step Guide

Michael Boldin — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:34:58 +0000

They’re EVERYWHERE! They don’t wear British uniforms. They hide their true colors under slogans and wrap it in patriotism. But listen to what they support, and you’ll see the old mindset everywhere. The founders didn’t just fight to secede from the British army – they fought to reject a set of ideas they considered a fate worse than death. On this episode – 6 ways to spot a redcoat, the enemy within.

Path to Liberty: February 4, 2026

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Samuel Adams – Loyalty and Sedition (8 Aug 1748)

John Adams – VI. “U” to the Boston Gazette (29 Aug 1763)

John Dickinson, Thomas Jefferson – Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (6 July 1775)

James Otis, Jr – Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762)

John Milton – Paradise Lost (1667)

Samuel Adams – Candidus (9 Dec 1771)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Samuel Adams, James Otis Jr – Massachusetts Circular Letter (11 Feb 1768)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part the Second (1792)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

Thomas Jefferson – Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

Joseph Warren – Massacre Day Oration (5 Mar 1772)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington (18 Jan 1790)

James Otis Jr. – The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

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This isn’t America. It’s “Do As You’re Told.”

Michael Boldin — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:31:23 +0000

The founders fought a long, bloody war to secede from the British – where government held total power, and the people were expected to comply, or die. The views they held EVEN before shots were fired – that’s what America is supposed to be. On this episode, it’s the story of the REAL American Revolution

Path to Liberty: January 28, 2026

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John Adams – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 Aug 1815)

John Adams – Letter to Jedidiah Morse (29 Nov 1815)

John Adams – Letter to Richard Sharp (27 Feb 1811)

James Otis, Jr – Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762)

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary (1773)

Sir Francis Bernard – Principles in Law and Polity Applied to the Government of the British Colonies in America (1764)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)

George Mason – Remarks on annual elections for the Fairfax Independent Company (April 1775)

Thomas Jefferson – Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

John Adams – Letter to Hezekiah Niles (13 Feb 1818)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves Against the Stamp Act (29 Mar 1765)

John Adams – Letter to Jedidiah Morse (1 Jan 1816)

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This isn’t Asking Permission. It’s Physical Removal.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:36:14 +0000

1768 Boston. British agents board John Hancock’s ship. No warrant. No authorization. What happens next isn’t a petition or a court filing. It’s what the founders showed a free people must do when government oversteps – a timeless blueprint of how to be free, whether the government likes it, or not.

Path to Liberty: January 21, 2026

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Opinion of Attorney General Jonathan Sewall of Massachusetts in the Case of the Lydia

JL Bell – Have you Searched the Lydia?

Maharrey – Writs, Riots, and Redcoats: Hancock’s Spark of the Revolution

John Adams – Diary (26 Apr 1766)

Editorial Note – Mass. Historical Society

JL Bell – John Hancock’s Busy Month of May 1768

Gov. Thomas Hutchinson – Letter to Richard Jackson (16 June 1768)

JL Bell – “I distinctly heard the Noise of the Tackles”

Joseph Harrison – Letter to the Marquis of Rockingham (17 June 1768)

William Senhouse – Memoirs of a British Naval Officer at Boston, 1768-1769

Thomas Hutchinson – Letter to Thomas Whately (18 June 1768)

Paul Revere – Landing Their Troops!

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This isn’t Defense. It’s the Constitution Betrayed.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:36:31 +0000

He wanted a president for life – the ultimate big-government founder. Yet Alexander Hamilton’s position on war powers makes every modern president look like they’ve completely betrayed the constitution. The standard they buried. Original sources. Direct quotes. The truth the schools don’t teach.

Path to Liberty: January 14, 2026

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Pacificus I (29 June 1793)

Federalist 69 (14 Mar 1788)

The Hamilton Plan – Philadelphia Convention (18 June 1787)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Gov. William Blount to Henry Knox (11 Sept 1792)

Battle of Buchanan’s Station (30 Sept 1792)

Henry Knox to George Washington (9 Oct 1792)

War Powers: The True History of John Adams and the Quasi-War with France

John Adams – First Annual Address to Congress (22 Nov 1797)

James McHenry – Letter to Alexander Hamilton (12 May 1798)

Alexander Hamilton, Letter to James McHenry (17 May 1798)

Enclosure: Appointments by Authority (25 July 1798)

Thomas Jefferson – First Annual Message to Congress (8 Dec 1801)

The Examination I (17 Dec 1801)

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He Could Have Been King. Watch What He Did Instead.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:04:25 +0000

January 8, 1790: George Washington delivered the first State of the Union. It wasn’t a royal decree. It was a job report. No applause. No guests. Just the shortest annual message in history. He could have acted like a king. Instead, he called for an armed, educated people ready to defend their own liberty. He established the standard for a free republic – defense, war powers, education, debt and more – and showed us exactly how it’s done.

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Federal Edifice in New York (1789)

George Washington, Diary Entry (8 Jan 1790)

Constitution, Article II, Section 3

Virginia Herald and Fredericksburg Advertiser, Volume 3, Number 138 (21 Jan 1790)

Laura Clark – Smithsonian Magazine

George Washington – First Annual Address to Congress (8 Jan 1790)

Dave Benner – North Carolina Chooses Independence

Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington, Plan for the Arrangement of the Militia (18 Jan 1790)

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It Didn’t Say Go Abroad. It Said Stay Home.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:13:16 +0000

Most who talk about the Monroe Doctrine hope you’ve never read it. In this episode, we go right to the source, James Monroe’s message to congress on Dec 2, 1823. Understanding his exact words, placing them alongside George Washington and John Quincy Adams, shows the doctrine as it was understood at the time: restraint and non-intervention.

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James Monroe – Seventh Annual Message/Monroe Doctrine (2 Dec 1823)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

John Quincy Adams – Independence Day Oration (4 July 1821)

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It Wasn’t About Taxes. It Was About Power.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:42:43 +0000

The American Revolution wasn’t about taxes. It was about opposing the dangerous precedents hidden in even the smallest steps, like a 3 pence tax on tea. And what happened in the years leading up to 1776 never stops. From ancient Athens to revolutionary America, there’s a pattern most people never see – until it’s too late.

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Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress (15 Dec 1774)

James Madison, Detached Memoranda (ca. 31 Jan 1820)

Ovid – Remedia Amoris (ca. 2 AD)

James Otis – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. IX (1767)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (9 Dec 1771)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 76 (12 May 1722)

Samuel Adams – Valerius Poplicola, Boston Gazette (5 Oct 1772)

James Lovell – Massacre Day Oration (2 Apr 1771)

David Hume – The History of England vol 4 (1759)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

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This isn’t a Land of the Free. It’s a Population on its Knees

Michael Boldin — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 18:35:49 +0000

In 1767, John Dickinson answered the timeless question: Who are a free people? On this episode, we uncover the FATAL TRAP – the shocking method politicians use to disguise tyranny as legal power and the “fatal error” that the “Penman of the Revolution” warned would guarantee despotism.

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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767)

Letter VI

Letter XI

Letter VII

Conyers Middleton – The Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero (1741)

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They Call It Loyalty. It’s Treason.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:43:04 +0000

They twisted the words. Flipped the definitions. Made traitors look like patriots and patriots look like traitors. Samuel Adams warned us in 1748. Thomas Gordon exposed the trick decades earlier. The founders and old revolutionaries knew what we’ve long forgotten.

Path to Liberty: November 19, 2025

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Samuel Adams – Loyalty and Sedition, Independent Advertiser (8 Aug 1748)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 36 (8 July 1721)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Thomas Jefferson, John Dickinson – Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)

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They Aren’t Patriots. They’re a Trojan Horse.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:15:59 +0000

It’s the oldest trick in the book – a scam for power and control. From ancient tyrants who faked attacks, to the founders’ own warnings, this is the real Trojan Horse that the people have faced all through history. The greatest danger isn’t a foreign invader – it’s the ruler who PRETENDS to love liberty.

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John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Machiavelli – The Prince (1513)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 76 (12 May 1722)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. IX (1767)

Thomas Gordon – Works of Sallust

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)

John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters No 17 (18 Feb 1721)

Works of Tacitus – Thomas Gordon Translation – Annals Vol 2

BOOK: The Anti-Federalists Were Right?

The Works of Tacitus, vol. 1 – Gordon’s Discourses, Annals (Books 1-3)

Thomas Gordon – A Discourse of Standing Armies (1722)

Benjamin Rush, Letter to William Gordon (10 Dec 1778)

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Ignorance Isn’t an Accident. It’s a WEAPON.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:51:33 +0000

The founders knew what most ignore today: freedom has a prerequisite. KNOWLEDGE. Tyrants throughout history understood this – learning makes people argue instead of obey. From ancient Rome to feudal Europe to today, it’s the same playbook. Ban it. Control it. Lie about it. The question is: what are YOU going to do about it?

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Benjamin Rush – Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government (1786)

Cesare Bonesana di Beccaria – An Essay on Crimes and Punishments (1764)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part the First (1791)

Samuel Adams – Essay as Valerius Poplicola – Boston Gazette (5 Oct 1772)

Sir Francis Bacon – The Advancement of Learning (1605)

John Adams – A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law,” No. 1 (12 Aug 1765)

John Locke – An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)

George Washington – Letter to John Jay (18 May 1786)

Abigail Adams – Letter to John Quincy Adams (20 Mar 1780)

Benjamin Franklin – Poor Richard Improved (1755)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Charles Yancey (6 Jan 1816)

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Lysander Spooner: The Truth About “Checks and Balances”

Michael Boldin — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:29:44 +0000

Spooner understood something most Americans still refuse to believe today. Every check on federal power you were taught about? They don’t work. Oaths? Meaningless. Elections? Theater. Separation of powers? Not in practice. As he put it, tyrants only care about one thing.

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Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

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It Wasn’t Checks and Balances. It Was Trust.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:23:22 +0000

The Anti-Federalist vs Federalist debate you were never taught. It wasn’t about checks and balances. It was about one word: TRUST. The Anti-Federalists said you can NEVER trust the man. The Federalists countered – maybe so, but you CAN trust the PLAN. It was a core conflict over ratification – and an ironic twist that tells us which side was right.

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John Williams – New York Ratifying Convention (2 July 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

“Old” Abraham White – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (16 Jan 1788)

James Lincoln – South Carolina Debates (18 Jan 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

William Grayson – Virginia Ratifying Convention (21 June 1788)

Impartial Examiner III (5 Mar 1788)

John Marshall – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)

Oliver Ellsworth – Landholder No. III (19 Nov 1787)

John Jay – Address to the People of the State of New York (12 Apr 1788)

George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

Whitmill Hill – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (26 July 1788)

Patrick Henry (16 June 1788)

John Adams – Notes for an Oration at Braintree (Spring 1772)

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution vol. 2 (1805)

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Five Weapons. One Target: Your Liberty.

Michael Boldin — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:15:45 +0000

The Anti-Federalists weren’t just arguing politics; they were issuing dire warnings for generations to come. They predicted the Constitution contained the seeds of tyranny that would lead to a corrupt aristocracy or monarchy. On this episode, we explore five of their specific predictions and ask the essential question: Were they right?

Path to Liberty: October 24, 2025

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New Book: The Anti-Federalists Were Right?

Pennsylvania – Address and reasons of dissent of the minority of the convention (12 Dec 1787)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)

Elbridge Gerry’s Objections -Letter to Massachusetts Legislature (18 Oct 1787)

Episode – We the People vs We the States: The Constitution’s Real Purpose

Elbridge Gerry – Letter to James Warren (18 Oct 1787)

George Mason – Objections to the Constitution (16 Sept – 4 Oct 1787)

Episode – Repeal the 17th Amendment: Ignored Anti-Federalist Warnings on the Senate

CATO VI (13 Dec 1787)

CATO IV (8 Nov 1787)

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Even the “LAW” isn’t Above the Law

Michael Boldin — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 18:46:29 +0000

In America, the law is king. But here’s what the schools don’t teach: even government’s laws aren’t above THE law. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land – acts beyond it are void. The Founders told us over and over: violating these so-called “laws” isn’t inherently wrong. As Patrick Henry put it, we’re “not bound to yield obedience.” And sometimes, it’s duty. This is the revolutionary case for disobedience that built America.

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Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

Archibald Maclaine – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Episode – No Such Thing as an Unconstitutional Law

Patrick Henry – Resolutions Against the Stamp act (1765)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Episode – REFUSE TO COMPLY: How the Stamp Act Was Nullified

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Thomas Aquinas – Commentary on Sentences (1250s)

Benjamin Franklin – Proposal for the Great Seal of the United States, [before 14 August 1776]

James Otis, Jr – Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved

Episode: This Wasn’t a Request. It was a Refusal

Thomas Paine – Common Sense (10 Jan 1776)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (before 4 Oct 1798)

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No Such Thing as an Unconstitutional Law

Michael Boldin — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 18:37:15 +0000

When government goes beyond its limits, those acts carry no legal force at all. They’re usurpations – STOLEN POWER. And they deserve to be treated that way too.

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George Mason’s remarks on annual elections for the Fairfax Independent Company (April 1775)

John Jay – An Address to the People of the State of New-York on the Subject of the Constitution (12 Apr 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Nov 1787)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part the Second (1792)

Thomas Sheridan – A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1789)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (30 July 1788)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

James Wilson – Speech Delivered in the Convention for the Province of Pennsylvania (Jan 1775)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

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They Said It Was for Defense. It Was for Control.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:33:06 +0000

From ancient Rome to the streets of Boston, a timeless formula has always demanded the same price: liberty. The founders didn’t discover this danger – they recognized the pattern. They had seen it in the history books, and they knew the tragedy in Boston was its predictable result.

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Thomas Gordon – A Discourse of Standing Armies (1722)

Joseph Warren – Massacre Day Oration (5 Mar 1772)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 75 (5 May 1722)

James Lovell – Massacre Day Oration (2 Apr 1771)

David Hume – The History of England vol 4 (1759)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 76 (12 May 1722)

TJ Martinell – Using Tyranny to Prevent Tyranny: A Warning on Standing Armies

John Adams – Instructions of Boston to its Representatives in the General Court (17 June 1768)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. XI (1767)

Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington (18 Jan 1790)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

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The Original Shutdown Wasn’t a Political Game. It Was Revolution.

Michael Boldin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:36:31 +0000

On October 20th, 1774, the First Continental Congress passed the Continental Association, a coordinated economic shutdown in response to relentless attacks by the British Empire, including the hated Coercive Acts. It was a four pronged strategy that included a revolutionary, local enforcement mechanism – taking over with self-government from the bottom up.

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Continental Association (20 Oct 1774)

Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress, &c., (15 Dec 1774)

No Obedience is Due: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774

The First Continental Congress: A Dangerous Journey Begins

John Adams – Notes of Debates in the Continental Congress, 26–27 September 1774.

Virginia Association of 1769: A Step Toward Continental Unity

The Massachusetts Government Act (20 May 1774)

John Adams – Novanglus I (23 Jan 1775)

EPISODE – This Wasn’t a Request. It Was a Refusal.

Abraham Lincoln – First Inaugural Address (4 Mar 1861)

TH Breen – American Insurgents, American Patriots

Alan Taylor – American Revolutions: A Continental History

Letters of a Westchester Farmer (16 Nov 1774)

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This Wasn’t a Request. It Was a Refusal.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:19:05 +0000

The First Continental Congress met in 1774 to respond to the hated Coercive Acts – Parliament’s brutal punishment for the Boston Tea Party. They had a decision: submit to tyranny, or resist. Their answer was the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress. On this episode, one of the most important and most forgotten documents of the American Revolution. A direct precursor to both the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

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Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

The Liberty Affair

Maharrey – The Continental Congress Adopts a Declaration of Colonial Rights

John Adams – Autobiography, Part I – In Congress 1774

Thomas Jefferson – Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

First Continental Congress, Declaration and Resolves

Declaration and Resolves

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The Revolution Didn’t Begin with a Shot. It Began with a Line in the Sand.

Michael Boldin — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:28:26 +0000

Life, liberty, and property weren’t just theories – they were the foundation of the American Revolution. John Locke wrote them, the Declaration adopted them, but Samuel Adams turned them into action. In 1772, he drafted an incredibly important, but almost totally forgotten document that led to the network of communication and resistance and laid the groundwork for independence.

Path to Liberty: September 26, 2025

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Samuel Adams – Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

The Formation of the Committees of Correspondence

Boston Petition (26 Oct 1772)

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity for Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)

The Boston Pamphlet

The Letter That Helped Start a Revolution

Bedford Responds to Boston Pamphlet

Virginia Resolutions Establishing A Committee of Correspondence (12 Mar 1773)

Boston Committee of Correspondence (9 Apr 1773)

Thomas Hutchinson – Letter to John Pownall (19 Apr 1773)

Daniel Leonard – Massachusettensis Letter III (2 Jan 1775)

Thomas Hutchinson – The history of the province of Massachusetts Bay vol III

John Adams – Letter to Samuel Adams (23 Feb 1780)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (12 Apr 1773)

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America Didn’t Escape the Crown. We Rebuilt the Throne.

Michael Boldin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 18:28:17 +0000

Same system. Different flag. The Revolutionaries Declared Independence in 1776 – and put their lives on the line to keep it. Yet today, the system we live under is virtually the same – in practice as the British system they fought a long war to secede from

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Sir Francis Bernard – Principles in Law and Polity Applied to the Government of the British Colonies in America (1764)

Sugar Act (5 Apr 1764)

Samuel Adams – Boston Merchants to the Massachusetts General Assembly (31 May 1764)

James Otis – The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (12 July 1764)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves (20 May 1765)

Declaratory Act (18 Mar 1766)

George Mason’s remarks on annual elections for the Fairfax Independent Company (April 1775)

Thomas Paine – The Crisis No. I (27 Dec 1776)

St. George Tucker – Blackstone’s Commentaries, Of the Several Forms of Government (1803)

John Jay – Address to the People of the State of New York (1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (4 Dec 1787)

George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

Archibald Maclaine – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (3 June 1788)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part the Second (1792)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia, Query VIII (1782)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (1798)

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BETRAYAL: The Constitution Wasn’t Stolen. It Was Surrendered.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:45:25 +0000

“A republic …if you can keep it.” We’ve all heard Benjamin Franklin’s famous “constitution day” line. But he wasn’t warning about government, or even the Constitution itself. He was warning us – about us. In his final speech at the Philadelphia Convention, Franklin also issued another warning – a dire prediction of how it would all end. In this episode, we dig into those warnings to understand what “keeping it” really meant to Franklin, Madison, Adams, Dickinson, and so many others who knew that words on paper would never be enough.

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Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (17 Sept 1787)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part the Second (1792)

John Jay – Address to the People of the State of New York (1788)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy (1513)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX (1784)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter To The Abbés Chalet And Arnaud (17 Apr 1787)

Papers of Dr. James McHenry on the Federal Convention of 1787

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This Isn’t a Political Contest. It’s the Tyranny Washington Predicted

Michael Boldin — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:44:27 +0000

George Washington didn’t retire quietly – in his Farewell Address, he warned America what was coming. He described how power-hungry factions would tear the country apart, poisoning debate, inviting corruption, and driving people to trade freedom for false security. The result? A “frightful despotism” – permanent tyranny rising from within. The most chilling part? His dire warning is the one almost everyone ignores today.

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Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

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INVASION: The Real Enemy Isn’t Foreign. It’s a War on YOU

Michael Boldin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:29:43 +0000

Most people hear “invasion” and think of foreign armies crossing borders. But to the Founders and Old Revolutionaries the biggest danger was something very different – and far closer to home. In this episode, we uncover their warnings about a threat few talk about today.

Path to Liberty: September 10, 2025

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Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Patrick Henry (14 Sept 1789)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (2 June 1787)

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The Dollar isn’t Money. It’s Fraud. Thomas Paine’s Brutal Takedown

Michael Boldin — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:11:09 +0000

Thomas Paine’s brutal demolition of a scam more dangerous than kings is one almost no one ever learns about. He showed how this scheme corrupts society, destroys trust, and unleashes evils that never end. On this episode of Path to Liberty, we dig into Paine’s forgotten warning about the oldest scam in America – and his verdict that still hits home today.

Path to Liberty: September 5, 2025

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Dissertations on Government (18 Feb 1786)

Letter to George Jacques Danton (6 May 1793)

Letter to the Abbe Raynal (1782)

Prospects on the Rubicon (1787)

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We the People vs We the States: The Constitution’s Real Purpose

Michael Boldin — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 19:08:46 +0000

Constitution vs Articles of Confederation? Instead of a government that acted through the states, the constitution created something radically different – and almost no one today understands what that change really was. But the Framers told us, over and over.

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James Wilson – Chisholm v Georgia (1794)

James Madison – Vices of the Political System of the United States (April 1787)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (3 June 1788)

Rufus King – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (21 Jan 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – New York Ratifying Convention (28 June 1788)

Episode – Tax Battle! Henry vs Hamilton on the Requisition System

Notes on Debates (28 Jan 1783)

Episode – TARIFFS: First Debate was Power, Not Trade

Grant of Temporary Power to Regulate Commerce (30 Apr 1784)

Elbridge Gerry to Thomas Jefferson (24 Aug 1784)

Charles Pinckney – Observations On The Plan of Government Submitted to The Federal Convention, in Philadelphia (28 May 1787)

William Davie – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (24 July 1788)

National Archives – Madison at the Federal Convention, 27 May–17 September 1787 (Editorial Note)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)

William Samuel Johnson – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (4 Jan 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 15 (1 Dec 1787)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

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The Constitutional Scam Nobody Told You About

Michael Boldin — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:53:06 +0000

Two vague words gave Congress unlimited power. It’s the greatest Constitutional scam in American history. In 1791, Alexander Hamilton laid down the blueprint. Jefferson, Madison, and others immediately called it a profound betrayal, warning that if Hamilton’s view won, every other limit on power would be meaningless. This was the turning point for the future of the republic – and the story they never want you to know.

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Alexander Hamilton – Report on the Subject of Manufactures (5 Dec 1791)

Thomas Jefferson’s Annotated Copy of Franklin’s Proposed Articles of Confederation (June–July 1775)

James Madison – Letter to James Robertson, Jr (20 Apr 1831)

James Madison – Federalist 41 (19 Jan 1788)

James Madison – Letter to Edmund Pendleton (21 Jan 1792)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the Constitutionality of Bounties to Encourage Manufacturing (Feb 1792)

James Madison – Bounty Payments for Cod Fisheries (6 Feb 1792)

William Branch Giles – Speech in the House (3 Feb 1792)

Hugh Williamson – Speech in the House (7 Feb 1792)

Thomas Jefferson – Memoranda of Conversations with the President (1 Mar 1792)

Brutus VI (27 Dec 1787)

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TARIFFS: First Debate was Power, Not Trade

Michael Boldin — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 18:43:55 +0000

Hamilton vs Madison and Jefferson. The first great economic debate under the Constitution was about tariffs, and it actually started under the Articles of Confederation. But the debate wasn’t about protectionism vs free trade. It was dueling forms of government intervention.

Path to Liberty: August 27, 2025

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James Madison – Import and Tonnage Duties (8 Apr 1789)

Journals of the Continental Congress (18 June 1783)

Journals of the Continental Congress (15 Feb 1786)

“Impost Begat Convention” – Albany and New York Confront the Ratification of the Constitution

Phillip W. Magness – The Problem of the Tariff in American Economic History, 1787–1934

James Madison – Import and Tonnage Duties (9 Apr 1789)

James Madison – Letter to Edmund Pendleton (19 Apr 1789)

Thomas Tudor Tucker (SC) – Duties on Imports (21 Apr 1789)

John Lawrence (NY) – Duties on Imports (21 Apr 1789)

Madison at the First Session of the First Federal Congress 1789

Tariff Act of 1789 (4 July 1789)

Alexander Hamilton – Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit (9 Jan 1790)

Tariff Act of 1790 (10 Aug 1790)

Alexander Hamilton – Report on the Subject of Manufactures (5 Dec 1791)

Tariff Act of 1792 (2 May 1792)

Thomas Jefferson – Final State of the Report on Commerce (16 Dec 1793)

Report on Commerce (Editorial Note)

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to George Washington (14 Apr 1794)

John Jay’s Treaty, 1794–95

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Who are the Militia? YOU.

Michael Boldin — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:21:15 +0000

George Mason said the militia consisted of the whole people. Today, that definition has been twisted, ignored, or totally forgotten. Talk about militia and most people will look at you like some kind of fringe nutjob. But the founders saw the militia as a highly armed and trained general population that was essential to the security and liberty of a free republic. In this episode, we dig into what that really meant, the Anti-Federalist warnings about congressional power over the militia, and how they absolutely called it.

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Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington (18 Jan 1790)

A Democratic Federalist (17 Oct 1787)

Tench Coxe – An American Citizen: An Examination of the Constitution of the United States IV (21 Oct 1788)

James Madison – Philadelphia Convention (23 Aug 1787)

The Constitution – Article II, Section 2

The Constitution – Article I, Section 8, Clauses 15-16

Bill of Rights – Amendment V

Bill of Rights – Amendment II

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 29 (10 Jan 1788)

John Smilie – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (6 Dec 1787)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

Virginia Ratification of the Constitution (27 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Joseph Priestly (19 June 1802)

Militia Act of 1903

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When States Had Backbone: The Militia Showdown They Never Teach

Michael Boldin — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 18:26:03 +0000

Does the federal government have unilateral power to call forth the militia? During the War of 1812, New England states not only said no, but they used the principles of the 10th Amendment to actively interpose and resist federal demands for mobilizing the militia.

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Declaration of War Against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (18 June 1812)

James Madison – to Congress (3 Jan 1810)

Gary Nobbs – Failure On All On All Fronts: The United States Army in the First Year of the War of 1812

Maharrey – The War of 1812 and State Sovereignty: New England’s Militia Resistance Explained

John Bach McMaster – A history of the people of the United States v3

Henry Dearborn – Letter to Gov. Caleb Strong (22 June 1812)

William Eustis – Letter to Gov. Caleb Strong (21 July 1812)

Gov. Caleb Strong to Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, and reply (1 Aug 1812)

Gov. Strong – Letter to William Eustis (5 Aug 1812)

Report and Resolutions of Connecticut on the Militia Question.

Gov. Roger Griswold – Letter to William Eustis (13 Aug 1812)

Connecticut – Report and Resolutions on the Militia Question (25 Aug 1812)

James Madison – Fourth Annual Message to Congress (4 Nov 1812)

Extract from Governor Chittenden’s Speech (23 Oct 1813)

Recall order of Gov. Chittenden (10 Nov 1813)

Benjamin Rush – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (15 Mar 1813)

James Monroe – Letter to James Madison (27 Dec 1813)

James Monroe – Letter to William B. Giles (17 Oct 1814)

Maharrey – States vs. Feds: The 10th Amendment Battle Over Conscription in the War of 1812

Daniel Webster – Speech in Congress (9 Dec 1814)

Connecticut on the Conscription Bill. (15 Nov 1814)

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You Don’t have Constitutional Rights. You Just Have Rights.

Michael Boldin — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 17:32:22 +0000

Rights are not gifts from government. They don’t come from documents – like a constitution or a bill of rights. You have rights because you exist. Government – of course – isn’t too big of a fan of that view. On this episode – we’ve diving in on the foundation: Natural rights

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Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part the Second (1792)

Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

James Otis, Jr – Of the Natural Rights of Colonists (1764)

Cicero – On the Laws (51 BC)

Aristotle – The Nicomachean Ethics (~330BC)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Vermont Constitution (8 July 1777)

Luther Martin – Philadelphia Convention (27 June 1787)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (5 Feb 1788)

Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Virginia (26 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Summary View (1774)

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The 9th Amendment Wasn’t an Afterthought. It Was a Firewall

Michael Boldin — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:37:08 +0000

While most people ignore the Ninth Amendment, those who don’t usually get it completely wrong. It isn’t a grant of additional federal power; it’s a rule of construction designed to explain its limits. On this episode, we uncover the forgotten history behind the ignored 9th Amendment.

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James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 Oct 1788)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 84 (28 May 1788)

Federal Farmer IV (12 Oct 1787)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (11 June 1788)

Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New York (26 July 1788)

Kurt Lash – The Lost Original Meaning of the Ninth Amendment

Ratification of the Constitution by the State of North Carolina

Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Virginia (26 June 1788)

Brion McClanahan

James Madison – Speech in the House Introducing Amendments to the Constitution (8 June 1789)

James Madison – Letter to George Washington (5 Dec 1789)

Amendment IX

Hardin Burnley – Letter to James Madison (28 Nov 1789)

Kurt Lash – The Inescapable Federalism of the Ninth Amendment

James Madison – Speech on the Bank Bill (2 Feb 1791)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

John Taylor – Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (1820)

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How to Beat the Empire: The Founders’ 4-Word Formula for Victory

Michael Boldin — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:23:47 +0000

The path to liberty isn’t flashy. It’s slow. Deliberate. Relentless. In 1767 – the Penman of the American Revolution found the key in ancient Rome. Four Latin words. One strategy – to topple an empire.

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Declaratory Act (18 Mar 1766)

John Adams – Diary (26 Apr 1766)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 8 (1767)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 7 (1767)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 1 (1767)

Sallust – Catiline’s War, 5-16 – translated by JC Rolfe (41 BC)

Sallust – The War with Jugurtha, 6-12 – translated by JC Rolfe (40 BC)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Thomas Jefferson to Rev. Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 12 (1767)

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The 10th Amendment Wasn’t an Add-On. It Was the Entire Point

Michael Boldin — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:27:57 +0000

The Founders didn’t secede from an empire over taxes or tea. They fought a war against unlimited, centralized power. The 10th Amendment was their answer. Power is not assumed. It must be granted. On this episode, learn about this forgotten foundation – from the revolution to ratification – and what it tells us about how to turn things around today.

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Declaratory Act (18 Mar 1766)

Boldin – The 10th Amendment: The Foundation of the Constitution

Thomas Paine – The Crisis I (23 Dec 1776)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

Pauline Maier – Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

Rufus King – Letter to James Madison (23 Jan 1788)

Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Massachusetts (6 July 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Edward Carrington (27 May 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (24 Aug 1789)

John Taylor of Caroline – Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (1820)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Elbridge Gerry (22 Aug 1789)

John Jay – An Address to the People of the State of New-York on the Subject of the Constitution (12 Apr 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Dec 1787)

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

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Supreme Court Power Grab! How Judges Stole Your Constitution

Michael Boldin — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:10:01 +0000

John Taylor smacked down Chief Justice John Marshall – who followed Alexander Hamilton’s playbook to twist the meaning of words – like the necessary and proper clause – to support a national bank. Taylor called it “construction,” and saw a catastrophe coming. He was no mere critic. He was prophetic.

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John Taylor – Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (1820)

Alexander Hamilton – Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank (23 Feb 1791)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

Episode – Necessary and Proper: The Big Lie That Unleashed Big Government

John Marshall -, 17 U.S. 316 (1819)

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IMPEACHMENT: The Truth They Never Teach About “High Crimes and Misdemeanors”

Michael Boldin — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 20:51:53 +0000

The framers built a tool to protect the Republic from serious abuses of public trust. A power much-broader than what virtually anyone teaches today. But Anti-Federalists like Patrick Henry warned that it was nothing more than a “sham.”

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Michael Stokes Paulsen – Taking Impeachment Seriously

The Constitution – A Transcription

Constitution: Article I, Section 2, Clause 5

Constitution: Article I, Section 3, Clause 6-7

Michael Stokes Paulsen – The Original Meaning of “High Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Part I

Raoul Berger – Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems (1974)

Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765)

You’re Fired: The Original Meaning of Presidential Impeachment

Philadelphia Convention (8 Sept 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 65 (7 Mar 1788)

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (3 June 1788)

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)

North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Michael Stokes Paulsen – Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist, and the Power of Impeachment

Michael Stokes Paulsen – The Constitutional Categories of Impeachable Offenses

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (18 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Spencer Roane (6 Sept 1819)

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Exposed: How Government Became a Legal Crime Syndicate

Michael Boldin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:34:26 +0000

Bastiat called it “legal plunder.” Spooner said their “sole purpose is power and plunder.” Today, they just call it government.

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Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Bastiat – The Law (1848)

Bastiat – Economic Sophisms, 2nd Series (1848)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (2 June 1787)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 36 (8 July 1721)

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (17 Oct 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Gideon Granger (13 Aug 1800)

John Taylor – An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States

Lysander Spooner – A New Banking System (1873)

Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

Lysander Spooner – No Treason II (1867)

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The TRAP They Saw Coming: 5 Mechanisms of Tyranny

Michael Boldin — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 18:20:58 +0000

The Anti-Federalists knew exactly where it would lead – unchecked power, endless taxes, and the death of the republic – and of liberty.

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George Mason – Objections to the Constitution (22 Nov 1787)

Elbridge Gerry – To the President of Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives of Massachusetts (18 Oct 1787)

Brutus VI (27 Dec 1787)

Brutus V (13 Dec 1787)

Elbridge Gerry – Letter to James Warren (18 Oct 1787)

Episode – Taxation Will Bleed You Dry: Anti-Federalist Warnings Ignored

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (20 June 1788)

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the new Constitution (1788)

Brutus XI (31 Jan 1788)

Cato IV (8 Nov 1787)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Dissent of the Minority of the Convention, of the state of Pennsylvania (12 Dec 1787)

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Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the new Constitution (1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Pennsylvania Dissent

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the new Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions (1788)

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You Can’t Comply Your Way Out of Tyranny

Michael Boldin — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:56:31 +0000

“A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.” Jefferson didn’t just say it – he meant it, even when he opposed the cause. Because the principle was bigger than the moment: resistance is what keeps government in check. This episode makes the case with hard truth from Jefferson, Spooner, Adams, Locke, and more – showing that liberty survives through backbone, not permission.

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Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Joseph Hawley – Letter to John Adams (25 July 1774)

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

Benjamin Franklin – Proposal for the Great Seal of the United States, [before 14 August 1776]

John Adams – Letter to William Tudor, Sr. (5 Apr 1818)

Episode – Rebellion to Tyrants: The Sermon that Sparked the Revolution

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)

Aristotle – Politics, Book V, Translated by Jowett (350 BC)

Cicero – On Moral Duties (44 BC)

John Locke – Two Treatises (1698)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 42 (26 Aug 1721)

Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith (13 Nov 1787)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 62 (20 Jan 1722)

Lysander Spooner – No Treason No VI (1870)

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The Real Enemies of America Aren’t Who You Think

Michael Boldin — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 18:49:51 +0000

The Founders warned us. We ignored them. These eight enemies aren’t at the gates – they’re already inside, destroying the Constitution and liberty – from within.

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John Adams – Thoughts on Government (Apr 1776)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Samuel Adams – Letter to James Warren (12 Feb 1779)

John Jay – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (27 Oct 1786)

Benjamin Rush – Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government (1786)

Samuel Adams – Valerius Poplicola, Boston Gazette (5 Oct 1772)

Abigail Adams – Letter to John Quincy Adams (1780)

Thomas Paine – The Crisis No. IV (13 Sept 1777)

Noah Webster – An Examination Into the Leading Principles of America (17 Oct 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Extract and Commentary Printed in the New York Minerva (2 May 1797)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

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You’ve Been Lied to Since Day One

Michael Boldin — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:25:46 +0000

Five constitutional truths they almost never teach. Because if they did, we wouldn’t live under the largest government in history.

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St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Edmund Randolph – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (12 Feb 1791)

James Otis Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

James Madison – Federalist 49 (2 Feb 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Nov 1787)

John Jay – An Address to the People of the State of New York (12 Apr 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress (15 Dec 1774)

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

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Liberty OR Empire: You Can’t Have Both

Michael Boldin — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 18:26:03 +0000

Every empire follows the same script, but this isn’t the version you’re used to. It’s not about overextension, debt, or even manipulating the money – those are all symptoms. The real disease? Consolidate power, crush liberty, and the rest is history. And now, it’s our turn. This episode is a warning for the ages about the story of empires. Because liberty must die for empires to thrive.

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Jean Louis De Lolme – The Constitution of England; Or, an Account of the English Government (1771)

Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy (1513)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 74 (28 Apr 1722)

John Dickinson – Fabius VII (26 Apr 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Joseph C. Cabell (2 Feb 1816)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Emmerich De Vattel – The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)

Brutus No. 1 (18 Oct 1787)

Episode – The Dangers of Consolidation: Anti-Federalist Brutus No. 1

The Works of Tacitus, vol. 1 – Gordon’s Discourses, Annals (1737)

John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters, Appendix (9 Nov 1723)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

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War Power Showdown: James Madison vs the Executive Branch

Michael Boldin — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 19:01:33 +0000

There is no situation – ever – where the President can unilaterally take the United States to war. No emergency. No exception. No loophole. James Madison made this absolutely clear, again and again. And when he became president, he followed that rule to the letter – not once, but twice – in the heat of war. In this episode: the father of the Constitution vs the modern myth of unilateral executive war power.

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Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 Apr 1798)

Helvidius No. 4 (14 Sept 1793)

Helvidius No. 1 (24 Aug 1793)

Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Episode – The “Declare War” Lie: What the Founders and Constitution REALLY Said

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to James McHenry (17 May 1798)

James McHenry – Letter to John Adams (18 May 1798)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on a Cabinet Meeting (15 May 1801)

The Big Lie: Jefferson and War with the Barbary States

Helvidius No. 2 (31 Aug 1793)

Maharrey – War Powers: The True History of James Madison, the Constitution and the War of 1812

Special Message to Congress (1 June 1812)

An Act for the Protection of the Commerce of the US against the Algerine Cruisers (3 Mar 1815)

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No Constitution Can Ever Fix This

Michael Boldin — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 18:13:18 +0000

Benjamin Franklin warned, “This can only end in despotism.” He knew that when the people themselves become corrupt, liberty doesn’t stand a chance. He wasn’t alone – founders and the great thinkers they learned from saw it over and over again: no matter the system, no matter the laws, once the people decay, tyranny follows. Guaranteed. And today, we’re on that same path – not because we’re being forced, but because we’ve chosen it. This episode is about the one corruption no constitution can fix: the corruption of the people themselves.

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Benjamin Franklin – Letter To The Abbés Chalet And Arnaud (17 Apr 1787)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (20 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX (1784)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

John Adams – Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts (11 Oct 1798)

Samuel Adams – Valerius Poplicola, Boston Gazette (5 Oct 1772)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. XI (1767)

The Works of Tacitus, vol. 1 – Gordon’s Discourses, Annals (Books 1-3)

Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy (1513)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (17 Sept 1787)

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The Day Rebellion Became Law: June 12, 1776

Michael Boldin — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:44:32 +0000

On June 12, 1776, Virginia made rebellion law. They didn’t ask for permission – they said take it, whether government likes it or not. In this episode, we’re digging into a forgotten founding document: the Virginia Declaration of Rights – where power comes from, why governments exist, and what the people have the right to do when it all goes off the rails.

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Maharrey – Setting a Foundation: The Virginia Declaration of Rights

Preamble and Resolution of the Virginia Convention (15 May 1776)

Episode: The Forgotten Resolutions That Actually Started Independence

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – The Principles of Natural and Politic Law (1747)

Kevin Gutzman – Virginia Declaration of Rights by George Mason

Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington (18 Jan 1790)

Episode – Militia vs Standing Army: The Founders’ View

Bob Ruppert – George Mason: Author of Rights

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward (3 Apr 1825)

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National Debt: WEAPON to Destroy Freedom Exposed

Michael Boldin — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:09:56 +0000

Again and again, the leading minds of the American founding warned that debt would lead to corruption, war, tyranny – and collapse. Today, that curse is bigger than ever – and it’s still growing. In this episode, you’ll hear what the founders actually said – warnings we can’t afford to ignore any longer.

Path to Liberty: June 6, 2025

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James Otis, Jr. – Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists. In a Letter to a Noble Lord (4 Sept 1765)

George Washington – Fifth Annual Message to Congress (3 Dec 1793)

Tench Coxe – An American Citizen: An Examination of the Constitution of the United States IV (21 Oct 1788)

John Taylor of Caroline – An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814)

Benjamin Rush – Letter to James Madison (27 Feb 1790)

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution vol. 2

Destutt de Tracy – A Treatise on Political Economy, Jefferson Translation (1816)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Nathaniel Macon (19 Aug 1821)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to George Washington (9 Sept 1792)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Destutt de Tracy (26 Dec 1820)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to John Taylor (28 May 1816)

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The Forgotten Resolutions That Actually Started Independence

Michael Boldin — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 19:10:28 +0000

On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee stood before the Continental Congress with a resolution declaring that the united colonies were free and independent states, and that all political connection between them and Great Britain was “totally dissolved.” It also called for foreign alliances and a plan that would become the Articles of Confederation. The Lee Resolution was the culmination of a series of revolutionary measures that had already begun secession from the British Empire. This is the story behind the Declaration of Independence that most people never learn about.

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May Resolution – Second Continental Congress (10 May 1776)

NCPedia – The Halifax Resolves

Episode – First for Independence: The Halifax Resolves of 1776

John Penn – Letter to John Adams (17 Apr 1776)

Resolutions of the Virginia Convention Calling for Independence (15 May 1776)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to John Adams (18 May 1776)

Preamble to Resolution on Independent Governments (15 May 1776)

John Adams – Letter to James Warren (15 May 1776)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Thomas Ludwell Lee (27 May 1776)

John Adams – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (4 June 1776)

Resolution of Richard Henry Lee – Journals of the Continental Congress (7 June 1776)

Edward Rutledge – Letter to John Jay (8 June 1776)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes of Proceedings in the Continental Congress (8 June 1776)

Journal of the Continental Congress (10 June 1776)

Journal of the Continental Congress (11 June 1776)

Journal of the Continental Congress (12 June 1776)

John Adams – Letter to Abigail Adams (3 July 1776)

John Adams – 2nd Letter to Abigail Adams (3 July 1776)

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TREASON: How Patrick Henry Ignited the Revolution

Michael Boldin — Fri, 30 May 2025 18:58:06 +0000

In 1765, after the British passed the Stamp Act, a 29-year-old freshman legislator in Virginia named Patrick Henry pushed back – hard. His Virginia Resolves didn’t just protest a tax; they rejected Parliament’s power outright and called for resistance. “If this be treason…” he thundered in support of them. When government tried to silence the message, Henry stood firm – and the other colonies joined in, publishing every single word. On this episode, learn the defiance, the suppression, and the spark that lit the fuse.

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Wolverton – Patrick Henry: “If This Be Treason!”

Patrick Henry’s Resolutions Against the Stamp Act

William Wirt – Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (1817)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on Patrick Henry (Before 12 Apr 1812)

Rhode Island Stamp Act Resolves (15 Sept 1765)

William Wirt – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 July 1815)

Boldin – Patrick Henry’s Virginia Resolves: Bedrock Principles of American Liberty

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Judicial TYRANNY: Jefferson’s Four Forgotten Warnings

Michael Boldin — Wed, 28 May 2025 18:37:25 +0000

Thomas Jefferson sounded the alarm over the greatest threat to the Constitution and your liberty: the federal judiciary. On this episode, learn his four warnings – consolidation is death to freedom, judges are just as corrupt and power-hungry as any politician, the courts drive centralization, and judicial supremacy turns a “land of the free” into an oligarchy ruled by black robes.

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Joseph C. Cabell

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Gideon Granger (13 Aug 1800)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (20 Dec 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sept 1820)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 47 (7 Oct 1721)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to the Abbe Arnoux (19 July 1789)

EPISODE – Jury Nullification: The People’s Secret Weapon Against Tyranny

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 33 (17 June 1721)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Nathaniel Macon (23 Nov 1821)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Thomas Ritchie (25 Dec 1820)

Thomas Jefferson – to William Johnson (4 Mar 1823)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (Before 4 Oct 1798)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Spencer Roane (6 Sept 1819)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Spencer Roane (9 Mar 1821)

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BLASTING Hamilton’s National Bank: John Taylor’s Forgotten Takedown

Michael Boldin — Fri, 23 May 2025 18:56:13 +0000

In 1794, John Taylor of Caroline launched a direct assault on Alexander Hamilton’s entire financial regime – the national bank, the debt, the funding system, the whole machine. He called it a “political papacy,” a new aristocracy built on paper money, perpetual debt, and lawless power. On this episode, learn about Taylor’s forgotten takedown of the system that laid the foundation for the largest government in history.

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John Taylor – Letter to George Washington (14 Jan 1794)

John Taylor – An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures (1794)

Gordon S. Wood – Empire of Liberty

NPS – First Bank of the United States

Alexander Hamilton – Report on a National Bank (13 Dec 1790)

St. Louis Fed – A Chapter in the History of Central Banking

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to Robert Morris (30 Apr 1781)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to George Washington (9 Sept 1792)

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“For Your Safety” – The Lie That Destroys Liberty

Michael Boldin — Wed, 21 May 2025 19:02:02 +0000

From ancient empires to modern regimes, the story never changes: every government knows nothing expands power faster than fear. Fear is the tool, the trigger, the weapon – and it’s always the excuse for crushing liberty. In this episode, you’ll hear warnings from Founders, revolutionaries, and the great thinkers they learned from about how fear and the promise of safety are used to justify power, silence dissent, and lay the groundwork for oppression.

Path to Liberty: May 21, 2025

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Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 15 (4 Feb 1721)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1683)

James Madison – Philadelphia Convention (29 June 1787)

Plato – The Republic, Jowett’s Translation (400-350 BC)

Aristotle – The Politics Vol. 1, Jowett’s Translation (335-323 BC)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 7 (17 Dec 1720)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 12 (1767)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)

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Law as a Weapon: How Tyrants Say it’s “Legal” to Crush You

Michael Boldin — Fri, 16 May 2025 17:13:27 +0000

The biggest crimes against liberty aren’t committed in the shadows – they happen in broad daylight, all dressed up as “law,” “justice,” and the “public good.” When the law itself becomes a weapon, no one is safe. In this episode, we expose the warnings we’ve ignored for far too long and reveal how tyranny hides behind the mask of legality.

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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)

Federal Farmer No. IV (12 Oct 1787)

Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince (1513)

John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters No. 9 (31 Dec 1720)

John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters No. 13 (21 Jan 1721)

Episode – Necessary and Proper: The Big Lie That Unleashed Big Government

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1683)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (30 July 1788)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 57 (16 Dec 1721)

Jean Barbeyrac – Grotius – The Rights of War and Peace vol. 2 (1724)

Cicero – On Moral Duties/De Officiis (44 BC)

Episode – Lysander Spooner: Radical Truths on Tyranny and the Constitution

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Silenced! The Founders’ WAR on Cancel Culture EXPOSED!

Michael Boldin — Wed, 14 May 2025 18:51:06 +0000

The first step to tyranny is always the same: silence your opposition. Once they take your voice, everything else comes easy. That’s exactly what the British Empire did throughout the American Revolution. Using seditious libel as their legal foundation, they repeatedly attacked the rights to speak, print, and assemble. On this episode, we expose how what we now call cancel culture was nothing new. The Founders lived under it. And they fought back.

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Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 15 (4 Feb 1721)

John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters No 100 (27 Oct 1722)

Cornell Law – star chamber proceedings

Donald A. Dripps – The “Cruel and Unusual” Legacy of the Star Chamber

1641: The Act for the Abolition of the Court of Star Chamber

Episode – Martyr for Liberty: Algernon Sidney and the American Revolution

New York Restraining Act (5 June 1767)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 1 (1767)

Massachusetts Circular Letter (11 Feb 1768)

From the Earl of Hillsborough (22 Apr 1768)

JL Bell – The Vote on the Circular Letter at Last

Gov. Bernard – Letter to Lord Hillsborough (June 1768)

Paul Revere – Sons of Liberty Bowl (1768)

Lord Hillsborough – Circular Letter to the Governors in America (21 Apr 1768)

Maharrey – Virginia Association of 1769: A Step Toward Continental Unity

George Washington – Diary (17 May 1769)

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

WBUR: Isaiah Thomas snuck his printing press out of Boston.

American Antiquarian Society – John Hancock performs his patriotic duty

Massachusetts Spy (3 May 1775)

Gerald Holland – The Seizure of the Virginia Gazette, or Norfolk Intelligencer

Lord Dumore – Letter to Lord Hillsborough, Naval Docs Vol 2 (5 Oct 1775)

The public reaction to John Dickinson’s Farmer’s letters

Remembering John Dickinson: “One of the great worthies of the revolution”

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The TEA ACT: A Trap “WORSE THAN DEATH”

Michael Boldin — Fri, 09 May 2025 18:34:13 +0000

It wasn’t about tea. It was about power – the principle that Parliament could tax the colonies without consent. Even a “trifling sum” meant surrender. The Tea Act was a trap, a test of obedience. And the Revolutionaries chose resistance. On this episode, we break the lie wide open: cheaper tea wasn’t peace – it was submission. And they refused to drink it.

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Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress, &c. (15 Dec 1774)

Tea Act: History.com

Episode – The Forgotten Law That Caused the American Revolution

JL Bell – Why all the Fuss over Tea?

David Ramsay – The History of the American Revolution, vol. 1 (1789)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to William Franklin (14 Feb 1773)

Tea Act Transcription

The Works of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. VI

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VII (1767)

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution, Chapter II

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Thomas Cushing (4 June 1773)

George Washington – Letter to Bryan Fairfax (20 July 1774)

Resolutions Of The Town Of Boston (5 Nov 1773)

Benjamin Rush – Hamden, Pennsylvania Journal (20 Oct 1773)

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The Brutal Truth: You Don’t Live in a “Land of the Free”

Michael Boldin — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:59:05 +0000

WHO ARE A FREE PEOPLE? Freedom doesn’t come from good intentions or survival by luck – it depends on a government so tightly checked that any unconstitutional step meets instant resistance. Not later. Right now. That’s the difference between real liberty and servitude with nicer packaging.

Path to Liberty: May 7, 2025

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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VII (1767)

John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters No. 115 (9 Feb 1723)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 33 (17 June 1721)

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – The Principles of Natural and Politic Law (1747)

John Locke – Two Treatises on Civil Government (1689)

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (16 Nov 1798)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Episode – How to Enforce the Constitution: Whether the Government Likes it or Not

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Jean Louis De Lolme – The Constitution of England; Or, an Account of the English Government (1771)

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YOU’RE NOT FREE YET: The Brutal Price You Must Pay!

Michael Boldin — Fri, 02 May 2025 18:14:34 +0000

Going from the largest government in history to a real land of the free won’t be quick or easy. The Founders and old Revolutionaries told us the truth: there is no silver bullet. Liberty demands effort, dedication, fortitude, and perseverance. In this episode, you’ll hear from Jefferson, Adams, Otis, Paine, and others on the courage it takes to move from tyranny to liberty.

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Thomas Paine – The Crisis No. IV (13 Sept 1777)

James Otis, Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

Benjamin Franklin – Plain Truth (17 Nov 1747)

Joseph Hawley – Letter to John Adams (25 July 1774)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 62 (20 Jan 1722)

Cicero – On Moral Duties (44 BC)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (9 Dec 1771)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part the Second (1792)

Patrick Henry – Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death (23 Mar 1775)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

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First They Lie. Then They Crush You.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 19:34:33 +0000

Politics is the science of fraud – and politicians are its professors. Richard Henry Lee wasn’t warning about a few bad apples; he was calling out the entire system. In this episode, learn about three major ways that fraud has always defined politics, drawing straight from the Founders and the thinkers they studied. They saw it clearly: a system built on lies, fear, bribery, and corruption.

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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)

The Works of Tacitus, vol. 1 – Gordon’s Discourses, Annals (Books 1-3)

Machiavelli – The Prince (1532)

John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters No. 17 (18 Feb 1721)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)

Jean Louis De Lolme – The Constitution of England; Or, an Account of the English Government (1771)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (2 June 1787)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Richard Henry Lee – letter to Thomas Lee Shippen (21 Sept 1791)

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Are You Falling for the Oldest Trick in Tyranny’s Playbook?

Michael Boldin — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 18:48:06 +0000

They call it “just this once.” But that’s how it always begins. One unconstitutional act becomes a precedent – and suddenly, lawless power becomes routine. From Tacitus to Paine, Dickinson to Washington, history has screamed the warning: precedent is how tyranny becomes law. In this episode, we trace the oldest trick in the tyrant’s playbook – and why free people must resist it before it’s too late.

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St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part the Second (1792)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp act (1765)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Niccolo Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy (1531)

John Locke – Two Treatises of Civil Government (1698)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Tacitus – Annals, Book 11, Chapter 24 (AD 115-117)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No VI (1767)

Dickinson – Letter VII

Dickinson Letter IX

Dickinson Letter XI

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part the Second (1792)

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The Founders’ Warning: Why THIS Power Spells Tyranny!

Michael Boldin — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 20:14:29 +0000

The Founders didn’t just fight tyranny – they defined exactly what it was: arbitrary power. In this episode, we dig into how they viewed it, why they saw it as the ultimate threat to liberty, and how it shaped everything from the Declaration of Independence to the creation of written constitutions. Drawing from Otis, Adams, Jefferson, Locke, and more, we break down the core principle behind the American Revolution – and why every step beyond the Constitution isn’t just wrong – it’s a lawless recipe for disaster.

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James Otis, Jr – Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762)

Harry Lee – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

Jowett’s 1885 Translation of Aristotle – The Politics, Book V (4th century BC)

John Locke – Two Treatises of Civil Government (1689)

James Otis Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

John Adams – Letter to William Tudor, Sr (29 Mar 1817)

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

John Jay – Address to the People of Great Britain (21 Oct 1774)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

Thomas Jefferson – “Original Rough Draft” (11 June – 4 July 1776)

Thomas Paine – The Crisis No. III (25 Apr 1777)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. XI (1767)

James Harrington – The Commonwealth of Oceana (1656)

Samuel Adams, James Otis, Jr. – Massachusetts Circular Letter (11 Feb 1768)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

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IT WAS GUN CONTROL: Not Taxes.

Michael Boldin — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 18:44:43 +0000

They want you to think the War for Independence was about taxes. The truth? The fighting started with gun control. On April 19, 1775 – at Lexington and Concord – the patriots fought back against long-standing usurpations of power, now being enforced through an aggressive British disarmament campaign. This is the story they never teach in government-run schools.

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Maharrey – British Seizure of Gunpowder Leads to “Powder Alarm”

Episode – It was Gun Control: The Powder Alarm and the Road to Independence

TJ Martinell – How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution

Episode – Blueprint for Liberty: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774

Maharrey – Massachusetts Provincial Congress Defies Parliament

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

Dave Kopel – How The British Gun Control Program Precipitated The American Revolution

Order of the King, in Council (19 Oct 1774)

Gen. Gage – Letter to Lord Dartmouth (15 Dec 1774)

GunCite – N.H. Gazette and Historical Chron. (13 Jan 1775)

The Joint Address of both Houses to the King on the Disturbances in North America (9 Feb 1775)

Lord Dartmouth – Letter to Gen. Gage (27 Jan 1775)

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)

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Taxation Will Bleed You Dry: Anti-Federalist Warnings Ignored

Michael Boldin — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 19:05:33 +0000

More than a century before the 16th Amendment and the IRS, the Anti-Federalists warned that the Constitution’s taxing power would be used to bleed the people dry and consolidate power. Luther Martin, George Mason, Cato, and others saw it coming – unlimited taxation, oppressive enforcement, and economic subjugation. We ignored them. Now we live it.

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Episode – Tax Battle! Henry vs Hamilton on the Requisition System

Patrick Henry – Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Boldin – Taxing Power: Luther Martin’s Anti-Federalist Warnings

Luther Martin – Genuine Information VI (15 Jan 1788)

Cato VI (13 Dec 1787)

Elbridge Gerry – Letter to James Warren (18 Oct 1787)

The Address and reasons of dissent of the minority of the convention, of the state of Pennsylvania (12 Dec 1787)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (3 June 1788)

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General Welfare: You’ve Been Lied to. Here’s the Proof.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:05:46 +0000

James Madison called it absurd to say Congress may do whatever it wants under the general Welfare clause. But that’s exactly how politicians treat it today – as a blank check for nearly unlimited power. In this episode, you’ll learn the original meaning of the clause, as understood when the Constitution was ratified. You’ll also hear warnings from Madison and Thomas Jefferson about what would happen if that meaning was ignored – and how their predictions match the government we live under today.

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Constitution for the United States

Rob Natelson – The General Welfare Clause and the Public Trust: An Essay in Original Understanding

James Madison – Letter to James Robertson, Jr (20 Apr 1831)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Albert Gallatin (before 6 June 1817)

James Madison – Federalist 41 (19 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

James Madison – Speech in the House of Representatives (6 Feb 1792)

James Madison – Letter to Edmund Pendleton (21 Jan 1792)

James Madison – Speech on the Bank Bill (2 Feb 1791)

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TYRANNY: Legislating from the Bench is Bad – But THIS is Even Worse

Michael Boldin — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 18:41:02 +0000

The Constitution draws a line between the powers of each branch of the federal government. Just like “legislating from the bench,” when Congress hands its lawmaking power to the executive, it’s not just bad policy – it’s unconstitutional. It breaks the separation of powers and leads down the road to total tyranny. In this episode, we dig into the forgotten cornerstone of the Constitution: the non-delegation doctrine.

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Constitution for the United States

Nick Szabo – Origins of the Non-Delegation Doctrine

John Locke – Two Treatises of Civil Government (1689)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

James Wilson – State House Yard Speech (6 Oct 1787)

Luke Wake – Taking Non-Delegation Doctrine Seriously

Montesquieu – The Spirit of Laws, Vol. 1, Book XI

Episode – Anti-Federalist vs Federalist CLASH: Montesquieu and Separation of Powers

James Madison, Speech Introducing Proposed Constitutional Amendments (8 June 1789)

Ilan Wurman – Non-Delegation at the Founding

Michael Rappaport – A Judicially Manageable Nondelegation Doctrine

Aaron Gordon = Non-delegation

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

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The Forgotten Warning That Predicted America’s Collapse

Michael Boldin — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 18:18:44 +0000

Over 200 years ago, Noah Webster warned that the greatest threat to truth and liberty wasn’t foreign enemies – it was something far worse, from within. In this episode, we explore his powerful, forgotten warning about human nature, blind loyalty, and the internal decay that has destroyed free nations throughout history.

Path to Liberty: April 4, 2025

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George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

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TREASON: The Untold Truth about Unconstitutional Power

Michael Boldin — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 18:16:01 +0000

TREASON. INVASION. CONQUEST. The Founders didn’t see unconstitutional power as just bad policy – they saw it as a kind of war against the people. In this episode, we dig deep into forgotten principles from Locke, Sidney, Paine, and others who shaped the Revolution. Because when government violates the Constitution, it’s not just a mistake – it’s an attack on your liberty.

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St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part the Second (1792)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

John Jay – An Address to the People of the State of New-York on the Subject of the Constitution (12 Apr 1788)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (2 June 1787)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 25 (15 Apr 1721)

Cicero – Treatise on the Commonwealth (54 BC)

Vattel – The Law of Nations (1758)

Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – The Principles of Natural and Politic Law (1747)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 33 (17 June 1721)

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How to Protect Shipping Routes without Shredding the Constitution

Michael Boldin — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 18:31:37 +0000

Defending ocean trade routes doesn’t require shredding the Constitution. When French warships were seizing hundreds of American vessels, President John Adams didn’t panic. He followed the Constitution – deferred to Congress over a dozen times – and still got the job done. In this episode, learn the forgotten – and completely ignored – history behind war powers and the Constitution, and how it all played out in the so-called Quasi-War with France.

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Maharrey – War Powers: The True History of John Adams and the Quasi-War with France

John Adams – Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Relations with France (16 May 1797)

John Jay – Charge to the Grand Jury, the Circuit Court for the District of Virginia (22 May 1793)

An Act to prevent citizens of the United States from Privateering against nations to amity with, or against citizens of the United States (14 June 1797)

An Act providing a Naval Armament (1 July 1797)

John Adams – First Annual Address to Congress (22 Nov 1797)

John Adams – Special Message to Congress (19 Mar 1798)

An Act to establish an Executive department, to be denominated the Department of the Navy (30 Apr 1798)

James McHenry – Letter to Alexander Hamilton (12 May 1798)

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to James McHenry (17 May 1798)

James McHenry – Letter to John Adams (18 May 1798)

An Act to declare the treaties heretofore concluded with France, no longer obligatory on the United States (7 July 1798)

An Act further to protect the Commerce of the United States (9 July 1798)

An Act vesting the power of retaliation, in certain cases, in the President of the United States (3 Mar 1799)

An Act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France, and the dependence thereof (27 Feb 1800)

An Act to continue in force “An act to authorize the defence of the merchant vessels of the United States against French depredations” (22 Apr 1800)

John Adams – Letter to John Marshall (4 Sept 1800)

Bas v Tingy (1800)

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Lysander Spooner vs the Supreme Court: The Judicial Supremacy Lie

Michael Boldin — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:05:00 +0000

“An unconstitutional judicial decision is no more binding than an unconstitutional legislative act.” With that one line, Lysander Spooner demolished the dangerous myth of judicial supremacy – the idea that a court’s opinion becomes law simply because judges say so. In this episode, we break down Spooner’s powerful insights and warnings, echoing the words of many Founders who’ve been long forgotten today. The truth is simple and radical: the Constitution is the supreme law of the land – not the opinions of unelected judges. Judicial supremacy isn’t just unconstitutional. It’s tyranny.

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Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

John Marshall – Marbury v Madison (1803)

Episode – Marbury v. Madison Exposed: The Shocking Truth Behind Judicial Review

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sept 1820)

Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

John Jay – Extracts of the Minutes of the United States Circuit Court for New York (5 Apr 1792)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Spencer Roane (6 Sept 1819)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (1 Dec 1787)

Episode – Oath vs Censorship: Jefferson on the Duty to Stop Unconstitutional Laws

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Alien Enemies Act: Why James Madison DIDN’T Oppose it

Michael Boldin — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:40:48 +0000

“With respect to alien enemies, no doubt has been intimated as to the federal authority over them.” That was James Madison, referring to the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 – an act he saw as constitutional while rejecting the rest of the Alien and Sedition Acts. In this episode, you’ll learn what the act actually says, why Madison defended it while opposing the others, and how narrowly it applies in practice.

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An Act Respecting Alien Enemies (6 July 1798)

John Jay – Opinion, the Circuit Court for the District of Virginia: Ware v. Hylton (7 June 1793)

Blackstone’s Commentaries – Book 1, Chapt 10 – Of the People, Whether Aliens, Denizens, or Natives (1765)

Emmerich De Vattel – The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)

Episode – The “Declare War” Lie: What the Founders and Constitution REALLY Said

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The “Declare War” Lie: What the Founders and Constitution REALLY Said

Michael Boldin — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:30:07 +0000

Almost every politician and so-called expert wants you to believe the president can unilaterally take the United States to war – just as long as they don’t call it a war. But that’s not what the Constitution says, that’s not how the Founders understood it, and that’s not how Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson, or Madison followed it in practice. In this episode, you’ll learn the truth about what the Constitution really means by DECLARE WAR

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Constitution: A Transcription

Thomas Jefferson – Message to Congress (6 Dec 1805)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (11 Dec 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Pacificus No. 1 (29 June 1793)

James Madison – Helvidius No. 1 (24 Aug 1793)

James Madison – Helvidius No. 4 (14 Sept 1793)

Episode – Constitution: The Wisest Part According to James Madison

George Mason – Philadelphia Convention (17 Aug 1787)

St. George Tucker – Blackstone’s Commentaries

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 Apr 1798)

Pierce Butler – South Carolina Legislature (16 Jan 1788)

John Jay – Federalist No. 4 (4 Nov 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Johnson (12 June 1823)

Maharrey – War Powers: The True History of James Madison, the Constitution and the War of 1812

Thomas Sheridan – A Complete Dictionary of the English Language (1789)

Samuel Johnson – Dictionary of the English Language (1773)

George Washington – Letter to Timothy Pickering (5 Mar 1795)

George Washington – 5th Annual Message to Congress (3 Dec 1793)

John Adams – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (14 June 1813)

John Adams – Letter to John Marshall (4 Sept 1800)

James Madison – Special Message to Congress on the Foreign Policy Crisis – War Message (1 June 1812)

John Marshall – Talbot v Seeman (1801)

Prakash – Unleashing the Dogs of War: What the Constitution Means by ‘Declare War’

Justice Samuel Chase – Bas v Tingy (1800)

John Locke – Second Treatise Chapters 01-03 (1690)

Emer De Vattel – The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law (1758)

John Adams – Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Relations with France (16 May 1797)

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to James McHenry (17 May 1798)

Maharrey – War Powers: The True History of John Adams and the Quasi-War with France

Boldin – War Powers: The True History of Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates

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The Supremacy Clause Hoax: How We Became What the Founders Fought

Michael Boldin — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 19:10:22 +0000

Federal law is NOT always supreme – far from it. That’s a myth ripped straight from the British system that sparked the American Revolution. This episode exposes the Supremacy Clause Hoax – one of the worst distortions of the Constitution, pushing the idea that the federal government holds virtually unlimited power. The Founders fought a long, bloody war to escape that very system – yet today, it’s being embraced once again.

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Maharrrey – America Embraces the Tyranny its Founders Fought to Reject

Episode – The Forgotten Law That Caused the American Revolution

State Court Report

Cornell Law – Supremacy Clause

Mark Pulliam – Tennessee Star

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Maharrey – The Myth of Absolute Federal Supremacy

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

Episode – How to Enforce the Constitution: Whether the Government Likes it or Not

Centinel V (4 Dec 1787)

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The Forgotten Law That Caused the American Revolution

Michael Boldin — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 18:14:14 +0000

On March 18, 1766, the British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act – but on the very same day, they passed something far more dangerous: the Declaratory Act. This law claimed Parliament had the power to make laws “in all cases whatsoever” over the American colonies and people. It wasn’t just about taxes or representation – it was about unlimited, centralized power. Decades later, James Madison called this the “fundamental principle” behind independence. John Hancock, Thomas Paine, John Dickinson, and Thomas Jefferson all saw it as the true cause of the Revolution. But they never teach this in government-run schools.

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Episode – REFUSE TO COMPLY: How the Stamp Act Was Nullified

Declaratory Act (18 March 1766)

Benjamin Franklin – Examination before the Committee of the Whole of the House of Commons (13 Feb 1766)

John Adams – Diary (Apr 1766)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania VIII (1767)

John Adams – Notes for an oration at Braintree (Spring 1772)

Joseph Warren – A List of Infringements and Violations of Rights (20 Nov 1772)

Benjamin Franklin – Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One (11 Sept 1773)

Episode – Benjamin Franklin’s Rules for Bringing Down Empires

Samuel Adams – Letter to Joseph Hawley (4 Oct 1773)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Samuel Adams (13 Oct 1773)

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress (15 Dec 1774)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Joseph Galloway (25 Feb 1775)

John Dickinson, Thomas Jefferson – Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (6 July 1775)

Thomas Paine – The Crisis I (23 Dec 1776)

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3 Simple Steps to DESTROY the Constitution (They’re Already Doing It!)

Michael Boldin — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 21:32:59 +0000

Destroying the Constitution and liberty might be easier than you think. In this episode, learn exactly how it could happen – hypothetically speaking, of course. It only takes three simple steps, and by the end, you will hopefully see just how dangerously effective this method can be. Buckle up – this one hits close to home!

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Episode – Necessary and Proper: The Big Lie That Unleashed Big Government

United States v. Miller (1939)

Episode – A Weapon to Destroy Freedom: Founders’ Forgotten Warnings

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Abigail Adams (11 Sept 1804)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 Apr 1819)

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The Forgotten Boston Massacre Speech They Wanted to Silence

Michael Boldin — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:49:57 +0000

In 1771, James Lovell stood before a massive crowd in Boston to deliver a speech commemorating the first anniversary of the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1770. His oration left no room for compromise: warning against standing armies, defending the people’s right to bear arms, declaring freedom as a birthright, and rejecting Parliament’s authority over the colonies entirely. This episode explores James Lovell’s powerful speech, its aftermath, and a background story about Paul Revere’s role in the commemoration of the Boston Massacre.

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Dave Benner – Today in History: The Massacre in Boston

JL Bell – “The Town make choice of a proper Person to deliver an Oration”

Stuart McManus – Late-Humanism and Revolutionary Eloquence: James Lovell and His 1771 Boston Massacre Oration

James Lovell – Massacre Day Oration (2 Apr 1771)

Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England in Four Books, vol. 1

Thomas Jefferson – Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

Thomas Hutchinson – Letter to John Pownall (18 Apr 1771)

Dave Roos – History.com

Boston Gazette (11 Mar 1771)

Previous Massacre Day Episodes

John Hancock (1774)

Joseph Warren (1772)

Benjamin Church (1773)

Joseph Warren (1775)

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Necessary and Proper: The Big Lie That Unleashed Big Government

Michael Boldin — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 19:24:23 +0000

“Undefined, unbounded, and immense power” – that’s what anti-federalists warned we’d eventually get under the Necessary and Proper Clause. Today, it’s easily one of the most twisted and abused parts of the Constitution. In this episode, learn about three key views of the clause: the modern view, which began with Alexander Hamilton and John Marshall; the strictly limited view from James Madison and Thomas Jefferson; and a middle ground from one of the clause’s authors, Edmund Randolph.

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John Williams – New York Ratifying Convention (26 June 1788)

Old Whig II (17 Oct 1787)

Archibald Maclaine – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (4 Dec 1787)

James Madison – Federalist 44 (25 Jan 1788)

Brutus V (13 Dec 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Opinion on the Constitutionality of an Act to Establish a Bank (23 Feb 1791)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

James Madison – Speech on the Bank Bill (2 Feb 1791)

Edmund Randolph – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank (12 Feb 1791)

Necessary and Proper – an Overview

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (17 June 1788)

Rob Natelson – The Agency Law Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause

John Marshall -, 17 U.S. 316 (1819)

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (17 June 1788)

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Unconstitutional Laws? Nullification: THE Remedy They Don’t Want You to Know

Michael Boldin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:17:52 +0000

Nullification is THE rightful remedy for ALL unconstitutional acts – that’s how Thomas Jefferson put it. But he was far from alone. In this episode, get the essential introduction to nullification, highlighting five core principles behind its foundation. This is absolutely crucial if we’re ever going to get back on the path to the constitution and liberty.

Path to Liberty: February 26, 2025

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George Mason – Virginia Declaration of Rights (12 June 1776)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Nov 1787)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

John Jay – An Address to the People of the State of New York (15 Apr 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions – Passed by by General Assembly (10 Nov 1798)

John Marshall – Marbury v Madison (1803)

James Otis Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

Thomas Jefferson – Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Declaration And Resolves Of The First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

James Madison – Virginia Resolutions (21 Dec 1798)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Thomas Jefferson’s Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (Before 4 Oct 1798)

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Marbury v. Madison Exposed: The Shocking Truth Behind Judicial Review

Michael Boldin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:30:37 +0000

Almost everything in modern “constitutional law” is based on a myth that dates back to Chief Justice John Marshall and the 1803 case of Marbury v. Madison. According to the myth, Marshall not only CREATED the power of judicial review but also established judicial SUPREMACY – giving the courts ultimate authority over the other branches, the states, and even the people. In this episode, we smash that myth to pieces and reveal the true story behind Marbury.

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Lesson Plan – The Enduring Legacy of Marbury v. Madison (1803)

USCourts.gov

Paulsen – The Irrepressible Myth of Marbury

Did the Founders expect the Courts to Declare Laws Unconstitutional?

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (1 Dec 1787)

Samuel Adams – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (1 Feb 1788)

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 Jan 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (17 June 1788)

Centinel No. XVI (26 Feb 1788)

John Dickinson – Philadelphia Conventino (15 Aug 1787)

Maharrey – Nullification for Lawyers

Marbury v Madison (1803)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Abigail Adams (11 Sept 1804)

Episode – Ignore the Court? The Real Checks and Balances in the Founders Constitution

Publius Huldah – Clearing up the confusion about Marbury v. Madison

Joshua Dunn – Teaching American History

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Did We Betray the Founders? 5 Ignored Warnings Prove It

Michael Boldin — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 19:01:43 +0000

The Founders knew the path to tyranny – and how to avoid it. So how did the former “land of the free” become home to the largest government in history? In this episode, learn about five key warnings from the Founders that explain how we got here. Understanding them is the first step toward turning things around for good.

Path to Liberty: February 21, 2025

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EPISODE – 5 Big Road Blocks to Liberty

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VII (1767)

Samuel Adams – Valerius Poplicola, Boston Gazette (5 OCt 1772)

Benjamin Rush – Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government (1786)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Charles Yancey (6 Jan 1816)

Dr. Samuel Willard – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (22 Jan 1788)

“Old” Abraham White – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (16 Jan 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

James Otis, Jr – (11 Jan 1762)

John Dickinson – Broadside against the Stamp Act (1765)

James Madison – Federalist 46

EPISODE – How to Enforce the Constitution: Whether the Government Likes it or Not

John Adams – Thoughts on Government (Apr 1776)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)

St George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

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The Whiskey Rebellion Coverup: What They Don’t Want You to Know

Michael Boldin — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:18:03 +0000

Almost everything we’ve been taught about the Whiskey Rebellion is based on a coverup – one designed to push the myth that federal power is unbeatable and resistance is futile. But the real history tells a very different story. This was a powerful movement of tax resistance that ultimately nullified the hated excise tax into oblivion. In this episode, learn the forgotten examples of resistance from Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, and more.

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Rothbard – The Whiskey Rebellion: A Model for Our Time?

Jacob E. Cooke The Whiskey Insurrection: A Re-Evaluation

Jeffrey J. Crow – The Whiskey Rebellion in North Carolina

Tench Coxe – Letter to Alexander Hamilton (19 Oct 1792)

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to George Washington (9 Sept 1792)

Kevin Barksdale – Our Rebellious Neighbors : Virginia’s Border Counties During Pennsylvania’s Whiskey Rebellion

National Park Service – Whiskey Rebellion

The Whiskey Rebellion in Kentucky: A Forgotten Episode of Civil Disobedience

The Act of Congress That Helped Bring on the Whiskey Rebellion (1792)

Act of Congress Attempting to Mitigate Brewing Whiskey Rebellion (1794)

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How to Enforce the Constitution: Whether the Government Likes it or Not

Michael Boldin — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 19:28:21 +0000

Despite the fact that government-run “education” never teaches it, the Founders told us exactly how to enforce the Constitution – without waiting on the federal government to limit itself. In this episode, we break down their forgotten strategy for stopping federal overreach – whether the government likes it or not.

Path to Liberty: February 14, 2025

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St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

John Jay – An Address to the People of the State of New York (1788)

William Davie – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Johnson (12 June 1823)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (before 4 Oct 1798)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Lafayette (2 Apr 1790)

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Ignore the Court? The Real Checks and Balances in the Founders Constitution

Michael Boldin — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:20:22 +0000

The Constitution is supreme – not acts of Congress, not a president’s views, and not court opinions. The Framers repeatedly affirmed this. So, who decides when the Constitution is violated? For the Founders, the answer was everyone. And that’s the key to what we’re covering in this episode – how real checks and balances were designed to work.

Path to Liberty: February 12, 2025

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Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William H. Torrance (11 June 1815)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sept 1820)

Constitution – Article VI Clause 2

The Constitution: An Introduction

TenthAmendment on X – Oath to the Constitution

James Madison – Federalist 49 (5 Feb 1788)

Michael Stokes Paulsen – The President and the Myth of Judicial Supremacy

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 81 (28 May 1788)

Carson Holloway – Against Judicial Supremacy: The Founders and the Limits on the Courts

John Jay – Minutes of the Circuit Court for the District of New York (5 Apr 1792)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Spencer Roane (6 Sept 1819)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Abigail Adams (11 Sept 1804)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolution (10 Nov 1798)

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3 War Powers Myths That Totally Misrepresent the Constitution

Michael Boldin — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:26:03 +0000

“Until war is Constitutionally declared, the nation and all its members must observe and preserve peace.” That was John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States. But today, few people even understand what this means – or how Founders like Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison put it into practice. In this episode, we’re shattering three of the biggest modern myths about war powers and the Constitution. What did the Founders actually say? How did they act when faced with war? The answers might surprise you.

Path to Liberty: February 7, 2025

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War Powers: The True History of John Adams and the Quasi-War with France

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War Powers: The True History of George Washington and the Indian Tribes

War Powers: The True History of Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates

War Powers: The True History of James Madison, the Constitution and the War of 1812

Forgotten Lessons from James Otis: Warnings We Ignored

Michael Boldin — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 19:03:35 +0000

Years before the Declaration of Independence, James Otis Jr. laid the intellectual foundation for the American Revolution – championing natural rights, property rights, and the necessity of resisting tyranny. To commemorate his birthday on February 5, 1725, we’re diving into five fundamental truths he taught – truths we ignore at our own peril.

Path to Liberty: February 5, 2025

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Collected Political Writings of James Otis

John Locke – Two Treatises

Massachusetts Circular Letter (11 Feb 1768)

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Recess Appointments: Forgotten Constitutional Limits from the Founders

Michael Boldin — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:21:10 +0000

Even Alexander Hamilton – no opponent of big, centralized government – held a far more restrictive view of executive power on “recess appointments” than most politicians and judges today. That tells you just how far things have gone off the rails. In this episode, we’re breaking down one of the most misunderstood parts of the Constitution – the Recess Appointments Clause. We’ll cover how the Founders viewed the clause, what they meant by recess, adjournment, and happen, and three key takeaways that expose how modern practices have strayed from the Constitution’s original design.

Path to Liberty: February 3, 2025

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Constitution: Article II, Section 2, Clause 2-3

Michael Rappaport – The Original Meaning of the Recess Appointments Clause

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 67 (11 Mar 1788)

Edmund Randolph – Opinion on Recess Appointments (7 July 1792)

Rob Natelson – The Evidence Continues to Pile Up on “Recess Appointments”

Massachusetts Constitution, Part 2, Chapter II, Section I, Article V (1780)

New Hampshire Constitution, Part 2, Article 34 (1784)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

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A Weapon to Destroy Freedom: Founders’ Forgotten Warnings

Michael Boldin — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 19:03:27 +0000

The “customary weapon” to destroy freedom. That’s how George Washington described the danger of turning a blind eye to violations of the Constitution – and he wasn’t alone. The Founders warned us that every overstep, every excuse, and every precedent sets us on the dangerous path to tyranny. In this episode, we’ll dive into their long-forgotten warnings about power, precedent, and the slippery slope to tyranny.

Path to Liberty: January 29, 2025

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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

James Otis, Jr (1762)

Episode – Arbitrary Government: How the Founders Defined Tyranny

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

Samuel Adams – Loyalty and Sedition – Essay in The Advertiser (1748)

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution vol. 2

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Episode – Most Important (and Ignored) Veto in History: James Madison’s Last Stand

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2nd Amendment: Founders Ignored Strategy to Stop Invasions of Your Rights

Michael Boldin — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 19:26:01 +0000

When government violates your right to keep and bear arms, the Founders called it an invasion of liberty. But they didn’t just complain – they gave us a strategy to resist and defeat those invaders of our most essential rights. In this episode, I’ll share their warnings and solutions, both of which have been ignored for far too long.

Path to Liberty: January 27, 2025

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Roger Sherman – Debate in the House of Representatives (1790)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 42 (26 Aug 1721)

An Old Whig IV (27 Oct 1787)

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sept 1820)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767)

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Forgotten Anti-Federalist Warnings on the Constitution from Elbridge Gerry

Michael Boldin — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:20:24 +0000

Elbridge Gerry warned that “the existence of their liberties will soon be terminated” under the Constitution without significant amendments. As one of the most active delegates at the Philadelphia Convention, Gerry ultimately refused to sign the final document. Shortly after, he wrote a letter outlining his objections to ratification, which became a highly influential Anti-Federalist essay. In this episode, we’ll explore his top objections, including ambiguous powers like the necessary and proper clause, the dangers of excessive consolidation, and more

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Maharrey – The Anti-Federalist Views of Elbridge Gerry

Elbridge Gerry’s Objections – Letter to Massachusetts Legislature (18 Oct 1787)

Montesquieu – The Spirit of Laws

Philadelphia Convention (6 June 1787)

Philadelphia Convention (12 Sept 1787)

Philadelphia Convention (15 Sept 1787)

Philadelphia Convention (8 Sept 1787)

Philadelphia Convention (23 Aug 1787)

Elbridge Gerry – Letter to James Warren (18 Oct 1787)

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Oath vs Censorship: Jefferson on the Duty to Stop Unconstitutional Laws

Michael Boldin — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 19:05:53 +0000

An act against the Constitution is no law at all – it’s void. This principle, rooted in the American Revolution and the debates over the Constitution’s ratification, was central to President Thomas Jefferson’s response to the Sedition Act of 1798. In this episode, we explore how Jefferson’s adherence to his oath to the Constitution led him to treat this attack on freedom of speech as null and void – regardless of whether Congress, the courts, or anyone else agreed.

Path to Liberty: January 22, 2025

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Abigail Adams (22 July 1804)

James Otis – Arguments against the Writs of Assistance (1761)

John Adams – Argument before Governor Bernard and the Council in Favor of Opening the Courts

Thomas Jefferson – Summary View (1774)

Boldin – Thomas Jefferson’s Solution from the Revolution

Episode – Null and Void: Thomas Jefferson’s 1774 Radical Declaration

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

Boldin – The Sedition Act of 1798: Silencing Dissent and Sparking Resistance

Pardon of David Brown (12 Mar 1801)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft of Kentucky Resolutions (before 4 Oct 1798)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to to Edward Livingston, 1 November 1801

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Duane, 23 May 1801

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Gideon Granger, 9 March 1814

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Spencer Roane, 6 September 1819

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Abigail Adams, 11 September 1804

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Conspiracy: Luther Martin’s Anti-Federalist Warnings about Centralization

Michael Boldin — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:06:23 +0000

Luther Martin, the Anti-Federalist firebrand, predicted that the Constitution would lead to a national system of consolidated power that could never secure liberty. He argued this was an intentional conspiracy – a deliberate plan at the Philadelphia Convention to undermine federalism and state sovereignty. In this episode, we’ll uncover Martin’s fiery objections, his claims of a calculated scheme, his warnings about consolidation, standing armies, and more.

Path to Liberty: January 17, 2025

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Maharrey – Luther Martin’s Warning: The Constitution as a Threat to State Sovereignty

Genuine Information (29 Nov 1787)

Montesquieu – The Spirit of Laws

Episode – Alexander Hamilton’s Craziest Plan

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Federal Robbery: Asset Forfeiture Program Helps States Steal

Michael Boldin — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:09:51 +0000

Civil asset forfeiture is theft. Despite the fact that a growing number of states are limiting or even ending this practice, there’s a massive loophole. A federal program called “equitable sharing” not only allows state and local law enforcement to bypass these restrictions but actively encourages it. In this episode, learn what it is and what states can do to bring it to an end.

Path to Liberty: January 15, 2025

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Maharrey – The Federal Loophole That Fuels Asset Forfeiture Nationwide

IJ – Ending Civil Forfeiture

IJ – Policing for Profit – Introduction

Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984

DOJ – FY2023 Equitable Sharing Payment of Cash and Sales Proceeds by Recipient Agency by State

IJ – How States Have Shrunk the Loophole

New York A1437 Report

Colorado HB1067 Report

Lysander Spooner – No Treason No VI

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10th Amendment Explained: Tench Coxe on State vs Federal Power

Michael Boldin — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:34:04 +0000

“Independent of the control or interference of the federal government.” That’s how Tench Coxe described the vast majority of power under the Constitution – reserved to the states and completely off-limits to the federal government. In this episode, we’re diving into his powerful insights: specific powers reserved to the states and the limits placed on federal power. Living under the largest government in history, this 10th Amendment foundation of the Constitution is more important than ever.

Path to Liberty: January 13, 2025

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Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

James Wilson – State House Yard Speech (6 Oct 1787)

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – New York Ratifying Convention (28 June 1788)

John Williams – New York Ratifying Convention (21 June 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

Boldin – Bill of Rights: Forgotten Role of the 10th Amendment in Its Creation

Tench Coxe – A Freeman I (23 Jan 1788)

Maharrey – Tench Coxe: Forgotten Federalist who Helped Influence Ratification of the Constitution

Maharrey – Tench Coxe: A Detailed Breakdown of State vs. Federal Powers

Tench Coxe – A Freeman II (30 Jan 1788)

Tench Coxe – A Pennsylvanian IV (27 Feb 1788)

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Government is Evil: Timeless Lessons from Thomas Paine’s Common Sense

Michael Boldin — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:25:19 +0000

January 10, 1776: Thomas Paine didn’t hold back in Common Sense. Far more than just a call for independence from Britain, it was a bold and uncompromising attack on unlimited, centralized power. In this episode, we explore some of Paine’s top principles from Common Sense – timeless lessons that remain as relevant and important today as they were over two centuries ago during the early stages of the War for Independence.

Path to Liberty: January 10, 2025

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Patrick J. Kiger – History.com

Robert McDonald – Teaching American History

Ray Tyler – Teaching American History

Common Sense (full text)

Boldin – Common Sense: A Scathing Attack on Unlimited, Centralized Power

Episode – Mercantilism Before the Tea Party: Forgotten Grievance of the Revolution

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Most Important Inaugural Address: Forgotten Principles of Jefferson

Michael Boldin — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 19:13:38 +0000

The 10th Amendment, peace, cutting spending and debt, and eliminating taxes – these are just a few of the key principles Thomas Jefferson outlined in his first inaugural address. Easily one of the most important presidential speeches in American history, Jefferson’s inaugural laid out a bold and clear vision: a blueprint for liberty, unity, and strictly limited government under the Constitution. In this video, we’ll dive into the context of Jefferson’s election and address, his unwavering emphasis on peace, and the 13 essential principles of his administration. Over two centuries later, his message remains more vital than ever.

Path to Liberty: January 6, 2025

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Monticello – First Inauguration

National Archives – 1800 Electoral College Results

Hamilton on the Election of 1800

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to Harrison Gray Otis (23 Dec 1800)

Jefferson’s First Inaugural – Full Text (4 Mar 1801)

David Tucker – Preserving the Common Ground of American Citizenship: Jefferson’s First Inaugural

Episode – Nullify: Thomas Jefferson’s Radical Declaration They Want You to Ignore

Episode – Militia vs Standing Army: The Founders’ View

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Thomas Paine (11 July 1789)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Samuel Adams (29 Mar 1801)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 Apr 1801)

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Forgotten Dangers of Political Parties: Warnings We’ve Ignored for too Long

Michael Boldin — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 18:53:23 +0000

We’re diving into one of the Founders’ most critical lessons: the dangers of factions and party spirit. To truly understand their warnings, we’ll explore the ideas that inspired them – especially the sharp insights of Thomas Gordon and John Trenchard, authors of Cato’s Letters and Gordon’s Works of Sallust. Their words, written nearly 300 years ago, reveal truths about political division that remain just as relevant today. Some things, it seems, never really change.

Path to Liberty: January 3, 2025

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Cicero – The Works of Sallust

John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters No. 17 (18 Feb 1721)

Wolverton – Trenchard and Gordon: Forgotten Influences on the Founders

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution/Chapter XXXI

John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters No. 80 (9 June 1722)

Samuel Adams – Loyalty and Sedition (1748)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 16 (11 Feb 1721)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 51 (4 Nov 1721)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 96 (29 Sept 1722)

John Taylor – Tyranny Unmasked

George Washington – Farewell Address 19 Sept 1796

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Francis Hopkinson (13 Mar 1789)

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Benjamin Franklin’s Almanack Uncovered: Wisdom They Don’t Want You to Know

Michael Boldin — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 20:40:26 +0000

Today – like every day – is a perfect time to revisit the timeless wisdom of his Poor Richard’s Almanack. First published on December 28, 1732, it became a cultural sensation over the next 25 years, blending sharp wit, practical advice, and lessons most people ignore today. In this episode, we’ll explore some of Franklin’s best wisdom that’s just as critical now as it was back then.

Path to Liberty: December 30, 2024

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Maharrey – Poor Richard’s Almanac: Benjamin Franklin’s Timeless Guide to Life, Liberty, and Frugality

Autobiography – Poor Richard’s Almanac And Other Activities

Extracts from the Gazette, 1732

Poor Richard’s 1733

Benjamin Franklin Historical Society

Lisa Morgan – The Prominent and Prodigiously Popular Poor Richard

The Frigate Bonhomme Richard

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James Madison’s Forgotten Plan to Stop Federal Tyranny Revealed

Michael Boldin — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 20:41:34 +0000

The states are “duty bound to interpose.” That’s how James Madison put it in his Virginia Resolutions, passed Dec 21 and 24, 1798, against the Alien and Sedition acts. They answer a timeless question: What should be done when the federal government oversteps its constitutional bounds? In this episode, learn 6 essential principles that make up Madison’s plan to stop federal tyranny.

Path to Liberty: December 20, 2024

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Virginia Resolutions (21 Dec 1798)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 28 (28 Dec 1787)

Report of 1800 (7 Jan 1800)

John Jay: An Address to the People of the State of New York (15 Apr 1788)

Episode – Sovereignty and the Constitution: Government as Agent of the People of the States

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (26 Nov 1787)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to Theodore Sedgwick (2 Feb 1799)

John Dickinson – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (18 Mar 1800)

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Forgotten Anti-Federalist Warnings: The Pennsylvania Dissent

Michael Boldin — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 20:48:20 +0000

One of the most influential Anti-Federalist essays against the Constitution didn’t come from a single writer. It came from a group of delegates at the Pennsylvania ratifying convention. Their warnings – about centralization of power, corruption, and more – might sound eerily familiar today. And make sure to stick around, because at the end, we’ll dive into what they considered federalist dirty tricks used to push the process through

Path to Liberty: December 18, 2024

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Ratification of the Constitution by the State of Pennsylvania; December 12, 1787

Pauline Maier – Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788

The Debates In The Convention Of The State Of Pennsylvania, On The Adoption Of The Federal Constitution

The Dissent of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention, Pennsylvania Packet (18 Dec 1787)

Maharrey – Anti-Federalist Objections: Pennsylvania Dissent Explained

Episode – Anti-Federalist vs Federalist CLASH: Montesquieu and Separation of Powers

Episode – Was the Constitution Sold on a Lie? Shays’ Rebellion and Ratification

Tara Ross – James Wilson’s Speech

Concordia University – A Daily Journal for Sept 29, 1787

National Archives

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These Are the Times That Try Men’s Souls: Words That Saved the Revolution

Michael Boldin — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:08:22 +0000

With those unforgettable words, Thomas Paine lit a fire in the hearts of patriots during one of the darkest moments of the American Revolution. First published on December 19, 1776, The American Crisis was more than just an essay – it was a rallying cry that turned despair into victory. And it was filled with timeless wisdom that we can all find inspiration from today.

Path to Liberty: December 16, 2024

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Thomas Paine – The American Crisis No. 1 (19 Dec 1776)

Thomas Paine – Letter to the Abbe Raynal (1782)

California Society, Sons of the American Revolution

George Washington – Letter to Lund Washington (10-17 Dec 1776)

Thomas Paine – Letter to Samuel Adams (1 Jan 1803)

Boldin – These are the Times that Try Men’s Souls

John Dickinson – The Liberty Song (1768)

Jett Connor – The American Crisis Before Crossing the Delaware?

Jett Connor – A Brief Publication History of the “Times That Try Men’s Souls”

Travis Shaw – American Battlefield Trust

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2nd Amendment: Founders’ Blueprint to Defeat Gun Control

Michael Boldin — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 18:56:30 +0000

The natural right of self defence is one of our most essential rights, part of the first law of nature. But that hasn’t stopped governments from violating it. So the founders told us over and over that it’s up to us – the people of the states – to protect and defend our own constitution and our own liberty – whether the government likes it, or not. In this episode, we’re applying their principles and strategy to protect and defend the 2nd Amendment from federal violations.

Path to Liberty: December 13, 2024

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St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

James Wilson – Lectures on Law

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (30 Jul 1788)

James Iredell- North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 Jul 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Philip Mazzei (24 Apr 1796)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania XI (1767)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)

John Steele – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (25 Jul 1788)

James Otis, Jr (11 Jan 1762)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

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Lysander Spooner: Radical Truths on Tyranny and the Constitution

Michael Boldin — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:57:31 +0000

“Tyrants care nothing for discussions that are to end only in discussion.” Lysander Spooner didn’t pull any punches. He knew that words without action were meaningless in the fight against tyranny. In this episode, we’ll dive into some of his most radical and powerful takes on the Constitution – his ideas matter now more than ever.

Path to Liberty: December 11, 2024

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Lysander Spooner – No Treason VI, The Constitution of No Authority (1870)

Episode – Constitution: The Founders on the Limits of Parchment Barriers

A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

Episode – Jury Nullification: The People’s Secret Weapon Against Tyranny

Forced Consent (1873)

Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (1860)

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Anti-Federalist vs Federalist CLASH: Montesquieu and Separation of Powers

Michael Boldin — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:58:27 +0000

Liberty is doomed where power is united – consolidated in the same hands. That’s the warning Montesquieu gave us about separation of powers. This was one of the biggest battles between Federalists and Anti-Federalists But here’s the twist: both sides used the exact same words to support opposite arguments. In this episode, we’re diving into this critical debate over the ideas of the most-cited political writer of the ratification debates

Path to Liberty: December 9, 2024

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Natelson – The ideas that formed the Constitution: Montesquieu

Paul Merrill Spurlin – Montesquieu and the American Constitution

Center for the Study of the American Constitution

The Spirit of Laws, Vol. 1, Book XI – Of the Laws that form political Liberty, with regard to the Constitution

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Constitution of Virginia (1776)

Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (1780)

Boldin – Separation of Powers: A “Dogmatic Maxim” in the Constitution

Richard Peters – Letter to John Adams (15 June 1789)

Separation of Powers with Checks and Balances

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Gov. Edmund Randolph (16 Oct 1787)

The Dissent of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention (18 Dec 1787)

Impartial Examiner IV (11 June 1788)

Maharrey – George Mason’s Anti-Federalist Arguments Against the Constitution

John C. Pinheiro – How the Founders Read Montesquieu

James Madison – Federalist 47 (1 Feb 1788)

William Davie – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (4 Dec 1787)

Episode – The Other 16th Amendment: Separation of Powers

William Reddinger – John Dickinson and the Moderation of Constitutional Balance in The Letters of Fabius

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Rights Are Not Gifts from Government: The Founders’ View

Michael Boldin — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 22:33:09 +0000

Rights don’t come from a constitution, a bill of rights, or any document at all. Your natural rights – come from your creator – and you have them by the nature of your humanity. Even civil rights – are built on the foundation of natural rights. These were widely-held views from the founders and old revolutionaries.

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Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)

John Dickinson – An address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados (1766)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)

Alexander Hamilton – The Farmer Refuted, &c. (23 Feb 1775)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Mason Locke Weems (13 Dec 1804)

Episode – Thomas Jefferson’s Favorite Book on Government?

Francis Hutcheson – An Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1726)

Episode – Jefferson’s Trinity

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

Episode – Everyone Armed to Preserve Liberty

James Otis, Jr – The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)

John Jay – Letter to J.C. Dongan (7 Feb 1792)

Luther Martin – Philadelphia Convention (27-28 June 1787)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (5 Feb 1788)

Thomas Paine – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (1788)

James Madison – Speech Proposing Amendments to the Constitution (8 June 1789)

Thomas Paine – Dissertation on the First Principles of Government (1795)

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America (July 1774)

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4 Forgotten Principles That Fueled the American Revolution

Michael Boldin — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 20:48:45 +0000

Division of power, precedent, the right to resist, and more – essential – and totally forgotten – principles that fueled the American Revolution. They’re all drawn from John Dickinson’s 1767 Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. Totally forgotten and ignored today, but they were the most widely-read writings on American liberty prior to the War for Independence.

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Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (full text)

Maharrey – Forgotten Foundation of the Revolution: Letters from a Farmer

Letter 12

Montesquieu – The Spirit of Law Chap. XIII

Letter 4

Declaration of Rights and Resolves – Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (19 Oct 1765)

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2nd Amendment: Everyone Armed to Preserve Liberty (Founders Warnings)

Michael Boldin — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 19:22:17 +0000

The founders knew that an armed society was essential to preserving liberty – because they lived it first hand. In fact, this was one of the most critical lessons they passed down to us. In this episode, learn some powerful views from leading founders and old revolutionaries on the right to keep and bear arms as a natural right, on the role of the militia as a defence against both foreign and domestic danger, and the goal that everyone be armed to preserve liberty.

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George Washington – Sentiments on a Peace Establishment (1 May 1783)

Dickinson, Jefferson – Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

George Washington – First Annual Message to Congress (8 Jan 1790)

Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington (18 Jan 1790)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Destutt De Tracy (26 Jan 1811)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Noah Webster – A Citizen of America: An Examination Into the Leading Principles of America (17 Oct 1787)

Episode – 4 Main Reasons for the 2nd Amendment

Luther Martin – Genuine Information VII (18 Jan 1788)

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

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Trust No One with Power: Forgotten and Ignored Warnings from the Founders

Michael Boldin — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 19:13:55 +0000

The Founders warned us – over and over again – that power always expands, no matter who holds it. So, you can’t trust anyone with power, no matter how much you like them or what they do, because that same power will eventually fall into the hands of someone hell-bent on destroying your liberty. In this episode, you’ll learn some of the most powerful warnings from the Founders about the dangers of power – warnings we can’t afford to ignore any longer.

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John Adams – Notes for an Oration at Braintree (Spring 1772)

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution vol. 2

John Adams – An Essay on Man’s Lust for Power, with the Author’s Comment in 1807 (29 Aug 1763)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)

Samuel Adams – Letter to James Warren (24 Oct 1780)

George Mason – Philadelphia Convention (11 July 1787)

Samuel Adams – Loyalty and Sedition – Essay in The Advertiser (1748)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Jefferson & Dickinson – Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)

John Jay – Address to the People of New York (15 Apr 1788)

Oliver Ellsworth – A Landholder III (19 Nov 1787)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Patrick Henry (28 May 1789)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

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Forgotten Founder Tench Coxe: The “Other” Federalist Papers Revealed

Michael Boldin — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 19:28:50 +0000

His writings had far more influence on the debates over the Constitution than the Federalist Papers we hear so much about today. In this episode, learn his top-4 arguments for ratification, including a clear line in the sand on delegated and reserved powers, the true source of government power, the militia, and much more.

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NEW BOOK – The Other Federalist Papers: Tench Coxe

Maharrey – Forgotten Federalist who Helped Influence Ratification of the Constitution

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Johnson (12 June 1823)

Maharrey – Tench Coxe: A Detailed Breakdown of State vs. Federal Powers

An American Citizen II (28 Sept 1787)

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Cabinet Picks Clash: Washington’s Team and America’s First 2-Party System

Michael Boldin — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:54:50 +0000

“I would wish the debt paid tomorrow; he wishes it never to be paid, but always to be a thing wherewith to corrupt and manage the legislature.” This slapback from Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson was aimed squarely at Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. These two – along with Edmund Randolph and Henry Knox – made up Washington’s first cabinet, a group filled with some major ideological clashes. In this episode, we’ll explore how their divisive views on issues like the national debt and a national bank created a rift so deep it helped give rise to America’s first two-party system.

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to George Washington (9 Sept 1792)

National Archives: The Anecdotes

The complete anas of Thomas Jefferson

Constitution: Article II, Section 2

James Madison – Resolution (19 May 1789)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (27 May 1789)

List of secretaries of state of the United States

John Jay – Letter to Gouverneur Morris (24 Sept 1783)

John Jay – Charge to Grandy Jury, Richmond Virginia

Lehrman Institute – Founding Economists

Mount Vernon – Department of the Treasury

George Washington to the United States Senate (11 Sept 1789)

Alexander Hamilton – Unsubmitted Resolution Calling for a Convention to Amend the Articles of Confederation (July 1783)

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to to Robert Morris (30 Apr 1781)

Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington, Plan for the Arrangement of the Militia (18 Jan 1790)

Henry Knox – Report on Indian Affairs (29 Dec 1794)

George Washington to the United States Senate (25 Sept 1789)

Edmund Randolph’s Opinion on Recess Appointments (7 July 1792)

Maharrey – Edmund Randolph vs the National Bank

Episode – The Constitution vs the National Bank: Edmund Randolph’s Analysis

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank

Episode – Thomas Jefferson: The Constitution vs the National Bank

Mount Vernon – Jefferson and Hamilton: Political Rivals in Washington’s Cabinet

George Washington – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (23 Aug 1792)

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Most Underrated and Ignored Founder: John Dickinson, Penman of the Revolution

Michael Boldin — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:47:32 +0000

“We cannot be happy without being FREE.” Those words come from John Dickinson, who saw LIBERTY as the foundation of everything else. Once almost as famous as Benjamin Franklin, Dickinson is almost totally forgotten today. Known as the “Penman of the Revolution,” he was a fierce defender of natural rights, the father of the Articles of Confederation, a leading opponent of the Stamp Act, a supporter of the Constitution, and much more. To honor his birthday, we’re diving into the life and legacy of one of America’s most underrated and ignored founding fathers.

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Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 12 (1767)

Delaware Historical and Cultural Affairs

Natelson – The Founders and the Constitution: John Dickinson

Forrest McDonald – John Dickinson: The Most Underrated Founder?

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)

Episode – Forgotten Declaration: Cause of the War for Independence Explained

Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress: Declaration of Rights and Grievances (19 Oct 1765)

Jane Calvert – John Dickinson Biography

Broadside Against the Stamp Act (Nov 1765)

Maharrey – John Dickinson Put His Money Where His Mouth Was

Episode – Articles of Confederation: An Introduction

Fabius IV (19 Apr 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Joseph Bringhurst (24 Feb 1808)

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Nullify: Thomas Jefferson’s Radical Declaration They Want You to Ignore

Michael Boldin — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 20:00:26 +0000

“A nullification of the act is the rightful remedy.” That’s how Thomas Jefferson put it in his draft Resolutions against the Alien and Sedition Acts. On November 10, 1798, the Kentucky legislature passed resolutions based on his principles. They not only reaffirmed the Constitution’s structure a strict line between delegated and reserved powers, but also laid out how to defend it against violations of the constitution by the federal government.
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Derek Sheriff: Thomas Jefferson’s Other Declaration

Wiki: November 10

Maharrey – Today in History: Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 Passed

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (7 June 1798)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (10 June 1798)

Alien and Sedition Acts – Full Text

Kevin Gutzman – 1800, Thomas Jefferson Defeats John Adams

Sedition Act (14 July 1798)

Episode – Forgotten 1774 Declaration: Precursor to Independence and Bill of Rights

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (3 Nov 1798)

Episode – Elected from Prison: Matthew Lyon

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions, Fair Copy (Before 4 Oct 1798)

Wilson Cary Nicholas – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (4 Oct 1798)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Wilson Cary Nicholas (5 Oct 1798)

Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

Maharrey – The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 Were All About Nullification

National Archives – Editorial Note: The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

Episode – Jefferson: Top-5 Principles from the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (17 Nov 1798)

Kentucky Resolutions of 1799 (3 Dec 1799)

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President OATH to the CONSTITUTION: 5 Steps to Protect and Defend NOW

Michael Boldin — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 20:17:11 +0000

It’s time to walk the walk. Right now, the Constitution is treated as little more than an optional guide – at best. Or toilet paper. In this episode, learn the top-5 most crucial steps an oath-keeping president should take to radically protect and defend the Constitution – starting now.

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St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Episode – Oath to the Constitution: Ignored and Betrayed Daily at the Cost of Liberty

5. REDUCE DEBT

George Washington – Fifth Annual Message to Congress (3 Dec 1793)

4. CULTIVATE PEACE

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Episode – No Permanent Alliances: Foreign Policy of Washington and Jefferson

3. VETO EVERYTHING

First Veto – George Washington to the United States House of Representatives (5 Apr 1792)

Episode – Most Important (and Ignored) Veto in History: James Madison’s Last Stand

2. REFUSE TO ENFORCE

James Madison to Unknown (Dec. 1834)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Spencer Roane (6 Sept 1819)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Abigail Adams (22 July 1804)

1. PARDON EN MASSE

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 74 (25 Mar 1788)

George Washington – Proclamation of Pardons in Western Pennsylvania (10 July 1795)

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You Can’t COMPLY Your Way Out of TYRANNY: The Forgotten Foundation

Michael Boldin — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:42:09 +0000

This principle – central to the American Revolution – has been almost totally forgotten and ignored. On this episode, we’re uncovering powerful warnings from leading Founders and Old Revolutionaries about the dangers of compliance with usurpations of power. And a century later, the radical Lysander Spooner took up the same cause, fiercely defending these principles of resistance to defend liberty. These are lessons we can’t afford to ignore any longer.

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Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

James Otis, Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

Lysander Spooner – A Defense for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (Nov 1765)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. XI (1767)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)

Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

George Washington Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

James Otis Jr. – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)

Lysander Spooner – No Treason VI (1870)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

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Oath to the Constitution: Ignored and Betrayed Daily at the Cost of Liberty

Michael Boldin — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 19:42:45 +0000

“If their duty, their honor, and their oaths will not bind them, let us not put into their hands our liberty, and all our other great interests.” Those are the words of Gouverneur Morris, the “penman of the Constitution.” Today, despite that warning – politicians ignore that oath every day – and the people keep letting them get away with it. The price is our liberty.

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Constitution – Oath president – Article II, Sec 1, Cl. 8

Constitution – Oath for everyone else – Article VI, Cl. 3

Current Oath of Senate

The Oath of Office: The First Act of the First Congress

Oliver Wolcott – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (9 Jan 1788)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (30 Jul 1788)

Natelson – The Original Meaning of the Establishment Clause

Gouverneur Morris – Philadelphia Convention (11 July 1787)

Moses Mather – America’s Appeal To The Impartial World (1775)

Wiki: Option of Affirmation

An Ordinance for Establishing a General Test Oath (19 Aug 1775)

An Act Repealing Duties Laid Upon Distilled Spirits Imported (9 Jan 1790)

John Smilie – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (8 Dec 1787)

Luther Martin – Philadelphia Convention (11 June 1787)

William Findley – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (1 Dec 1787)

Brutus II (1 Nov 1787)

Melancton Smith – New York Ratifying Convention (7 July 1788)

James Wilson – Philadelphia Convention (23 July 1787)

Edmund Pendleton – Letter to James Madison (8 Oct 1787)

James Madison – Letter to Edmund Pendleton (28 Oct 1787)

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)

Archibald Maclaine – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Lysander Spooner: No Treason VI (1870)

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REFUSE TO COMPLY: How the Stamp Act Was Nullified

Michael Boldin — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:40:57 +0000

Refuse to comply. That’s exactly what the people did to bring down the Stamp Act once it went into effect on November 1, 1765. We’ve all heard about the fiery protests and the bold resistance, but there was so much more to the story. On this episode, learn their hidden strategies of defiance – the methods they used that government-run schools never talk about. These are the same strategies the founders told us to use to nullify unconstitutional acts today.

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History.com – Stamp Act goes into effect in the American colonies

Patrick Henry’s Resolutions Against the Stamp Act

Cyrus Baldwin – Letter to Loammi Baldwin (15 Aug 1765)

Repudiation of the Stamp Act

Maharrey – Colonial Nullification: A Maryland County Court’s Repudiation of the Stamp Act

Murray Rothbard – Ignoring the Stamp Act

Rhode Island Stamp Act Resolves (15 Sept 1765)

Journal of the American Revolution: The Tombstone Edition

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (Nov 1765)

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Repeal the 17th Amendment: Ignored Anti-Federalist Warnings on the Senate

Michael Boldin — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 19:35:31 +0000

Repealing the 17th Amendment is the right move to help restore federalism – but is it enough? The Anti-Federalists warned us about dangers in the Senate’s structure long before the 17th came along, and without understanding those warnings, we could still end up with the same problems: corruption, power grabs, and more centralized control.

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17th Amendment: How it Broke the Safeguard Against Consolidation

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Gov. Johnston – North Carolina Ratification Debates (25 July 1788)

John Jay – Federalist 64 (7 Mar 1788)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (6 June 1788)

Episode – 17th Amendment: Did it Destroy the Structure of the Constitution?

Natelson – Understanding the Constitution: The 17th amendment and direct election of Senators

Natelson – Repeal the 17th: Problems to Address

Articles of Confederation – Article V

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (12 June 1788)

Federal Farmer X (7 Jan 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

Episode – 17th Amendment Myth Busted: There was no Recall Power

Col William Jones – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (19 Jan 1788)

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

Melancton Smith – New York Ratifying Convention (25 June 1788)

Center for the Study of the American Constitution: The Debate over the Senate

Cincinnatus IV (22 Nov 1787)

The Dissent of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention (18 Dec 1787)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

Luther Martin – Genuine Information IV (8 Jan 1788)

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Most Important (and Ignored) Veto in History: James Madison’s Last Stand

Michael Boldin — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 18:17:45 +0000

On his very last day in office, James Madison shocked Congress by vetoing an infrastructure bill – even though he supported the idea behind it. Madison refused to sign off on the measure, saying it didn’t follow the strict limits of the Constitution, even if it aligned with his own political goals. This might be the most important – and most ignored – veto in history.

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George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Postal Road Survey (5 Feb 1796)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (6 March 1796)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (4 Apr 1796)

James Madison – Letter to Reynolds Chapman (6 Jan 1831)

James Madison – 7th Annual Message to Congress (5 Dec 1815)

James Madison – 8th Annual Message to Congress (3 Dec 1816)

Adam White – Infrastructure Policy: Lessons from American History

John C. Calhoun – Argument for Internal Improvements

Drew McCoy – The Last of the Fathers

Henry Clay – Letter to James Madison (3 Mar 1817)

Dave Benner – James Madison Vetoes Infrastructure Bill as Unconstitutional

James Madison – Veto Message (3 Mar 1817)

James Madison – Letter to James Monroe (27 Dec 1817)

James Madison – Letter to Nicholas P. Trist (1 Dec 1831)

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Articles of Confederation vs Constitution: 6 Key Differences You Need to Know

Michael Boldin — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 20:16:30 +0000

A deep dive into six key differences that demonstrate how the Articles were much closer to a pure system of federalism than the Constitution for the United States. We’ll cover topics like representation, the executive branch, the taxing power – and more.

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James Madison – Federalist 40 (18 Jan 1788)

James Madison – Letter to Edmund Pendleton (21 Jan 1792)

Constitution for the United States

Episode – Tax Battle! Henry vs Hamilton on the Requisition System

The Bill of Rights

Episode – Benjamin Franklin’s Articles of Confederation

Lee Resolution (2 July 1776)

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Patrick Henry vs the Constitution: Ignored Anti-Federalist Warnings

Michael Boldin — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 19:41:27 +0000

This government “will swallow the liberties of the people, without giving them previous notice.” That’s the stark warning Patrick Henry gave us in 1788. In a series of fiery speeches, he laid out some of the most powerful anti-Federalist arguments against the Constitution—predicting all kinds of abuses of power and the eventual destruction of liberty. In this episode, we’re breaking down six categories of his most urgent warnings, each filled with powerful quotes we can’t afford to ignore any longer.

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Patrick Henry – Letter to George Washington (19 Oct 1787)

Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Virginia Ratifying Convention (17 June 1788)

Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Episode – Bill of Rights: 5 Hidden Truths They Never Teach

Henry Lee – Letter to James Madison (19 Nov 1788)

Patrick Henry – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (28 Aug 1789)

Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)

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Boston Tea Party? It Actually Started in Philadelphia!

Michael Boldin — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:02:03 +0000

“The active business of the American Revolution began in Philadelphia.” That’s what Benjamin Rush and John Adams believed – because the spark that ignited the Boston Tea Party wasn’t in Boston. It was lit in Philadelphia on October 16, 1773. This forgotten piece of history involves fiery protests, bold resolutions, and even letters from the Committee on Tarring and Feathering.

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Maharrey – Before Boston: The Tea Revolt That Began in Philadelphia

History.com – British parliament passes unpopular Tea Act

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Thomas Cushing (4 June 1773)

Thomas Cushing – Letter to Benjamin Franklin (10 Dec 1773)

Scaevola – By Uniting We Stand – By Dividing We Fall (11 Oct 1773)

The Philadelphia Resolutions (16 Oct 1773)

Samuel Adams – Resolutions of the Town of Boston (5 Nov 1773)

Plymouth Resolutions Against the Tea Act (7 Dec 1773)

To the Delaware Pilots and Capt. Ayers (27 Nov 1773)

Philadelphia – Town Resolutions (27 Dec 1773)

Samuel Cooper – Letter to Benjamin Franklin (17 Dec 1773)

Benjamin Rush – Letter to John Adams (14 Aug 1809)

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Forgotten 1774 Declaration: Precursor to Independence and Bill of Rights

Michael Boldin — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:44:30 +0000

“To these grievous measures, Americans cannot submit.” That’s the bold declaration that helped spark a coordinated resistance across the colonies in 1774. On this episode, commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress, we’ll dive into what turned out to be not only a precursor to the Declaration of Independence, but the bill of rights too.

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Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

Join or Die T-Shirt

History.com – Parliament passes the Boston Port Act

Mount Vernon – The Coercive (Intolerable) Acts of 1774

The Port Bill Received at Boston

New York Committee of Fifty-One to the Boston Committee of Correspondence (23 May 1774)

John Jay – Letter to John Vardill (23 May 1774)

Joseph Hawley – Letter to John Adams (25 July 1774)

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America

Episode – Null and Void: Thomas Jefferson’s 1774 Radical Declaration

Joseph Hawley – Broken Hints, Letter to John Adams (Aug 1774)

John Adams – Letter to William Wirt (23 Jan 1818)

John Adams, Diary (5 Sept 1774)

John Adams – Letter to Abigail Adams (16 Sept 1774)

John Adams, Diary (6 Sept 1774)

Notes of Debates in the Continental Congress (6 Sept 1774)

Episode – It was Gun Control: The Powder Alarm and the Road to Independence

Carpenter’s Hall – First Continental Congress

Episode – Blueprint for Liberty: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774

John Adams Diary (17 Sept 1774)

Episode – First of the Founding Four: Continental Association

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Cato vs the Constitution: Forgotten Anti-Federalist Arguments

Michael Boldin — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 18:31:21 +0000

“A vile and arbitrary aristocracy or monarchy” – that’s what the Anti-Federalist writer Cato warned we’d get. In a series of seven essays, he laid out his strongest arguments against ratification of the Constitution, predicting all kinds of abuses of power, and the destruction of liberty. In this episode, we’ll break down his forgotten warnings – which just might be more important than ever today.

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Jason Mandresh – Founder of the Day – Cato I

Federalist and Antifederalist: The Origin of the Terms

Cato I (27 Sept 1787)

Caesar I (1 Oct 1787)

Cato II (11 Oct 1787)

Episode – Myth Busted! Virginia, Not Congress, Called for the Philadelphia Convention

Cato IV (8 Nov 1787)

Episode – Oppress and Plunder: Antifederalist Brutus No. 3

Cato VI (13 Dec 1787)

Cato VII (3 Jan 1788)

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Jury Nullification: The People’s Secret Weapon Against Tyranny

Michael Boldin — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 19:34:20 +0000

Thomas Jefferson called the trial by jury as the only anchor ever imagined by man that can hold a government to the constitution. And jury nullification is how to get that done. In this episode, learn what it is, the history behind it and how it works. Plenty from the founders and old revolutionaries all the way to Lysander Spooner.

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T-Shirt: Jefferson, Nullification is the Rightful Remedy

Fully Informed Jury Association – What is Jury Nullification

John Jay – The State of Georgia v. Brailsford, et al. (1794)

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia (1781-82)

Elbridge Gerry – Philadelphia Convention (12 Sept 1787)

William Findley – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (8 Dec 1787)

Clay S. Conrad – Trial by Jury

Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England Book 3 (1765-69)

Brittany Hunter – Pacific Legal Foundation

Blackstone – Commentaries Book II – Chapter 23 – Of the Trial by Jury

Lysander Spooner, An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

George Mason – Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Paine (11 July 1789)

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Most Important and Most Ignored: James Wilson’s State House Yard Speech

Michael Boldin — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:42:08 +0000

Everyone’s heard of the Federalist Papers – Hamilton, Madison, Jay – but the most important Federalist speech in the entire ratification debate didn’t come from any of them. It came from James Wilson – a name most people have never even heard of. His 1787 State House Yard Speech laid the foundation for the entire Federalist playbook. In this episode, we’ll explore why he gave the speech, why it had such a huge impact, and dive into Wilson’s key arguments for the Constitution.

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Tara Ross – James Wilson’s State House Speech

Concordia University – A Daily Journal for Sept 29, 1787

Center for the Study of the American Constitution

Natelson – The Founders and the Constitution: James Wilson

James Wilson – State House Yard Speech – Full Text (6 Oct 1787)

Episode – Bill of Rights: 5 Hidden Truths They Never Teach

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (20 Dec 1787)

A Democratic Federalist (17 Oct 1787)

George Washington – Letter to David Stuart (17 Oct 1787)

Scott Douglas Gerger – Chapter 5. James Wilson: Democratic Theorist and Supreme Court Justice

Natelson – The False Doctrine of Inherent Sovereign Authority

Benner – James Wilson’s State House Yard Speech: A Primer

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Bill of Rights: 5 Hidden Truths They Never Teach

Michael Boldin — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 19:33:44 +0000

Most of what they teach about the Bill of Rights completely skips over much of the real history. From the reason the Federalists opposed it, to Madison’s flip-flop, and the totally ignored preamble – on this episode, I’ve got 5 key – and mostly hidden – truths about that just might change the way you view the Bill of Rights.

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George Washington – Circular to the Governors of the States (2 Oct 1789)

1. Federalists didn’t want it – thought it was superfluous – even dangerous

Philadelphia Convention (12 Sept 1787)

Philadelphia Convention (15 Sept 1787)

James Wilson – State House Yard Speech (6 Oct 1787)

Tench Coxe – An American Citizen (21 Oct 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 84 (16 July 1788)

2. Key Players

Episode – George Mason vs the Constitution: Top Anti-Federalist Arguments

Federal Farmer No IV (12 Oct 1787)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Edward Carrington (27 May 1788)

3. Madison’s Flip Flop

James Madison – Letter to George Washington (15 Feb 1788)

The Congressional Election of 1789

James Madison – Letter to George Eve (2 Jan 1789)

George Washington – First Inaugural (30 Apr 1789)

4. Preamble

Bill of Rights Transcript

Episode – Incorporation: Applying the Bill of Rights to the States

5. What Didn’t Make It

James Madison – Speech Introducing Proposed Amendments (8 June 1789)

Episode – The Other 16th Amendment: Separation of Powers

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NULLIFY THEM: Jefferson’s Rightful Remedy from the American Revolution

Michael Boldin — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 19:39:10 +0000

“A nullification of the act is THE rightful remedy.” That’s how Thomas Jefferson said we should respond to any federal act that goes beyond the limits of the Constitution. But here’s the thing – Jefferson wasn’t inventing something new in 1798. He was reminding us of principles that were at the heart of the American Revolution – ideas the people used to resist tyranny. And today, those principles are more important than ever.

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Kentucky Resolutions – Jefferson’s Fair Copy (Before 10 Oct 1798)

Episode – Null and Void: Thomas Jefferson’s 1774 Radical Declaration

A Summary View of the Rights of British America

James Otis, Jr. – Speech in the Writs of Assistance Case (24 Feb 1761)

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

Roger Sherman (7 Dec 1787)

John Adams – Argument before Governor Bernard and the Council in Favor of Opening the Courts (20 Dec 1765)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves Against the Stamp act (29 May 1765)

Maharrey – Prelude to Independence: Thomas Jefferson Declares British Acts Null and Void

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 15 (4 Feb 1721)

John Jay – Address to the People of the State of New York (1788)

George Mason – Virginia Declaration of Rights (12 June 1776)

Maharrey – Sovereignty and Agency

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the new Constitution (1788)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

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RESIST THEM: Samuel Adams’ Forgotten Call for Liberty

Michael Boldin — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 17:23:43 +0000

Nearly five years before the Declaration of Independence, Samuel Adams wrote an essay urging the people to resist tyranny – not tamely submit and hope for the best. For Adams, it was a moral imperative to stand up for what’s right, even against the most powerful government in history. Unfortunately, his bold call for liberty has been almost entirely forgotten. Today, in commemoration of his birthday, we’re uncovering what Adams warned us about – his message is more urgent than ever.

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John Adams – Diary (11 Feb 1779)

Proclamation by Governour Gage (12 June 1775)

John Adams – Diary (23 Dec 1765)

Samuel Adams: Article Signed Candidus – October 14, 1771

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Rebellion to Tyrants: The Sermon that Sparked the Revolution

Michael Boldin — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 19:53:30 +0000

“Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.” Just after the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776, a committee of Jefferson, Adams, and Franklin worked to design a great seal for the United States – and it included that powerful phrase on the reverse. While we don’t know who originally wrote it, we can trace its roots to Jonathan Mayhew’s widely read but mostly forgotten 1750 sermon on resisting tyranny. In it, he laid the moral and philosophical foundation for the Revolution – and in this episode, you’re going to learn all about it.

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John Adams – Letter to to Hezekiah Niles (13 Feb 1818)

John Adams – Letter to William Tudor, Sr. (5 Apr 1818)

Wiki: Thomas Mayhew

Kegan Foley – West End Museum

Biblia – Romans 13:1-14

Eric Patterson – Providence Mag

Thomas Aquinas – Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard (c. 1254–1256)

Sarah Morgan Smith, Ellen Deitz Tucker, David Tucker – Teaching American History

Full Text – A discourse concerning unlimited submission and non-resistance to the higher powers (1750)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

Lysander Spooner – No Treason No VI (1870)

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Gary Galles – Mises Institute

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Join or Die: Benjamin Franklin’s Forgotten Call for Union (1754)

Michael Boldin — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 19:35:49 +0000

Before the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin had a bold idea to unite the colonies – an idea most people have never heard of. In 1754, just before the Albany Congress, he published his famous “Join or Die” cartoon, symbolizing his forgotten call for colonial unity. Although it was rejected, Franklin believed this plan could have changed the course of American history.

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Tom Hand – Americana Corner

T-Shirt: JOIN OR DIE (men’s here) (women’s here)

Timothy J. Shannon, Gettysburg College – via Bill of Rights Institute

James Caldwell – USConstitution.net

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to James Parker (20 Mar 1751)

Natelson – Did the Iroquois Confederation influence the Constitution?

The Constitution of the Iroquois Nations: The Great Law of Peace

Indian treaties printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1736-1762

Join or Die (9 May 1754)

Constitution Center – The story behind the Join or Die snake cartoon

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Richard Partridge (8 May 1754)

Dept of State, Office of the Historian

Short Hints towards a Scheme for Uniting the Northern Colonies (8 June 1754)

Committee: Short Hints towards a Scheme for a General Union of the British Colonies on the Continent (28 June 1754)

The Albany Plan of Union (10 July 1754)

Natelson – The Albany Plan of Union: Another Predecessor to the Constitution

John Adams – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (10 Nov 1787)

Steven Pincus – Confederal Union and Empire: Placing the Albany Plan (1754) in Imperial Context

Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson (29 Dec 1754)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Governor William Shirley (22 Dec 1754)

Episode – Mercantilism Before the Tea Party: Forgotten Grievance of the Revolution

William Clarke – Letter to Benjamin Franklin (3 Feb 1755)

Intended Vindication and Offer from Congress to Parliament (before 21 July 1775)

James Madison – Letter to John Adams (7 Aug 1818)

James Madison – Origins of the Constitutional Convention (Dec 1835)

Benjamin Franklin – Remark (9 Feb 1789)

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The #1 Thing That Destroys Liberty

Michael Boldin — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 19:48:07 +0000

Government has always been a massive threat to liberty – we can all agree on that. But there’s something even more dangerous, what the founders and old revolutionaries called the doctrine of “passive obedience and non-resistance.”

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Samuel Adams, Candidus – Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

George Washington – Circular to the States (8 June 1783)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves Against the Stamp Act (29 May 1765)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (Nov 1765)

Thomas Gordon as Cato Letter’s No. 42 (26 Aug 1721)

John Adams – A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law No. 2 (19 Aug 1765)

John Adams – Letter to William Tudor, Sr. (5 Apr 1818)

Jonathan Mayhew – A Discourse Concerning Unlimited Submission and Non-Resistance to the Higher Powers (31 Dec 1750)

James Otis, Jr – The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)

Thomas Paine – The Crisis IV (13 Sept 1777)

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2 Ignored Warnings from George Washington’s Farewell Address

Michael Boldin — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 20:21:30 +0000

George Washington warned us – and we ignored him. In his Farewell Address, he gave crucial advice that’s been totally rejected for years, and today we’re paying the price. In this episode, learn about two of his most important warnings – that we can’t afford to ignore any longer.

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James Madison’s Draft (20 June 1792)

George Washington’s Mount Vernon

Washington Papers – A Documentary Dilemma: Editing the Farewell Address

Alexander Hamilton – Draft of Washington’s Farewell Address (30 July 1796)

Wikisource – Washington’s Farewell

Episode – The Founders’ Education

McClanahan Academy – 26 Speeches That Changed America

Farewell Address – Full Text

McClanahan – Why Was Washington a Nationalist?

Episode – No Permanent Alliances: Foreign Policy of Washington and Jefferson

Maharrey – The Unheeded Advice in George Washington’s Farewell Address

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Constitution: The Wisest Part According to James Madison

Michael Boldin — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 21:28:57 +0000

The wisest part of the Constitution – James Madison specifically singled out one clause where he said the most wisdom is found. And what a surprise – not only is his view completely ignored today, the clause itself has been twisted into exactly what he warned against.

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Helvidius No. 4 (14 Sept 1793)

Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Episode – The Other 16th Amendment: Separation of Powers

Maharrey – War Powers: The True History of James Madison, the Constitution and the War of 1812

Helvidius II (31 Aug 1793)

Helvidius III (7 Sept 1793)

Natelson – Obama’s Libyan Operations are Unconstitutional

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Congress (6 Dec 1805)

Special Message to Congress on the Foreign Policy Crisis – War Message (1 June 1812)

Helvidius I (24 Aug 1793)

Special Message to Congress (23 Feb 1815)

An Act for the protection of the commerce of the United States against the Algerine cruisers (3 Mar 1815)

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Null and Void: Thomas Jefferson’s 1774 Radical Declaration

Michael Boldin — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 21:57:52 +0000

Two years before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson penned a long and detailed list of grievances regarding British acts going back more than a century. He not only referred to them as a “nullity” but pointed out that “we declare them void.” Jefferson’s pamphlet, “A Summary View of the Rights of British America,” is an incredibly important part of the foundation of the American Revolution – something the government-run schools barely even mention today.

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Virginia Museum of History & Culture

Maharrey – Prelude to Independence: Jefferson Declares British Acts Null and Void

Monticello Transcript – A Summary View of the Rights of British America

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Episode – The Ignored “Fundamental Principle” of the American Revolution

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Free and Independent States: Forgotten Conclusion of the American Revolution

Michael Boldin — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:39:18 +0000

Signed on Sept 3, 1783 – the Treaty of Paris was intended to end the war for independence. But the war didn’t officially end on that date with the signatures of Franklin, John Adams and John Jay. The treaty, made with 13 free, sovereign, and independent states, still needed their approval, and it almost didn’t happen. This forgotten history reveals the true nature of the revolutionary American system.

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Tara Ross

Maharrey – Don’t Miss the Most Important Part of the Declaration of Independence

John Hancock – Letter to George Washington (6 July 1776)

Treaty of Paris – The Definitive Treaty of Peace Between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of America (3 Sept 1783)

Wolverton – Free Sovereign and Independent States: George III and the Treaty of Paris

John Adams to the President of Congress (5 Sept 1783)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Josiah Quincy (11 Sept 1783)

John Jay – Letter to Robert Morris (12 Sept 1783)

Maryland State House – Proclaiming Peace, Ratification of the Treaty of Paris

The Story Behind the Proclamation of Peace

Winter of 1783-1784

Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on Early Career

Ratification Day – Jefferson’s Compromise

Benner – Treaty of Paris Ratified, Formally Ending War for Independence

Thomas Jefferson – Peace Proclamation (14 Jan 1784)

History.com – Treaty of Paris – Northwest Territory

Episode – History Ignored: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

John Jay to Gouverneur Morris (24 Sept 1783)

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DOJ vs Missouri 2nd Amendment Preservation Act: Round 2, Feds Win

Michael Boldin — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:45:53 +0000

The feds just won round two against Missouri’s 2nd Amendment Preservation Act. But here’s the kicker – they didn’t say it’s unconstitutional for what it does, but for the words it uses. In this episode, get a full breakdown of what happened in the Eighth Circuit – and the very clear path to liberty going forward.

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Signed by the Governor: Missouri 2nd Amendment Preservation Act Now in Effect

Eighth Circuit Opinion

Episode – States Can Check Federal Power: Anti-Commandeering Explained

DOJ Press Release on Lawsuit (2022)

Somin – Eighth Circuit Wrongly Struck Down Missouri’s Gun Sanctuary Law—But Also Created a Roadmap for How Such Laws Can Escape Invalidation in the Future

Missouri HB85 full text

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

10th Amendment: Why the Supremacy Clause Doesn’t Apply When States Opt Out

Episode – Using the 10th Amendment to Defend the 2nd, a Brief History

Michael Ramsey – Federal Supremacy and US v Missouri

Montana Governor Informs Feds State Won’t Enforce New Pistol Brace Gun Control Rule

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10 Overlooked Founders Who Helped Shape the Constitution

Michael Boldin — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:01:07 +0000

While names like Madison, Hamilton, and Washington often dominate discussions about the Constitution, many other Founders played vital roles in shaping it. In this episode, we’re uncovering the contributions of ten often-overlooked figures who significantly influenced the Constitution – some you may know, and others that might surprise you. Get ready to discover the often-ignored stories of Founders like Wilson, Dickinson, Rutledge, Mason, Randolph, and more, whose contributions deserve our attention.

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The Founders and the Constitution: Introduction

Episode – Was the Constitution Sold on a Lie? Shays’ Rebellion and Ratification

Episode – Benjamin Franklin’s Articles of Confederation

Episode – George Mason’s Anti-Federalist Objections

Episode – Patrick Henry: Top Anti-Federalist Warnings

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Illusion of Freedom Under the Largest Government in History

Michael Boldin — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:53:32 +0000

With the largest government in history controlling almost every aspect of our lives, it’s time to ask: are we truly free, or just told we are? In this episode, we’re pulling back the curtain to reveal the uncomfortable truth.

Path to Liberty: August 26, 2024

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John Whitehead – The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia (1785)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania XI (1767)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft of the Kentucky Resolutions (Oct. 1798)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania VII (1767)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Maharrey – The Biggest Most Powerful Government in the History of the World?

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part the Second (1792)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (17 Sept 1787)

Maharrey – Benjamin Franklin Urges Adoption of the Constitution with a Warning

Lysander Spooner – No Treason VI (1870)

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17th Amendment Myth Busted: There was no Recall Power

Michael Boldin — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 02:01:19 +0000

A lot of people believe that before the 17th amendment, state legislatures had the power to recall and replace senators in congress. But that’s nothing more than a myth. Records from the ratification debates show that this power never existed under the Constitution.

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Articles of Confederation – Article V

Philadelphia Convention (12 June 1787)

Edmund Randolph – Philadelphia Convention (16 June 1787)

Elbridge Gerry – Philadelphia Convention (14 Aug 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – New York Ratifying Convention (24 June 1788)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – New York Ratifying Convention (25 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (12 June 1788)

Federal Farmer X (7 Jan 1788)

Luther Martin – Genuine Information IV (8 Jan 1788)

Dr. Taylor – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (14 Jan 1788)

Col William Jones – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (19 Jan 1788)

Major Martin Kingsley – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (21 Jan 1788)

Gilbert Livingston – New York Ratifying Convention (24 June 1788)

John Lansing – New York Ratifying Convention (24 June 1788)

Ratification of the Constitution by the State of New York (26 July 1788)

Amendments Proposed by Rhode Island (29 May 1790)

James Barbour – Letter to James Madison (11 Dec 1807)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

Episode – The Imperial Senate: Anti-Federalist Warnings

Episode – 17th Amendment: Did it Destroy the Structure of the Constitution?

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Mercantilism Before the Tea Party: Forgotten Grievance of the Revolution

Michael Boldin — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 18:44:41 +0000

When government-run schools teach that the American Revolution was mostly about “taxation without representation,” the underlying message is clear: today, you have representatives, so if you don’t like what they do, just get new ones. But this ignores a deeper cause – a centuries-old system called mercantilism. Murray Rothbard described it as “a system of statism using economic fallacy to build up imperial power through monopolies and special privileges.” This was a significant part of the real foundation of colonial grievances, long before the Stamp Act and tea taxes ever sparked broader resistance and calls for independence.

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Maharrey – Mercantilism and the Road to the American Revolution

Rothbard – Mercantilism: A Lesson for our Times?

Wiki – Navigation Acts

Thomas Jefferson – Summary View of the Rights of British America

John C. Miller – Origins of the American revolution

James A. Northington – Forging a Revolution: John Taylor at Sarum

George H. Smith – Americans with Attitudes: Smuggling in Colonial America

Sugar Act of 1764

Jayne E. Triber – National Park Service

Samuel Adams – Instructions to Boston’s Representatives (28 May 1764)

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The Ignored “Fundamental Principle” of the American Revolution

Michael Boldin — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 23:38:34 +0000

Think the American Revolution was just about taxes and tea parties? Think again. The real battle was over a much deeper issue: the colonists’ unwavering belief in their right to local, self-government vs a British claim of unlimited power. James Madison called this clash the “fundamental principle on which our independence itself was declared.” But he was far from alone. In this episode, we’ll dive into the insights of Madison, plus more from people like Jefferson, Hancock, Paine, and others to uncover the forgotten truth behind the Revolution.

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Maharrey – James Madison on the Ignored “Fundamental Principle of the Revolution”

Patrick Henry – Resolves Against the Stamp Act (29 May 1765)

Maharrey – The American Revolution Was a Rejection of Unlimited, Centralized Power

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)

Thomas Paine – The Crisis I (27 Dec 1776)

Benjamin Franklin – Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One (11 Sept 1773)

Episode – Benjamin Franklin’s Rules for Bringing Down Empires

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17th Amendment: Did it Destroy the Structure of the Constitution?

Michael Boldin — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 18:28:15 +0000

When the framers designed the Senate, they envisioned it as a safeguard for the states, with a key component being state legislatures choosing two senators instead of the people at large. But in 1913, the 17th Amendment removed this critical part of the system. In this episode, get a deep dive into this long-forgotten aspect of the original Constitution – how it came to be, the four reasons they set it up this way, and the warnings we were given against changing it to what we have today.

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17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators (1913)

Connecticut compromise

John Dickinson – Philadelphia Convention (6 June 1787)

Roger Sherman – Philadelphia Convention (11 June 1787)

New Jersey Plan

Alexander Hamilton – Philadelphia Convention (18 June 1787)

The Founders and the Constitution: The Connecticut Delegates

The Founders and the Constitution: Benjamin Franklin

Rufus King – Philadelphia Convention (14 July 1787)

James Madison – Federalist 62 (27 Feb 1788)

Fisher Ames – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (19 Jan 1788)

Tench Coxe on the Senate: A Counter to Anti-Federalist Aristocracy Fears

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (25 July 1788)

Episode – George Mason vs the Constitution: Top Anti-Federalist Arguments

James Madison – Federalist 63 (1 Mar 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (27 Nov 1787)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Gov. Johnston – North Carolina Ratification Debates (25 July 1788)

John Jay – Federalist 64 (7 Mar 1788)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (6 June 1788)

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States Can Check Federal Power: Anti-Commandeering Explained

Michael Boldin — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 18:32:57 +0000

Government-run schools never teach that states have the power to stop federal programs simply by refusing to implement or enforce them. James Madison gave us the blueprint, and the supreme court has repeatedly upheld it as the anti-commandeering doctrine for over 180 years.

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Anti-Commandeering: An overview of five major Supreme Court cases

New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992)

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

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Executive Branch: President, not a King (Federalist Arguments)

Michael Boldin — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 18:56:25 +0000

American presidents act almost like elected kings, with vast powers and very little accountability. But that wasn’t the plan. Responding to anti-federalist warnings that presidents would eventually degenerate into a type of monarchy, Federalists like Tench Coxe, John Dickinson, James Iredell, and many others went into great detail explaining how the power of the executive branch would be extremely limited in comparison to the British Monarchy they fought a long, bloody war to free themselves from.

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The Debate Over the President and the Executive Branch

Episode – Is the President a King in Disguise? The Anti-Federalist Argument

Maharrey – Tench Coxe on the Executive Branch: President, not a King

Tench Coxe – An American Citizen I (26 Sept 1787)

John Dickinson – Fabius II (15 Apr 1788)

John Dickinson – Fabius IX (1 May 1788)

James Iredell – Marcus, Response to George Mason (1788)

Americanus II (23 Nov 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 69 (14 Mar 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (4 Dec 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 66 (8 Mar 1788)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (26 July 1788)

James Madison – Helvidius No. 1 (24 Aug 1793)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 70 (18 Mar 1788)

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New ATF Report: Gun Control Enforcement Near Record Highs Again

Michael Boldin — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 19:01:09 +0000

Despite what supporters of the monster state want you to believe, “shall not be infringed” means exactly what it says. Yet, today – we have another example proving that words on paper can’t enforce themselves: The latest annual report from the ATF reveals that federal gun control enforcement is close to record levels – once again. And even though they want YOU to believe it’s “for your safety,” almost all their top enforcement actions are for paperwork violations.

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St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Report: 2023 Federal Gun Control Enforcement Near Record Levels

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

Noah Webster – An Examination Into the Leading Principles of America (17 Oct 1787)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. IX (1767)

The Federal Gun Laws Trump Is Proud to Enforce

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Parchment Barrier: Ignored Truth About the Constitution

Michael Boldin — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 17:38:43 +0000

The Constitution can’t enforce itself. It never could – and never will. That’s because mere words on paper – what many founders called “parchment barriers” – don’t actually stop government people from doing what they want.

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Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

John Adams – Letter to John Quincy Adams (20 Jan 1805)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 Oct 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 73 (21 Mar 1788)

Joseph Jones – Letter to James Madison (2 Mar 1792)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)

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Founding Fathers Warn of a National Debt Doomsday!

Michael Boldin — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:54:14 +0000

America is drowning in debt – and teetering on the brink. We’ve just hit a new, unthinkable milestone: a national debt of $35 trillion. This isn’t just a number; it’s a ticking time bomb. The Founding Fathers warned us about this “public curse,” a financial abyss that would swallow our freedoms if left unchecked. In this episode we’ll revisit their chilling warnings and explore how we’re ignoring their wisdom at our own peril.

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Treasury FiscalData: Debt to the Penny

Maharrey – Our “Public Curse” Just Eclipsed $35 Trillion

Maharrey – Putting the National Debt Into Perspective We Can All Understand

John Adams – Letter to Abigail Adams (5 May 1794)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to George Washington (23 May 1792)

John Taylor of Caroline – An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

George Washington – Fifth Annual Message to Congress (3 Dec 1793)

James Monroe – First Inaugural Address (4 Mar 1817)

Alexander Hamilton – Letter to Rober Morris (30 Apr 1781)

Alexander Hamilton – Report Relative to a Provision for the Support of Public Credit (9 Jan 1790)

James Madison – The Union. Who are its Real Friends? (31 Mar 1792)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to George Washington (9 Sept 1792)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to John Taylor (28 May 1816)

John Adams – First Annual Message to Congress (22 Nov 1797)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Samuel Kercheval (12 July 1816)

James Madison – Letter to Henry Lee (13 Apr 1790)

Francis Corbin – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

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James Madison’s Shocking Plan: A Blueprint for Total Control

Michael Boldin — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 19:29:42 +0000

Imagine a United States where a national government holds almost absolute power over the states, with the authority to veto any state law and even send in troops to enforce its will. This was the audacious vision of James Madison, the man we know as the “Father of the Constitution.” But the Constitution we have today is far different from the Virginia Plan he originally drew up.

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Kevin Gutzman – Constituting America Essay

Notes on Ancient and Modern Confederacies, [April–June?] 1786

Vices of the Political System of the U. States (April 1787)

Episode – Tax Battle! Henry vs Hamilton on the requisition system

National Archives – Vices

Episode – Was the Constitution Sold on a Lie? Shays’ Rebellion and Ratification

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (19 Mar 1787)

Maharrey – James Madison on the Ignored “Fundamental Principle of the Revolution”

James Madison – Letter to Edmund Randolph (8 Apr 1787)

James Madison – Letter to George Washington (16 Apr 1787)

Episode – Myth Busted! Virginia, Not Congress, Called for the Philadelphia Convention

The Virginia Plan (29 May 1787)

Natelson – The Virginia Plan and the General Welfare Clause

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (20 June 1787)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (6 Sept 1787)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 Oct 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (20 Dec 1787)

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George Mason vs the Constitution: Top Anti-Federalist Arguments

Michael Boldin — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 20:37:37 +0000

“A monarchy, or a corrupt tyrannical aristocracy” is what George Mason predicted we’d get. On this episode, learn about his top anti-federalist objections to the Constitution during the ratification debates. This included necessary and proper, standing armies, congress, the president – and more.

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Madison’s Notes – Philadelphia Convention (31 Aug 1787)

Pauline Maier – The First Dissenters

George Mason – Letter to George Washington (7 Oct 1787)

George Mason – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (26 May 1788)

George Mason’s Objections to the Constitution (22 Nov 1787)

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Is the President a King in Disguise? The Anti-Federalist Argument

Michael Boldin — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 19:16:35 +0000

During the debates over the ratification of the Constitution, Antifederalists repeatedly warned that the President would become like a king – and the worst kind of a king – an elected one.

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The Executive Branch–The Federalist/Antifederalist Debates

George Mason – Plan for the Virginia Constitution (8-10 June 1776)

SINGLE EXECUTIVE

Pennsylvania Constitution (28 Sept 1776)

Madison’s Notes – Philadelphia Convention (4 June 1787)

George Mason’s Objections to the Constitution (22 Nov 1787)

BLENDED WITH OTHER BRANCHES

Montesquieu – The Spirit of the Laws (1748)

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

Dissent of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention (18 Dec 1787)

Impartial Examiner IV (11 June 1788)

LOADS OF POWER

Cato IV (8 Nov 1787)

An Old Whig V (1 Nov 1787)

MONARCH

Luther Martin – Genuine Information IX (29 Jan 1788)

Philadelphiensis IX (6 Feb 1788)

Philadelphiensis X (20 Feb 1788)

Tamony – Virginia Independent Chronicle (9 Jan 1788)

PATRICK HENRY

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (12 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

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The “Evils of Paper Money” Have No End: The Founders Warned us Why

Michael Boldin — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 19:50:11 +0000

The Founding Fathers were deeply worried about the dangers of paper money, because they lived them first hand. On this episode, learn 4 key ways the founders warned us about the dangers of paper money – dangers we’re still living through today!

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Edward Carrington (27 May 1788)

Thomas Paine – Dissertations on Government: The Affairs of the Bank, and Paper Money

Benjamin Rush – Letter to John Adams (23 June 1781)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to George Mason (15 May 1787)

CAUSE OF PRICE INFLATION

Benjamin Franklin – Of the Paper Money of America (1780)

Samuel Adams – Letter to John Winthrop (6 Feb 1779)

Gouverneur Morris – Letter to George Washington (11 Jan 1796)

William Fleming – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (22 May 1779)

Thomas Jefferson – Additional Queries, with Jefferson’s Answers (Jan-Feb 1786)

EMPOWERS GOVERNMENT

Thomas Paine – Letter to George Washington

Charles Carroll – Letter to Benjamin Franklin (12 Aug 1777)

HIDDEN TAX

George Washington – Letter to Gouverneur Morris (26 Oct 1778)

FACILITATES EVERY SPECIES OF FRAUD AND INJUSTICE

Thomas Jefferson – Plan for Reducing the Circulating Medium (23 Nov 1819)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Albert Gallatin (26 Dec 1820)

George Washington – Letter to Jabez Bowen (9 Jan 1787)

John Adams – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 Feb 1819)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to John Adams (21 Mar 1819)

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Myth Busted! Virginia, Not Congress, Called for the Philadelphia Convention

Michael Boldin — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:37:24 +0000

Most people seem to believe that the constitutional convention of 1787 was called for by Congress under the Articles of Confederation. Even the Library of Congress makes this claim. But it’s totally false. It was actually the Commonwealth of Virginia that initiated the call for the Philadelphia convention – and she was followed by a number of other states before congress ever shared their opinion in early 1787. Learn the truth – receipts included.

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Library of Congress – May 1787 the Beginning of the Constitutional Convention

Library of Virginia

Alexander Hamilton – Annapolis Convention Resolution (14 Sept 1786)

Natelson – Who Called the Constitutional Convention? The Commonwealth of Virginia

Virginia Act For Appointing Deputies To The 1787 Philadelphia Convention (23 Nov 1786)

New Jersey – Resolution Authorizing and Empowering the Delegates (24 Nov 1786)

Wiki: Constitution of the United States

Confederation Congress – Resolution in Support of Convention (21 Feb 1787)

Edmund Randolph – Philadelphia Convention (29 May 1787)

Hugh H. Brackenridge – Pittsburgh Gazette (27 Oct 1787)

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Forgotten Founder Tench Coxe: Ignored Federalist Papers

Michael Boldin — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 19:26:37 +0000

Almost totally ignored today, Tench Coxe was famous at the time of the Founding. And his essays of “A Pennsylvanian” in support of the Constitution were actually far more widely read and influential during the debates over ratification than today’s far more famous Federalist Papers. Learn about his essays where he came down in favor of the individual right to keep and bear arms, religious liberty – and a clear line in the sand between federal and state power.

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Maharrey – Beyond the Text: Understanding the Constitution’s Original Meaning

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Johnson (12 June 1823)

Natelson – More evidence the feds are exceeding their powers

Maharrey – How Tench Coxe Shaped the Ratification Debates: Essays of A Pennsylvanian

Natelson – More News on Powers Reserved Exclusively to the States

Cooke – Tench Coxe and the Early Republic

The Address and reasons of dissent of the minority of the convention, of the state of Pennsylvania, to their constituents

Natelson – More evidence the feds are exceeding their powers

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Cause and Solution: The Founders on Political Violence

Michael Boldin — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:21:53 +0000

“A frightful despotism” – that’s what George Washington predicted we’d get with a combo of factions and usurpation of power. But he was far from alone in warning against what leads to political violence. Ignoring their warnings – and solution – only guarantees the worst has yet to begin.

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Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (2 June 1787)

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution/Chapter XXXI

John Adams – Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 Oct 1780)

Thomas Gordon – The Works of Sallust (1744)

Thomas Paine – Dissertation on the First Principles of Government

Thomas Paine – The Rights of Man, Part II (1792)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Elbridge Gerry (22 Aug 1789)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (6 June 1788)

Episode: Constitution Enforcement Mechanism

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History Ignored: The Northwest Ordinance of 1787

Michael Boldin — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 21:29:38 +0000

One of the most important foundational documents in American history, the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 is one that most people never learn about. Following principles outlined by Thomas Jefferson in 1784, it included a precursor to the bill of rights four years before one was added to the Constitution, it banned slavery in the territories decades before the same language was copied into the 13th Amendment, and led to the creation of the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin.

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Ronald Reagan – Proclamation 5676 — Northwest Ordinance Bicentennial Day, 1987

Maharrey – Northwest Ordinance: Landmark 1787 Law Set the Foundation

MAP – Northwest Ordinance

Report of the Committee (1 Mar 1784)

Jefferson’s Observations on DéMeunier’s Manuscript (22 June 1786)

Northwest Ordinance – Full Text

13th Amendment

Center for the Study of the American Constitution

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Big Wins for Liberty: State Laws Push Back vs Feds (CBDC, 2A Privacy, More)

Michael Boldin — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:45:15 +0000

Despite all the bad things happening all around us – there actually is some GOOD news to report! New state laws going into effect this summer push back on centralized power by rejecting a CBDC, prohibiting a new scheme to track firearm purchases, support sound money, raw milk – and more. Don’t miss this update on the latest news from the Nullification Movement!

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CBDC

Episode – James Madison vs a Central Bank Digital Currency

RAW MILK

West Virginia

Delaware

SOUND MONEY

New Jersey

New Jersey Legislature Glossary of Terms – Pocket Veto

FIREARM PRIVACY

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 OCt 1771)

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Forgotten Declaration: Cause of the War for Independence Explained

Michael Boldin — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 20:44:15 +0000

The American Revolution: What REALLY sparked the fight? This episode explores an almost totally forgotten declaration written by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson in 1775. The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms is an incredibly important document revealing the colonists’ motivations beyond what history books tell you.

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It Was Gun Control: What Started the War for Independence

No Deal for Gun Control: How the American Revolutionaries Defied the Empire

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)

Episode – The Revolution vs Unlimited, Centralized Power

The Forgotten Declaration that Explained the War for Independence

Proclamation by Gov Gage (12 June 1775)

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Tired of Endless Political Fraud? There’s a Real Path to Liberty

Michael Boldin — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:29:55 +0000

Honesty in politics? Yeah, we know – sounds impossible. But check out this episode and join us on a true path to liberty.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: June 28, 2024

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Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Thomas Lee Shippen (21 Sept 1791)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Lafayette (2 Apr 1790)

John Adams – “U” to the Boston Gazette (29 Aug 1763)

Thomas Paine – Forester Letter III, Pennsylvania Journal (24 Apr 1776)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Jane Mecom (1 Nov 1773)

Samuel Adams – Loyalty and Sedition (1748)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Rev. Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)

James Otis, Jr – Of the Natural Rights of Colonists (1763)

Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Dr. Joseph Warren – Massacre Day Oration (5 Mar 1772)

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Resist and Nullify: The American Revolution’s Fundamental Principle

Michael Boldin — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 20:05:10 +0000

The American Revolution wasn’t just about throwing off a king. It was built on a radical idea: that the people have the right to resist and nullify usurpations of power by any government. Today, we’ll dive deep into this secret weapon for liberty from the founding fathers – something they not only considered a right, but a duty.

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John Jay – Letter to Samuel Miller (28 Feb 1800)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Nov 1787)

Patrick Henry – Resolutions Against the Stamp Act (29 May 1765)

John Adams – Letter to William Tudor, Sr (21 Aug 1818)

John Adams – Letter to William Tudor, Sr (16 Aug 1818)

John Locke – Two Treatises of Civil Government (1689)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 42 (26 Aug 1721)

Alexander Hamilton – The Farmer Refuted (23 Feb 1775)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

William Emerson – An Oration in Commemoration of the Anniversary of American Independence (1802)

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10th Amendment: Top-5 Principles from the American Revolution

Michael Boldin — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 19:55:02 +0000

Thomas Jefferson called the 10th Amendment the “foundation of the Constitution” for a reason. It enshrines many of the very principles that sparked the American Revolution – principles that even shaped his words in the Declaration of Independence! In this episode, we’ll dive into these Top 5 revolutionary ideas that have been ignored for far too long.

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Wiki: Divine Right of Kings

David Ramsay – The History of the American Revolution (1789)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government, Section 20 (1690)

George Mason – Virginia Declaration of Rights (12 June 1776)

Robert Livingston – New York Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788)

Enos Hitchcock – Oration in Commemoration Independence (4 July 1793)

Maharrey – Sovereignty and Agency

James Otis, Jr – Rights of the British Colonies, Asserted and Proved (1764)

Thomas Paine – Dissertations on Government (1786)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Nov 1787)

James Otis, Jr – Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists (4 Sept 1765)

John Jay – Address to the People of New York (1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

James Otis, Jr – Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762)

Episode – Arbitrary Government: How the Founders Defined Tyranny

Maryland Farmer No. 3. Part 1 (7 Mar 1788)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

James Otis Jr – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

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Was the Constitution Sold on a Lie? Shays’ Rebellion and Ratification

Michael Boldin — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 18:08:11 +0000

Shays’ Rebellion was repeatedly cited by Federalists as a primary reason to replace the Articles of Confederation with a Constitution with a stronger central government. But what if the threat was exaggerated? Anti-Federalists sure thought so. In this episode, we’ll dive into the debate and explore James Madison’s surprising later admission about this pivotal moment in American history

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Episode – Thomas Jefferson: A Little Rebellion Now and Then

Shays’ Rebellion

Wiki – Rebellion Consequences

Maharrey – Was Shays’ Rebellion Overblown? The Debate Over the Constitution

John Jay – Letter to William Carmichael (4 Jan 1787)

George Washington – Letter to Henry Knox (3 Feb 1787)

James Madison – Vices of the Political System of the United States

Oliver Ellsworth – A Landholder V (3 Dec 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 21 (12 Dec 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 25 (21 Dec 1787)

Agrippa II (27 Nov 1787)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Centinel XVIII (9 Apr 1788)

Federal Farmer XVII (23 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Stephens Smith (13 Nov 1787)

James Madison – Letter to John G. Jackson (28 Dec 1821)

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Top 3 Anti-Federalist Arguments: Controversy over the Constitution

Michael Boldin — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 20:18:47 +0000

Was the Constitution a recipe for tyranny? That’s what Patrick Henry, Brutus, Federal Farmer and many other Anti-Federalists feared. In this episode, we’ll explore three of their top arguments against ratification and their warnings about centralized power as a massive threat to liberty.

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Carol Berkin – Inventing the American Constitution

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

A Farmer – Philadelphia Freeman’s Journal (16 Apr 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

The Dissent of the Minority of the Pennsylvania Convention (18 Dec 1787)

Episode – Consolidation Leads to Force: Anti-Federalist Cato No. 3

Episode – The Dangers of Consolidation: Anti-Federalist Brutus No. 1

William Grayson – Virginia Ratifying Convention (11 June 1788)

Federal Farmer IV (12 Oct 1787)

Episode – Infinite‌ ‌and‌ ‌Incomprehensible:‌ ‌Anti-Federalist‌ ‌Brutus‌ ‌No.‌ ‌5‌

Elbridge Gerry to President of Senate and Speaker of House of Representatives of Massachusetts (18 Oct 1787)

Brutus XI (31 Jan 1788)

Brutus XII (7 Feb 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (23 June 1788)

Impartial Examiner I (20 Feb 1788)

John DeWitt II (27 Oct 1787)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (24 Aug 1789)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Patrick Henry (14 Sept 1789)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)

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Unlock the Pursuit of Happiness: The Founders’ Ignored Message

Michael Boldin — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 18:58:03 +0000

Forget everything the government-run schools taught you about the “pursuit of happiness.” The Founders had a far more radical understanding – something most history lessons miss or completely ignore. In this episode, we’ll unlock this message in the Declaration of Independence, the way the founders intended.

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Maharrey – Pursuit of Happiness: “We Cannot be Happy without Being Free”

John Locke – An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (1690)

Burlamaqui – The Principles of Natural and Politic Law (1751)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania XII (1767)

John Dickinson – A North American – Address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados (1766)

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

Arthur Lee – An appeal to the justice and interests of the people of Great Britain, in the present dispute with America (1775)

John Adams – Discourses on Davila (1790)

James Madison – Property (1792)

John Jay – Address to the People of Great Britain (21 Oct 1774)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

James Otis, Jr. – The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1763)

Episode – Locke vs Spooner on Consent of the Governed

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The Founders on Power: 8 Essential Principles for a FREE Society

Michael Boldin — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 18:03:20 +0000

The Founders knew that freedom can ONLY exist when power is kept under strict limits. Anything else is arbitrary power – how they defined tyranny.

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George Mason – Virginia Declaration of Rights (12 June 1776)

1. POWER FLOWS FROM THE PEOPLE

Robert Livingston – New York Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788)

2. POWER MUST HAVE DEFINED LIMITS

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Patrick Henry (28 May 1789)

Maryland Farmer No. 3. Part 1 (7 Mar 1788)

Brutus IV (29 Nov 1787)

3. POWER NOT GIVEN IS RETAINED

George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (21 June 1788)

4. POWER ALWAYS SEEKS TO GROW

Federal Farmer No. IV (12 Oct 1787)

Samuel Adams – Letter to James Warren (24 Oct 1780)

5. ARBITRARY POWER IS TYRANNY

John Locke – Chapter 18 – Tyranny

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

6. POWER TO DO GOOD IS THE POWER TO DO EVIL

John Jay – A Citizen of New York (15 Apr 1788)

Oliver Ellsworth – A Landholder III (19 Nov 1787)

7. CONSOLIDATION IS TYRANNY

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Joseph C. Cabell (2 Feb 1816)

8. POWER DOESN’T LIMIT ITSELF

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2nd Amendment: 8 Key Principles From the Founders Ignored Today

Michael Boldin — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 23:12:41 +0000

They don’t teach this in government-run schools. In this episode, we explore 8 foundational principles from the founders about the right to keep and bear arms that are almost totally ignored today.

Path to Liberty: June 12, 2024

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St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (5 Feb 1788)

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

James Wilson – Lectures on Law

Episode – 4 Main Reasons for the 2nd Amendment

Tench Coxe – A Pennsylvanian, To The People of the United States, Philadelphia Gazette (20 Feb 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

Noah Webster – An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (17 Oct 1787)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Roger Sherman – Debate in the House of Representatives (1790)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Peter Carr (19 Aug 1785)

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Pro Liberty, Anti-Empire: The Forgotten Founder Who Lived the Revolution

Michael Boldin — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:11:25 +0000

Have you ever heard of Dr. Joseph Warren? He was a key figure in the American Revolution, a fiery orator who defied British tyranny, and the man who sent Paul Revere out on his famous Midnight Ride. This video dives into the incredible story of Joseph Warren, the “Pro Liberty, Anti-Empire” Founding “Grandfather” that history almost totally ignores.

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Maharrey – Remembering Patriot and Revolutionary War Hero Joseph Warren

Book – Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty

Tom Malone – Dr. Joseph Warren: Architect of the Revolution

A True Patriot (29 Feb 1768)

A True Patriot (14 Mar 1768)

Harvard – Recalling Joseph Warren–physician, revolutionary, leader

Episode – Remembering Boston Massacre Day: Joseph Warren Edition

Massacre Day Oration (5 Mar 1772)

Joseph Warren – Letter to Samuel Adams (15 June 1774)

Maharrey – Suffolk Resolves Calling for Non-Compliance and Resistance to British Acts

Suffolk Resolves (17 Sept 1774)

Episode – Blueprint for Liberty: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774

Episode – “Freedom is the Prize” – Joseph Warren’s Boston Massacre Day Oration v2

Massacre Day Oration (6 Mar 1775)

George Wildrick – Dr. Joseph Warren: leader in medicine, politics, and revolution

Letter to Benjamin Franklin (26 Apr 1775)

Lawrence Reed – The Founding Father Who Fought for Liberty at Bunker Hill, and Paid With His Life

Wiki: Battle and Death

The Death of General Warren

New England Historical Society

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End the Fed from the Bottom Up: The Founders’ Plan You can Use Now

Michael Boldin — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:03:15 +0000

The federal reserve is never going to end itself. And congress is not going to shut off its own private money printer. So it’s up to the people and the states – as the founders advised – to get the job done in support of the Constitution and liberty.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: June 7, 2024

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Maharrey – Nullify the Fed from the Bottom Up: A Step by Step Approach

Goldback

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Constitution Myth Busted: Usurpations are Void

Michael Boldin — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:17:50 +0000

Think all federal laws are supreme? Think again! In this episode, we’ll explore how the Founders told us the Constitution is what’s supreme – and everything else is a usurpation that’s NULL AND VOID.

Path to Liberty: June 5, 2024

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James Otis Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

Boston Town Meeting, Memorial to the House of Representatives (May 1764)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves Against the Stamp Act (29 May 1765)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (27 Jan 1772)

Alexander Hamilton – The Farmer Refuted (23 Feb 1775)

Supremacy Clause

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Gov. Samuel Johnston – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Episode – Constitution 101: Supremacy Clause

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 78 (14 June 1788)

George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

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Chasing Votes vs Building Freedom: The Founders’ Radical Plan for Liberty

Michael Boldin — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 20:19:43 +0000

A lot of people in today’s liberty movement are totally wasting their time. They’re like a hamster on a wheel: running in place, getting nowhere. The problem is – they focus too much time, money and energy on elections as their primary – or only strategy for liberty. The Founders wouldn’t recognize this while living under the largest government in history.

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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VII (1767)

1 – HOW DO WE DEFINE A FREE PEOPLE?

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

Episode – Who are a Free People?

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part 2 (1792)

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America

2 – HOW TO RESPOND?

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

3 – MISSING INGREDIENTS

John Dickinson – A North American – Address to the Committee of Correspondence in Barbados (1766)

Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson – Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 July 1775)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Charles Yancey (6 Jan 1816)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Thomas Paine – American Crisis IV (13 Sept 1777)

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From Banks to Big Brother: The Rise of Financial Surveillance

Michael Boldin — Fri, 31 May 2024 23:49:27 +0000

Think you have financial privacy? Think again. Since Nixon, the US has increasingly turned banks and the entire financial industry into a massive surveillance network. This video dives deep into 5 of the major acts they’ve passed since 1970.

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Maharrey – From Nixon to Biden: How the US Turned Banks into Spy Networks

Bank Secrecy Act (1970)

Video: The TRUTH about Bank Privacy

Money Laundering Control Act of 1986

Annunzio-Wylie Anti-Money Laundering Act

USA P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act

American Rescue Plan Act of 2021

IRS – Delayed Implementation of $600 Rule

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10th Amendment OG: Patrick Henry’s Top Views (on his birthday)

Michael Boldin — Wed, 29 May 2024 19:42:04 +0000

Turns out the guy who said ‘Give me Liberty or give me death!’ wasn’t a big fan of a giant, centralized government. Today, on Patrick Henry’s birthday, let’s see why he’s one of the real OGs of the 10th Amendment.

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Dave Benner – Voice of the Revolution: Patrick Henry Born Today in History

Joe Wolverton – Patrick Henry: “If This Be Treason!”

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Wirt

Patrick Henry’s Virginia Resolves: Bedrock Principles of American Liberty

M. Andrew Holowchak – Did Jefferson Really “Hate” Patrick Henry?

Maharrey – Patrick Henry Argues Parson’s Cause Court Case

Episode – Forgotten Foundation: Patrick Henry and the Parson’s Cause

George Mason – Letter to Martin Cockburn (26 May 1774)

St. John’s Church – 2nd Virginia Convention

Dave Benner – Patrick Henry’s Give Me Liberty Speech

Wiki: Give me Liberty!

Speech at the Virginia Ratification Convention (7 June 1788)

Episode – Tax Battle! Henry vs Hamilton on the Requisition System

Episode – Patrick Henry: Top Anti-Federalist Warnings

Patrick Henry – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (28 Aug 1789)

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10th Amendment: Why the Supremacy Clause Doesn’t Apply When States Opt Out

Michael Boldin — Mon, 27 May 2024 21:49:10 +0000

Despite what supporters of the monster state want you to believe, there are times when states push back against federal power and the supremacy clause doesn’t even apply. Learn about this powerful 10th Amendment tool called anti-commandeering.

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Episode – Tax Battle! Henry vs Hamilton on the Requisition System

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

Anti-Commandeering: An overview of five major Supreme Court cases

Constitution 101: Supremacy Clause

Murphy v NCAA (2018)

National Governors Association (30 Sept 2013)

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Nullification in Action: The Shocking True Story of Fugitive Slave Anthony Burns

Michael Boldin — Fri, 24 May 2024 21:39:14 +0000

This is an absolutely incredible story of resistance to federal power. Anthony Burns – born into slavery, escaped, captured – and the center of a massive standoff between people in Boston and the federal government.

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Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union (20 Dec 1860)

Episode – Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: One of the Worst Ever

Fight for Freedom: The Anthony Burns Affair

Flight from slavery and capture

Riot at the Courthouse

Pres. Franklin Pierce’s Orders (27-31 May 1854)

Arguments in the Anthony Burns Trial

Decision of Commissioner Loring in the Anthony Burns Case (2 June 1854)

Aftermath

Henry David Thoreau – Slavery in Massachusetts (4 July 1854)

Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855)

Encyclopedia Virginia – The Anthony Burns Trial

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Caught in the Crosshairs? How Geofence Warrants Turn Innocent People into Suspects

Michael Boldin — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:02:33 +0000

Imagine being a suspect for simply walking near a crime scene. That’s the reality of a mass, warrantless surveillance tool called a geofence warrant

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Maharrey – The Dragnet State

Jonathan Hofer – Independent Institute

Meg O’Connor – Phoenix New Times

NBC – Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect

EFF – Geofence Warrants and Reverse Keyword Warrants are So Invasive, Even Big Tech Wants to Ban Them

Jake Snow – Cops Blanketed San Francisco In Geofence Warrants

James Otis – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

Episode – The Real Revolution James Otis vs the Writs of Assistance

Google – Supplemental Information on Geofence Warrants in the United States

EFF – Google’s Sensorvault Can Tell Police Where You’ve Been

Chad Marlow, Jennifer Granick – ACLU

Warrant Builder

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo back New York ban on controversial search warrants

EFF – Is This the End of Geofence Warrants?

AT&T And T-Mobile Are Giving Cops Geofenced Location Data, Even Though It’s Inaccurate

Leila Barghouty – What are Geofence Warrants?

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4 Biggest Threats to Liberty: Founding Fathers Warned Us

Michael Boldin — Mon, 20 May 2024 19:55:10 +0000

Explore the 4 biggest threats to liberty as identified by the Founding Fathers, with quotes & analysis included. Learn how history can guide us in protecting our freedoms today.

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Charles Yancey (6 Jan 1816)

4. IGNORANCE

George Washington, Letter to John Jay (18 May 1786)

Benjamin Rush – Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government (1786)

Samuel Adams – Valerius Poplicola, Boston Gazette (5 Oct 1772)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)

3. ARBITRARY POWER

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part I (1791)

Samuel Adams – An address to the constituents of Massachusetts Bay Colony detailing the newly completed Massachusetts constitution (1780)

2. CONSOLIDATION

John Tyler, Sr – Virginia Ratifying Convention (25 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell (2 Feb 1816)

William Grayson – Virginia Ratifying Convention (11 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

Episode – The Dangers of Consolidation: Antifederalist Brutus No. 1

1. COMPLIANCE

James Otis, Jr (11 Jan 1762)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Master the Constitution: DIY Guide to Original Meaning

2 ESSENTIAL EPISODES

Constitution 101: Enforcement Mechanism

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FDR’s Gold Grab: The Confiscation Most Americans Ignored

Michael Boldin — Sat, 18 May 2024 01:44:19 +0000

Executive Order 6102 – learn the truth behind the gold confiscation order, and the fact that most Americans defied it.

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Maharrey – Executive Order 6102: A Deep Dive into FDR’s Gold Confiscation Program

Emergency Banking Act (1933)

FDR: Fireside Chat on Banking (12 Mar 1933)

Executive Order 6102 – Forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion and Gold Certificates

Executive Order 6073 – Reopening Banks

Gold Reserve Act of 1934 (30 Jan 1934)

White House Statement on Proclamation 2072 (31 Jan 1934)

David Henderson – Friedman and Schwartz Speak Truth about Power

SD Bullion – How much Gold was Confiscated in 1933?

Wiki: Executive Order 6102

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What is Liberty? 3 Views From Divine Right to Individual Rights

Michael Boldin — Wed, 15 May 2024 20:20:17 +0000

What does “liberty” truly mean? We explore 3 schools of thought, from Filmer’s “divine right” to Locke & the Founding Fathers’ individual rights. Plus, modern thinkers like Rothbard and more! Discover the historical roots of your freedom.

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Benjamin Franklin – Letter to David Hartley (4 Dec 1789)

Robert Filmer – Patriarcha: The Natural Power of Kings

Thomas Paine – The American Crisis (23 Dec 1776)

John Locke: Two Treatises Chap IV, Of Slavery

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No VII (1767)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

James Madison – Property (27 Mar 1792)

Episode – Property Rights are the Foundation of all the Rest

Murray Rothbard – The Ethics of Liberty (pdf)

Cato’s Letters, No. 62 – Thomas Gordon (20 Jan 1722)

Josiah Warren – Equitable Commerce (1852)

Wiki: For a New Liberty

Ron Paul – Liberty Defined

Frederic Bastiat – The Law

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 Apr 1819)

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Master the Constitution: DIY Guide to Original Meaning

Michael Boldin — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:12:12 +0000

Do you ever wonder what the Constitution really means? This video will show you how to learn the Constitution the way the Founding Fathers told us to. We’ll explore a process called “originalism” to determine the original meaning of the Constitution’s clauses and phrases.

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Maharrey – Beyond the Text: Understanding the Constitution’s Original Meaning

The Constitution for the United States: A Transcription

Natelson – The ideas that formed the Constitution: Vattel and the Law of Nations

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Johnson (12 June 1823)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Ritchie (15 Sept 1821)

Samuel Johnson – Dictionary of the English Language

Thomas Sheridan – A Complete Dictionary of the English Language

Nathan Bailey – An Universal Etymological English Dictionary

Elliot’s Debates

Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution

The Federalist

James Wilson – State House Yard Speech

John Dickinson – Fabius Letters

Episode – War and Foreign Policy: Top-5 Influences on the Founders

Episode – Jefferson’s Favorite Book on Government?

Abigail Adams – Letter to John Quincy Adams (20 Mar 1780)

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Nullification News: Key Wins on Sound Money, Firearms and Privacy

Michael Boldin — Fri, 10 May 2024 21:44:50 +0000

Gold and Silver, CBDC, Biometric Surveillance and 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy. We break down the bills and new laws & what they mean for YOU.

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Episode – Firearm Financial Privacy: Nullification Status Report

CBDC

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

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War and Foreign Policy: Top-5 Influences on the Founders

Michael Boldin — Wed, 08 May 2024 19:58:52 +0000

They’re mostly ignored or forgotten today. But, to the founders, these five formed an international law and foreign policy pantheon.

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Natelson – The ideas that formed the Constitution: Vattel and the Law of Nations

Abigail Adams – Letter to John Quincy Adams (20 Mar 1780)

Report on Books for Congress (23 Jan 1783)

Hugo Grotius

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (11 Dec 1787)

Grotius – The Rights of War and Peace

John Jay – Charge to Grandy Jury, Richmond Virginia

Wiki: Samuel von Pufendorf – The Law of Nature and Nations

Joe Wolverton – Samuel von Pufendorf: A Lasting, Though Forgotten, Influence on Our Founding Fathers

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Pufendorf – The Law of Nature and Nations – full text

Natelson – Define and Punish Clause

Joe Wolverton – Forgotten Influences of the Founders

Burlamaqui – The Principles of Natural and Politic Law

Thomas Paine – The American Crisis (23 Dec 1776)

Christian Wolff – The Law of Nations Treated According to the Scientific Method

Wiki – Emer de Vattel

Vattel – Life and Works

Emer de Vattel – The Law of Nations

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

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No Deal for Gun Control: North Carolina Rejects British Offer from General Clinton

Michael Boldin — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:15:49 +0000

No deal. That’s pretty much how North Carolina patriots responded to British Major General Henry Clinton’s proclamation condemning what he called their “wicked rebellion” along with his offer of amnesty for everyone, but two, in exchange for giving up their arms, and more.

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Proclamation by Henry Clinton concerning loyalty to Great Britain (5 May 1776)

SW O’Connell on X

TJ Martinell – No Deal: When the British Offered Amnesty in Exchange for Gun Control

Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress (15 Dec 1774)

Maharrey – Fairfax Resolves Condemning British Constitutional Violations Adopted

Dave Kopel – The American Revolution against British Gun Control

Rev. William Tennent – Letter to the Editor (23 Aug 1774)

TJ Martinell – How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution

Dave Kopel – British Gun Control

Order of the King (19 Oct 1774)

Episode – It Was Gun Control: What Started the War for Independence

Letters concerning news of the Battle of Lexington in Massachusetts (20 Apr-09 May 1775)

Travis Copeland – North Carolina’s Response to Lexington and Concord

Stephen Halbrook – The Right To Bear Arms In The First State Bills Of Rights: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Vermont, And Massachusetts

Gov. Josiah Martin – Letter to Earl of Dartmouth (18 May 1775)

Maharrey – The Wicked Rebellion: General Clinton’s Amnesty Offer and North Carolina’s Rejection

Circular letter from William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and Richard Caswell to the inhabitants of North Carolina (19 June 1775)

Josiah Martin – “Fiery Proclamation”

Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge

Episode – First for Independence: The Halifax Resolves of 1776

Proclamation by Henry Clinton concerning loyalty to Great Britain (5 May 1776)

Episode – No Deal for Gun Control

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The Constitution vs the National Bank: Edmund Randolph’s Analysis

Michael Boldin — Fri, 03 May 2024 22:16:05 +0000

George Washington asked his attorney general to give his opinion on whether he felt Alexander Hamilton’s Bank Bill was constitutional. The answer was a resounding no.

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Edmund Randolph – Letter to George Washington (12 Feb 1791)

Edmund Randolph – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank (12 Feb 1791)

Episode – Constitution 101: Necessary and Proper Clause

Episode: Thomas Jefferson – The Constitution vs the National Bank

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John Locke vs Lysander Spooner: Consent of the Governed

Michael Boldin — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:47:00 +0000

Tracing its roots back to John Locke, the Mayflower Compact – and even earlier – the “consent of the governed” was one of the most important principles in the Declaration of Independence, and was the foundation for the formation of the Constitution as well. But, as Lysander Spooner argued – the notion that “all the people” consent exists only in theory.

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Wiki: Divine Right of Kings

Thomas Paine – Common Sense (1776)

Wiki: Duns Scotus

Declaration of Arbroath (1320)

Stewart McLaurin – The Scottish Declaration of Arbroath and the American Declaration of Independence

Maharrey: Sovereignty and Agency

Vindiciae contra tyrannos (1579)

John Milton – The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1650)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

John Locke – Two Treatises, Chap IV §. 22

Natelson: The Mayflower Compact and “consent of the governed” are now 400 years old

Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)

Tony Williams – Constituting America

Robert Higgs – Consent of the Governed?

Lysander Spooner – The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1860)

Lysander Spooner – Forced Consent (1873)

Lysander Spooner – No Treason No. VI (1870)

Lysander Spooner – A Letter to Grover Cleveland (1886)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

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Sovereignty and the Constitution: Government as Agent of the People of the States

Michael Boldin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:05:07 +0000

In the American system, the people of the several states are sovereign, meaning they hold final or ultimate authority. Power flows from them to the federal government, which merely serves as their agent.

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Episode – The Law: An Intro from the Founders to Frederic Bastiat

Maharrey: Sovereignty and Agency

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (24 Jul 1788)

Ratification of the Constitution by Virginia (26 June 1788)

Legal Information Institute – Agency Law

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

John Jay: An Address to the People of the State of New York (15 Apr 1788)

John Locke – Two Treatises §. 141

James Wilson – State House Yard Speech (6 Oct 1787)

James Madison – Federalist 39

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

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The Law: An Intro from the Founders to Frederic Bastiat

Michael Boldin — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 21:39:31 +0000

In his 1850 essay The Law, Bastiat railed against socialism, and argued that legitimate law isn’t just the will of politicians, but instead is based on protecting the natural rights of individuals. You can see inspiration in these views from Locke, Jefferson, Paine and more.

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Thomas Paine – Common Sense (10 Jan 1776)

Constitution Full Text

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 83

John Jay – Address to the People of New York (1788)

James Madison – Letter to Henry Lee (1 Jan 1792)

Maryland Farmer No. 3, Part 1 (7 Mar 1788)

Samuel Adams – An address to the constituents of Massachusetts Bay Colony detailing the newly completed Massachusetts constitution (1780)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 Apr 1819)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

John Locke – Two Treatises §. 141

John Locke – Two Treatises §. 201

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1698)

John Locke – Two Treatises §. 202

Paul Meany – An Introduction to Bastiat’s The Law

Bastiat – The Law

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Conventiuon (2 June 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Gideon Granger (13 Aug 1800)

James Madison – Speech in the House of Representatives (10 Jan 1794)

Thomas Paine – Common Sense (1776)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Francis W. Gilmer (7 June 1816)

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No Permanent Alliances: Foreign Policy of Washington and Jefferson

Michael Boldin — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:31:40 +0000

George Washington: “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” Thomas Jefferson: “Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”

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George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

George Washington – Letter to Alexander Hamilton (8 May 1796)

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Yusuf Qaramanli, Pasha and Bey of Tripoli (21 May 1801)

Episode – The Big Lie: Jefferson and War with the Barbary States

Episode – War Powers and George Washington

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (8 Feb 1825)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Gideon Granger (13 Aug 1800)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Thomas Lomax (12 Mar 1799)

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The Failed Strategy of “Vote the Bums Out” is Making Things Even Worse

Michael Boldin — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 18:30:21 +0000

From Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson to Lysander Spooner – the notion that the people should submit until they can replace enough politicians to stop the government from doing what the government was never authorized to do in the first place – is only a guarantee that they’ll never stop, and it’ll keep getting worse.

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Elizabeth Goitein – Brennan Center – on X

The Redheaded Libertarian on X

Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

“Vote them out” Posts on X
Bridget Phetasy
Gerald Celente
Edward Snowden
Amy Peikoff

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (9 Dec 1771)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 28

Thomas Jefferson’s Draft (Before 4 Oct 1798)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Lysander Spooner – No Treason VI (1870)

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Thomas Jefferson’s Prediction of Economic Meltdown and its Relevance Today

Michael Boldin — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:38:13 +0000

Jefferson’s chilling warnings about unchecked fiat, paper money printing proved prophetic as the U.S. plunged into its first boom-bust economic crisis in the early 19th century.

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Maharrey: Thomas Jefferson’s Warnings and Predictions about the Dangers of Money-Printing

A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States (1916)

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Cooper (16 Jan 1814)

Murray Rothbard – The Panic of 1819

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to John Adams (21 Mar 1819)

John Adams – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 Feb 1819)

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Benjamin Franklin’s Rules for Bringing Down Empires

Michael Boldin — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 20:28:39 +0000

With some of his best satire and sharpest wit, Franklin told the British the top-20 ways their policies would bring their empire over the American colonies to an end. Much of it sounds pretty familiar to what we face today.

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Benjamin Franklin – Letter to the Marquis De Lafayette (14 May 1781)

Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One (11 Sept 1773)

America in Class: How Did We Get Here?

Proposal for the Great Seal of the United States (before 14 Aug 1776)

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Tax Resistance and the Birth of American Independence

Michael Boldin — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:23:34 +0000

86 years and a day before the “shot heard ’round the world” – the people of Boston and surrounding towns rose up and overthrew the royal governor in a dispute that started over tax resistance to arbitrary power.

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Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Historic Ipswich: The “Birthplace of American Independence”

Wiki: Edmund Andros

John G. Palfrey: The New-England Revolution of the 17th Century (May 1864)

Complaints of great wrongs done under the ill government of Sir Edmund Androsse governor in New-England, in the year 1687

Wiki: Revolt of 1689

The declaration of the gentlemen, merchants, and inhabitants of Boston, and the countrey adjacent (18 Apr 1689)

Response from William III

Lysander Spooner – No Treason No. VI (1870)

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First for Independence: The Halifax Resolves of 1776

Michael Boldin — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 18:50:38 +0000

April 12, 1776 – the first official action by one of the colonies in full support of declaring independence. The Halifax Resolves were also the first example of a colony-wide assembly admitting that reconciliation with the British was no longer an option.

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North Carolina Provincial Congress

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Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge

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Halifax and the Revolution

The journal of the proceedings of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, held at Halifax on the fourth day of April 1776

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Adam Zielinski – American Battlefield Trust

American Battlefield Trust – Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

The Constitutional Authority of the 2nd Continental Congress

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Sound Money Success: The Utah Case Study

Michael Boldin — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 19:24:08 +0000

Since 2011 – a combination of state laws and human action has built what is likely the most robust foundation for the advancement of gold and silver as money in the United Sates.

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Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Dumas (18 May 1779)

George Washington – Letter to Jabez Bowen (9 Jan 1787)

Episode: Tyranny 101: How the Federal Reserve Powers the Monster State

Maharrey – Utah’s Step-By-Step Strategy in Support of Sound Money

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Rev. Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)

2011 – Utah Legal Tender Act

2012 – Specie Legal Tender Act

Utah Expands Legal Tender in the State

United Precious Metals Association

Alpine Gold Exchange

Welcoming the Utah Goldback

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2022 – Utah Law Exempts the Sale of “Goldbacks” from State Sales Tax

2024 – Utah Authorizes State Gold and Silver Reserves

2024 – Utah Excludes CBDC from State Definition of Legal Tender

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

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A Fatal Error: A Single Step is a Step Too Far

Michael Boldin — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 18:27:09 +0000

Supporting one version of an unconstitutional government program over another – because it seems to be the “least offensive” option – is not only what leading founders called a “fatal error,” but it also sets a precedent for more of the same, and worse.

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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. IX (1767)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Raul Lopez – Knox News

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Albert Gallatin (6 June 1817)

James Madison – Letter to James Robertson, Jr. (20 Apr 1831)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VII (1767)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

James Madison – Speech in the House of Representatives (10 Jan 1794)

James Madison – Santo Domingan Refugees (10 Jan 1794)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. X (1767)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (9 Dec 1771)

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Firearm Financial Privacy: Nullification Status Report

Michael Boldin — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:57:50 +0000

Originally implemented by the IRS – gun-control advocates want to use “Merchant Category Codes” to track purchases of firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition. But the state-level 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act has shut those plans downs – at least for now.

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IRS – Revenue Bulletin 2004-31

CNBC Report

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Free Range American

NPR Report on Firearms MCC

NRA-ILA – MCC Update

State of the Nullification Movement Report (2023)

Reuters – Amex, Mastercard, Visa pause work on new firearms merchant code

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Case Study: Utah vs the Surveillance State

Michael Boldin — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:40:08 +0000

For more than a decade, starting in 2013, the Utah legislature has incrementally built some of the most robust privacy protections in the country with a step-by-step approach. Over that time, Utah chipped away at the surveillance state, passing at least eight separate laws limiting surveillance.

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Maharrey – Utah’s Step-By-Step Strategy Against the Surveillance State

Episode – 3 Key Elements from the American Revolution for Successful Nullification Today

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Rev. Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)

Episode – There is no Silver Bullet

2013 – Automatic License Plate Reader System Act

2014 – Banning warrantless data, Utah Governor signs privacy bill into law

2014 – Utah Governor Signs Bill to Restrict Drone Use

2019 – Utah Law Bans Warrantless Access to Information in the Cloud

2021 – Utah Law Further Limits Warrantless Collection of Electronic Data

2022 – Utah Law Expands Limits on Drone Surveillance

2023 – Utah Law Restricts Geofence Location Tracking

2024 – Utah Puts Limits on Warrantless Biometric Surveillance

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

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3 Key Elements from the American Revolution for Successful Nullification Today

Michael Boldin — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 21:41:13 +0000

Responding to the Coercive Acts of 1774 – the “Intolerable Acts” – the old revolutionaries were organized, coordinated – and very strategic in their approach. We’d do well to learn what they considered essential elements for success.

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Mount Vernon: The Coercive Acts of 1774

Paul Revere’s Other Rides

Episode – Blueprint for Liberty: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774

Declaration And Resolves Of The First Continental Congress (14 OCT 1774)

Episode – An Early Bill of Rights: Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress

The Association Enacted by the First Continental Congress

Episode – First of the Founding Four: Continental Association

Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress (15 Dec 1774)

Thomas Paine – American Crisis I (23 Dec 1776)

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Did the Founders Ignore their own Warnings on Consolidation?

Michael Boldin — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 18:44:01 +0000

Consolidation – we were warned – would guarantee a destruction of liberty. But many founders seemed to believe they could pull off a “proper” or “partial” consolidation and not get a system of “unremitted despotism.”

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Episode – The Revolution vs Unlimited, Centralized Power

Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell (2 Feb 1816)

William Grayson – Virginia Ratifying Convention (11 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Episode – The Dangers of Consolidation: Antifederalist Brutus No. 1

Samuel Adams to Elbridge Gerry (22 Aug 1789)

John Lansing – New York Ratifying Convention (20 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

William Davie – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (25 July 1788)

Fisher Ames – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (19 Jan 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Nov 1787)

James Madison – Letter to George Washington (16 Apr 1787)

Madison and Hamilton – Federalist 19 (8 Dec 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 32 (2 Jan 1788)

Brutus No. I (18 Oct 1787)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Patrick Henry (14 Sept 1789)

Federal Farmer III (10 Oct 1787)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (6 June 1788)

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Bully Government Bullies Apple

Michael Boldin — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:49:31 +0000

In yet another example of the government rejecting founding principles by working to bring businesses under federal control, the DOJ and 16 state attorneys general accused Apple of violating Section 2 of the Sherman Act, a “law” allowing the government to intervene against companies said to be acting “in restraint of trade or commerce.”

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John Jay to Florida Blanca (25 Apr 1780)

Peletiah Webster – An Essay on Free Trade and Finance (Jul 1779)

Thomas Jefferson – First Inaugural Address (4 March 1801)

Elizabeth Nolan Brown – The Absurd Apple Antitrust Lawsuit

DOJ Civil Complaint (21 Mar 2024)

Ed Hardy – Cult of Mac

Wiki – Super-App

Apple to put USB-C connectors in iPhones to comply with EU rules

Front Page Tech: Apple vs America

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. IX (1767)

John Jay – A Citizen of New York (1788)

Oliver Ellsworth – A Landholder III (19 Nov 1787)

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Force vs Freedom: Anti-Federalist Federal Farmer No. 6-7

Michael Boldin — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 18:42:03 +0000

Warning that some federalists were fakes who really wanted a totally consolidated system, Federal Farmer makes the case that too few representatives, coupled with a lack of clarity over the bounds of power, would lead to a system based on force rather than consent

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Federal Farmer Letters to the Republican VI (25 Dec 1787)

Federal Farmer Letters to the Republican VII (31 Dec 1787)

Founder of the Day – Federal Farmer Summary

TJ Martinell – Federal Farmer: Amendments are Essential and Necessary

Episode – No Representation: Antifederalist Brutus No. 4

Episode – Consolidation Leads to Force: Antifederalist Cato No. 3

TJ Martinell – Federal Farmer: Representation Isn’t Sufficient

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The Gun Grabber Argument Against Defend the Guard

Michael Boldin — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:29:41 +0000

It’s a trap! – tacitly accepting a collectivist gun grabber view of the 2nd Amendment to oppose the Defend the Guard Act.

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Defend the Guard: A Powerful Check on Unconstitutional War Powers

Article I, Section 8, Clause 15

Article I, Section 8, Clause 16

Natelson – The General Welfare Clause and the Public Trust

War Powers: The True History of George Washington and the Indian Tribes

Militia Acts of 1792 (2 May 1792 and 8 May 1792)

Militia Act of 1795

Henry Knox – Plan for the Militia – Letter to George Washington (18 Jan 1790)

Title 32 U.S.C. Chapter 1, Section 101 – Definitions

US Army Center of Military History

Constitutional Charter of the Guard

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

Second Amendment Text

Luther Martin – Genuine Information VII (18 Jan 1788)

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Constitution 101: Necessary and Proper Clause

Michael Boldin — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:41:48 +0000

One of the most abused and misused clauses of the Constitution – and also one of the most ambiguous, even at the time of the founding – the so-called “sweeping clause.”

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Necessary and Proper Overview

Text of the Clause

Rob Natelson – The Agency Law Origins of the Necessary and Proper Clause (2004)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (1 Dec 1787)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (4 Dec 1787)

Oliver Ellsworth – A Landholder V (3 Dec 1787)

James Madison – Federalist 44 (25 Jan 1788)

George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

Archibald Maclaine – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 June 1788)

John Williams – New York Ratifying Convention (26 June 1788)

John Williams – New York Ratifying Convention (27 June 1788)

3 views of Necessary and Proper

1. Necessary means indispensable
James Madison – Speech on the Bank Bill (2 Feb 1791)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

2. Necessary means convenient
Episode – Necessary is Supposed to Mean Necessary

3. Somewhere in the middle
Edmund Randolph – Opinion on the Bank Bill (12 Feb 1791)

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (17 June 1788)

Randy Barnett – The Original Meaning of the Necessary and Proper Clause

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Episode – Undefined Power: Antifederalist Federal Farmer No. 4-5

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

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Hidden Gems: James Madison’s Top-12 Quotes on the Constitution

Michael Boldin — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 18:18:20 +0000

Born March 16, 1751 – the “father of the Constitution” had plenty to say about the system he was so influential in creating – and how to enforce it when the government gets out of line.

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Federalist 45 (26 Jan 1788)

Bounty Payments for Cod Fisheries (6 Feb 1792)

Letter to Joseph C. Cabell (13 Feb 1829)

Speech on the Bank Bill (2 Feb 1791)

Letter to Henry Lee (25 June 1824)

Helvidius IV (14 Sept 1793)

Federalist 48 (1 Feb 1788)

Report of 1800 (7 Jan 1800)

Virginia Resolutions (21 Dec 1798)

Federalist 46 (29 Jan 1788)

Notes on Nullification (Dec. 1834)

More Episodes on James Madison

Was James Madison Really the Father of the Constitution?

Property Rights are the Foundation of all the Rest

Who decides? Madison on Interpreting the Constitution

Stop the Feds: James Madison-Style

Madison and Hamilton: A Tale of Two Flip Flops

Did James Madison Reject Nullification?

James Madison on the Necessary and Proper Clause

James Madison: The Constitution vs the National Bank

Madison and Jefferson on Infrastructure and Debt

James Madison: Universal Peace

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Gold, Guns, CBDC and Prohibition: Nullification Movement News

Michael Boldin — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 19:04:53 +0000

Racking up more wins for the constitution and liberty – the latest news from the 10th Amendment and nullification movement in the states.

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James Otis Jr (11 Jan 1762)

Indiana Financial Privacy

2ND AMENDMENT

Kansas SAPA Hearing

Wyoming Red Flag

The Second Amendment Financial Privacy Act is Another Win for the Nullification Movement

SOUND MONEY

Idaho Gold Reserves

Utah Gold Reserves

Missouri Constitutional Money Act SB735

Louisiana Legal Tender

Goldback

Wisconsin Gold Taxes

PROHIBITION

West Virginia Raw Milk

Hawaii Marijuana Legalization

CBDC

Indiana CBDC

To the Governor: Utah Bill to Exclude CBDC from State Definition of Money

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Undefined Power: Anti-Federalist Federal Farmer No. 4-5

Michael Boldin — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 18:52:11 +0000

Federal Farmer warned that liberty under the constitution would depend primarily on the worst of all possible checks, “the prudence, wisdom and moderation of those who manage the affairs of government.”

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Federal Farmer Letters to the Republican V (13 Oct 1787)

Episode – Beware of Tyrants: Anti-Federalist Federal Farmer No. 1

Episode – The Perils of Centralization: Anti-Federalist Federal Farmer No. 2-3

Jason Mandresh – Founder of the Day, Not-So-Clearly Defined Powers

Federal Farmer Letters to the Republican IV (12 Oct 1787)

Episode – James Wilson’s Speech on the Constitution

Gordon Lloyd – Teaching American History

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania XI (1767)

Tara Ross – Federal Farmer V

Jason Mandresh – Founder of the Day – Necessary Amendments

Federal Farmer Letters to the Republican 1 (8 Oct 1787)

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A Real State of the Union: George Washington’s First Annual Address

Michael Boldin — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 23:16:47 +0000

January 8, 1790: George Washington delivered the first message to Congress on the state of the Union. No pomp, no long partisan clapping. and the shortest ever recited by a president. The speech – especially in comparison to what we get today – shows just how far modern presidents have strayed from the Constitution.

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Smithsonian – The First State of the Union Address

George Washington – First Annual Address to Congress (8 Jan 1790)

Dave Benner: North Carolina Chooses Independence

Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington, Plan for the Arrangement of the Militia (18 Jan 1790)

Episode – War Powers and George Washington

House of Representatives, Reply to Pres. Washington (14 Jan 1790)

Senate, Reply to Pres. Washington (14 Jan 1790)

An Act for regulating the Military Establishment of the United States (30 Apr 1790)

Mount Vernon – Overview of First Annual Address to Congress

Plan for Establishing Uniformity in the Coinage, Weights, and Measures of the United States

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Top-5 Reasons for the Monster State

Michael Boldin — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 21:04:06 +0000

Understanding how things got so bad is the first step on the road to recovery, the path to liberty.

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5. NECESSARY

James Madison on the Bank Bill (2 Feb 1791)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bill for Establishing a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

Alexander Hamilton – Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States (1791)

Chief Justice John Marshall – McCulloch v Maryland (1819)

Episode – Necessary is Supposed to Mean Necessary

4. WAR POWERS

James Madison – Helvidius No. 4 (14 Sept 1793)

Thomas Jefferson – Message to United States Congress (6 Dec 1805)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Episode – The Big Lie: Jefferson and War with the Barbary States

Episode – War Powers and George Washington

3. FIAT MONEY

Episode – Tyranny 101: How the Federal Reserve Powers the Monster State

George Washington – Letter to Jabez Bowen (9 Jan 1787)

William Grayson – Letter to James MAdison (22 March 1786)

Thomas Paine – Dissertations on Government, The Affairs of the Bank, and Paper Money (18 Feb 1786)

2. ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

1. THE PEOPLE

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (17 Sept 1787)

Lysander Spooner – No Treason VI

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“Freedom is the Prize” – Joseph Warren’s Boston Massacre Day Oration v2

Michael Boldin — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:17:07 +0000

“Act worthy of yourselves.” In the face of a standing army occupier – and direct threats to his own life, the great Revolutionary war hero Dr. Joseph Warren urged the people to stand firm for liberty in the face of the mighty British Empire, “until tyranny is trodden under foot.”

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Eran Shalev – Dr. Warren’s Ciceronian Toga

Previous Massacre Day Episodes
John Hancock (1774)
Joseph Warren (1772)
Benjamin Church (1773)

Salina B. Baker – Dr. Joseph Warren’s 1775 Boston Massacre Oration

Samuel Adams – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (21 March 1775)

Tom Malone – The Objective Standard

Pulpit

Dr. Joseph Warren’s Massacre Day Oration (6 March 1775)

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More Wins: Nullification Movement News

Michael Boldin — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 22:28:31 +0000

Big steps forward – with bills passing on sound money, privacy, the right to keep and bear arms, CBDCs and more.

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Arizona Bullion Depository

SOUND MONEY

Utah Gold Reserves

Missouri Constitutional Money Act

CBDC

Two South Dakota Laws Take Steps Against a Central Bank Digital Currency

Indiana Passes Bill to Take Additional Steps Against a CBDC

Arizona Senate Passes Bill to Exclude CBDC from State Definition of Money

To the Governor: Utah Bill to Exclude CBDC from State Definition of Money

POLICE STATE

Kentucky House Passes Bill to Limit ALPR Data Retention, Help Block National License Plate Tracking Program

New York Senate Committee Passes Bill to End Civil Asset Forfeiture, Opt State Out of Federal Program

Maryland House Committee Holds Hearing on Bill to Limit “No-Knock” Warrants

FIREARM FINANCIAL PRIVACY

2ND AMENDMENT PRESERVATION

Kansas Gun Rights Preservation Act

Alaska Second Amendment Preservation Act

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“Mrs President,” Abigail Adams

Michael Boldin — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:42:58 +0000

Abigail Adams was a fierce advocate for independence, warned that power always grows, repeatedly pushed for the advancement of women, was an early opponent of slavery, a strong supporter of education – and an arms manufacturer too.

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Letter to John Adams (28 Jan 1797)

Letter to John Adams (27 Nov 1775)

Letter to John Adams (7 May 1776)

Letter to John Quincy Adams (28 Nov 1776)

Letter to John Adams (16 Oct 1774)

Letter to Catharine Sawbridge Macaulay (Fall, 1774)

Letter to John Adams (2 Mar 1776)

National Park Service – Abigail Adams

Letter to John Adams (31 Mar 1776)

Letter to John Thaxter (15 Feb 1778)

Letter to John Adams (14 Aug 1776)

Letter to John Quincy Adams (20 Mar 1780)

Letter to Elizabeth Smith Shaw (15 Oct 1786)

Letter to John Adams (22 Sept 1774)

Letter to Mary Smith Cranch (21 Dec 1800)

NPS – Bullet Mold

Letter to Thomas Boylston Adams (15 Mar 1787)

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Uncontrolled Despotism: Mercy Otis Warren on the Constitution

Michael Boldin — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 23:58:14 +0000

In her widely-read and influential anti-federalist essay, Mercy Otis Warren warned that the Constitution would abandon the principles of the American Revolution and facilitate consolidation of the states under a powerful national government. In other words, it would lead to unlimited centralized power – similar to the system the colonists had fought to leave.

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Observations on the new Constitution, and on the foederal and state conventions. By a Columbian patriot (1788)

Constitution Center: Mercy, Observations

TJ Martinell – Constitution Would “Terminate in the Most Uncontrolled Despotism”

Mercy Otis Warren: Wiki

James Otis, Sr.

Episode – Conscience, Muse and First Lady of the Revolution: Mercy Otis Warren

LOC: The Secret Muse of the Bill of Rights

Episode – The Imperial Senate: Anti-Federalist Warnings

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 84 (28 May 1788)

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CNN Propaganda: Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act

Michael Boldin — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:02:37 +0000

On the recently-passed Utah “Constitutional Sovereignty Act,” the fear-mongering, lies and disinformation are bad – even for CNN standards.

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Signed as Law: Utah Creates Process to End State Enforcement of Some Federal Acts

Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act

Anti-Commandeering: An overview of five major Supreme Court cases

CNN – Utah’s new ‘Sovereignty Act’ sets up a process to overrule the federal government. But is it constitutional?

Gov. Spencer Cox – Statement on SB57

Supreme Court – 16-476 Murphy v. NCAA (14 May 2018)

Deseret News

Fox News

The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial Board

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Tyranny 101: How the Federal Reserve Powers the Monster State

Michael Boldin — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:41:14 +0000

The central bank is the engine that powers the largest government in history. And things won’t change until people are “generally and radically instructed” as to the cause and consequences.

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Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Law (6 Nov 1813)

Maharrey – How the Federal Reserve Backstops the Biggest Government in History

John Taylor of Caroline – An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814)

Benjamin Franklin, Of the Paper Money of America (1780)

Benjamin Franklin to Dumas (17 May 1779)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to John Adams (21 Mar 1819)

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The Perils of Centralization: Anti-Federalist Federal Farmer No. 2-3

Michael Boldin — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 22:17:45 +0000

The Federal Farmer lays out a laundry list of reasons why the system under the constitution “will have a strong tendency to aristocracy, or the government of the few.” Predicting it would ultimately result in a consolidated government ruling by “fear and force.”

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Episode – Beware of Tyrants: Anti-Federalist Federal Farmer No. 1

TJ Martinell – The Federal Farmer: The Constitution Would Lead to a Complete Consolidation

Federal Farmer II (9 Oct 1787)

Episode – No Representation: Antifederalist Brutus No. 4

Jason Mandresh – Founder of the Day – Federal Farmer II

Episode – Consolidation Leads to Force: Antifederalist Cato No. 3

Tara Ross – Federal Farmer II

Federal Farmer III (10 Oct 1787)

Jason Mandresh – Founder of the Day – Federal Famer III

Tara Ross – Federal Farmer III

TJ Martinell – Federal Farmer: Constitution creates “a strong tendency to aristocracy”

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Asset Forfeiture is Theft: Another Supreme Court Fail

Michael Boldin — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 20:51:58 +0000

Many people believe the Supreme Court “ended asset forfeiture” with its 2019 opinion in Timbs v. Indiana. That’s not only false, but by trying to expand federal power to stop asset forfeiture in the states, they might have made things even worse in the long run.

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Five Years Later Supreme Court Decision Still Hasn’t Significantly Limited Asset Forfeiture

Episode – Asset Forfeiture was Not Ended by the Supreme Court

X Post – Hawaii Asset Forfeiture Bill

Supreme Court – Timbs v Indiana (pdf)

Case Background

8th Amendment

Indiana Constitution – Article I – Bill of Rights

Cornell Law – Incorporation Doctrine

Selective Incorporation by Amendment

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Constitution 101: Enforcement Mechanism

Michael Boldin — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 20:35:54 +0000

Yes, there actually is an enforcement mechanism to keep the federal government within the bounds of the constitution. But it has nothing to do with trying to convince the feds to limit their own power.

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Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sept 1820)

James Madison – The Report of 1800 (7 Jan 1800)

James Madison – Federalist 50 (5 Feb 1788)

Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for Kentucky Resolutions (4 Oct 1798)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

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Beware of Tyrants: Anti-Federalist Federal Farmer No. 1

Michael Boldin — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:59:24 +0000

In the first of his 18 anti-federalist letters, the Federal Farmer warned against adopting a new system hastily out of fear, which has always “been the custom of tyrants and their dependents.” Instead, he urged caution – and a deeper look at what might lead to total consolidation and a destruction of liberty.

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Jason Mandresh – Founder of the Day Overview

Episode – Antifederalist: Top Warnings from the Federal Farmer

Lee Family Digital Archive – Letters from The Federal Farmer

Gordon S. Wood – The Authorship of the Letters from the Federal Farmer

Janson Mandresh – Founder of the Day, Federal Farmer I

Tara Ross – Federal Farmer I

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Ramping Up: Nullification Movement News

Michael Boldin — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 22:24:12 +0000

The latest from the 10th Amendment Movement: Second Amendment Preservation Act, Defend the Guard, Rejecting CBDC, Financial privacy – and more.

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Roger Sherman (7 Dec 1787)

Utah Constitutional Sovereignty Act

Georgia Second Amendment Preservation Act

Louisiana SAPA

Iowa SAPA

Arizona Defend the Guard

Maryland Defend the Guard

South Dakota House Passes Two Bills to Take Steps Against a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC)

Indiana Firearm Financial Transactions Privacy

Utah Firearm Financial Transactions Privacy

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The Revolution vs Unlimited, Centralized Power

Michael Boldin — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 20:15:14 +0000

Taxation without representation, standing armies, suspending legislatures, and so much more – these were all symptoms of a much greater, underlying issue – the British claim of power over the colonies “in all cases whatsoever.”

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Maharrey – The American Revolution Was a Rejection of Unlimited, Centralized Power

Declaratory Act (1766)

Sir Francis Bernard – Principles in Law and Polity Applied to the Government of the British Colonies in America (1764)

Benjamin Franklin – Examination before the Committee of the Whole of the House of Commons (13 Feb 1766)

John Adams – Diary (Apr 1766)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania VIII (1767)

John Adams – Notes for an oration at Braintree (Spring 1772)

Joseph Warren – A List of Infringements and Violations of Rights (20 Nov 1772)

Samuel Adams – Report to the Town of Boston (23 Mar 1773)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Joseph Hawley (4 Oct 1773)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Samuel Adams (13 Oct 1773)

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress (15 Dec 1774)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Joseph Galloway (25 Feb 1775)

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (6 July 1775)

Thomas Jefferson’s Fair Copy Draft (26 June 1775)

Thomas Paine – The Crisis I (23 Dec 1776)

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War Powers and George Washington

Michael Boldin — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 04:25:37 +0000

Supporters of unilateral executive war powers want you to believe that kind of power is ok – because George Washington engaged in war without getting authorization from congress. They’re either ignorant, or lying – or both.

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George Washington – Sentiments on a Peace Establishment (1 May 1783)

Resolution of the Continental Congress Creating the Peace Establishment (3 June 1784)

Confederation Congress Committee Report (20 Feb 1787)

Resolution of the Continental Congress (21 Jul 1787)

Resolution of the Continental Congress Renewing the Peace Establishment, 3 October 1787

George Washington – Special Message to the Senate (7 Aug 1789)

George Washington – Special Message to the Senate (10 Aug 1789)

Arthur St. Clair – Letter to Pres. Washington (14 Sept 1789)

Pres. Washington, Letter to the House and Senate (16 Sept 1789)

Act for the “Establishment of Troops” and for Other Purposes (29 Sept 1789)

George Washington – Letter to Arthur St. Clair (6 Oct 1789)

An Act for regulating the Military Establishment of the United States (30 Apr 1790)

Gov. William Blount (TN) – Letter to Henry Knox (26 Sept 1792)

Gov. William Blount TN – Letter to Henry Knox (11 Sept 1792)

Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington (9 Oct 1792)

Henry Knox – Letter to William Blount (9 Oct 1792)

Pres. Washington – Special Message to the Senate and House (7 Dec 1792)

George Washington, Letter to Gov. Henry Lee VA (6 May 1793)

Henry Knox – Letter to Gov. Blount TN (14 May 1793)

George Washington, Letter to William Moultrie (28 Aug 1793)

George Washington – Fifth Annual Message to Congress (3 Dec 1793)

George Washington – Letter to Timothy Pickering (5 Mar 1795)

Treaty with the Cherokee (26 June 1794)

Treaty with the Creeks (29 June 1796)

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The Big “Invasion” they Want you to Ignore

Michael Boldin — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 21:11:27 +0000

While most people think of the word “invasion” in one context only, the Founders also used it in a way that’s almost completely ignored today.

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James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

John Lansing – New York Ratifying Convention (20 June 1788)

An Old Whig IV (27 Oct 1787)

Henry Gibbs – Letter to Roger Sherman (16 July 1789)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Patrick Henry (14 Sept 1789)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Judge Nap – A Constitution the Government Evades

Naomi Brockwell on X – NSA buying data

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania vii (1767)

TAC on X – NICS Checks via FPC

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Constitution 101: The Supremacy Clause

Michael Boldin — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 21:41:24 +0000

One of the most twisted and abused clauses of the Constitution – most people get it almost totally backwards.

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Cornell Law – Supremacy Clause

Maharrey – Understanding Federal Supremacy

William Davie – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Gov. Johnston – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

James Iredell

Alexander Hamilton – New York Ratifying Convention (28 June 1788)

James Madison – Federalist 45

John Taylor of Caroline – Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (1820)

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Immigration: James Madison’s View

Michael Boldin — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:41:13 +0000

The “Father of the Constitution” had a view on delegated and reserved powers over immigration that’s far different than almost everyone today.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: January 26, 2024

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A Bill Declaring Who Shall Be Deemed Citizens of This Commonwealth (18 June 1779)

Blackstone’s Commentaries B.1, c. 10 (1765)

John Jay’s Opinion in Ware v. Hylton (7 June 1793)

Thomas Jeferson – Letter to George Hammond (29 May 1792)

Maharrey – James Madison and the First American Immigration Crisis

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

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Federal Courts: Warnings from Mason and Jefferson

Michael Boldin — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 22:31:59 +0000

One of George Mason’s leading objections to ratification was the structure of the federal judiciary. Thomas Jefferson signaled that he liked it at first, but in the years to follow, considered it the leading engine of consolidation, and the destruction of the constitution.

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George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788)

James Madison, Letter to George Washington (19 Oct 1787)

George Mason – Plan for the National Judiciary (27 Aug 1787)

George Mason’s Objections to the Constitution (22 Nov 1787)

George Mason – Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)

George Mason – Letter to Samuel Griffin (8 Sept 1789)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (20 June 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (15 Mar 1789)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Abigail Adams (11 Sept 1804)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Spencer Roane (6 Sept 1819)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (before 4 Oct 1798)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Thomas Ritchie (25 Dec 1820)

Thomas Jefferson – to Judge Spencer Roane (9 Mar 1821)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Nathanael Macon (23 Nov 1821)

Final say

Thomas Jefferson to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sept 1820)

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Push Back: Nullification Movement News

Michael Boldin — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 21:32:54 +0000

The feds aren’t going to limit their own power, so it’s up to the people and the states to get the job done. The latest update from the nullification movement with reports on the 2nd Amendment, financial surveillance, asset forfeiture, defend the guard, sound money, and more.

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Episode – How to Respond to Unconstitutional Acts

Utah Senate Passes Bill to Create Process to End State Enforcement of Some Federal Acts

Salt Lake Tribune – Can Utah ignore federal laws and regulations?

Anti-Commandeering: An overview of five major Supreme Court cases

Hawaii Asset Forfeiture

Colorado Asset Forfeiture

Wisconsin Firearms Financial Privacy

Episode – Nullification Win: 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act

New Hampshire House Passes Defend the Guard Act

Arizona Defend the Guard Act

West Virginia 2nd Amendment Preservation Act

Nebraska 2nd Amendment Preservation Act

Missouri Senate Committee Passes Bill That Would Treat Gold and Silver as Legal Tender

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The Founders Were Not Anarchists. But…

Michael Boldin — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 20:27:27 +0000

Yes, it’s true. The founders and old revolutionaries were by no means anarchists. But most people today don’t realize how radical some of their views were – for the time – and for today.

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Henry Knox, Letter to John Sullivan (21 May 1787)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Edmund Randolph (16 Oct 1787)

Pelatiah Webster – A Citizen of Philadelphia (8 Nov 1787)

William Pierce – Letter to George Turner (19 May 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 Apr 1819)

Josiah Warren – Equitable Commerce (1848)

Thomas Jefferson – First Inaugural Address (4 Mar 1801)

James Otis, Jr. – The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1763)

Lysander Spooner – No Treason VI. (1870)

John Taylor of Caroline – An Inquiry into the Principle and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814)

Murray Rothbard – The Ethics of Liberty (1982)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Thomas Paine – Common Sense (10 Jan 1776)

Benjamin Tucker – Declaration of Purpose, Liberty Vol 1, No. 1 (6 Aug 1881)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Francis W. Gilmer (7 June 1816)

Murray Rothbard – War, Peace and the State (Apr 1963)

James Madison – Philadelphia Convention (29 June 1787)

Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington (18 Jan 1790)

Episode – Militia vs Standing Army: The Founders’ View

Lysander Spooner – The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1860)

Episode – Compliance is Violence: Dickinson and Spooner on the Path to Liberty

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Benjamin Franklin’s Finest: Top Quotes on his Birthday

Michael Boldin — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:02:46 +0000

Born on January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin was world famous for his many contributions and accomplishments in various fields. He is widely remembered for his witty and wise quotes, but his legacy also includes essential insights on government, power, liberty and more.

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Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette (14 May 1781)

Observations on An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Disputes (1769)

Observations on The True Constitutional Means for Putting an End to the Disputes

Philadelphia Convention (4 June 1787)

Philadelphia Convention (17 Sept 1787)

Episode – A Republic. If you Can Keep it.

Letter to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy (13 Nov 1789)

Philadelphia Convention (2 June 1787)

Benjamin Franklin to Dumas (18 May 1779)

Of the Paper Money of America (1780)

Letter to Jane Mecom (1 Nov 1773)

JL Bell – The Full History of “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God”

Letter to James Bowdoin (25 Feb 1775)

Poor Richard’s Almanack

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The Big Lie: Jefferson and War with the Barbary States

Michael Boldin — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 20:37:35 +0000

Both left and right have been more than happy to perpetuate a huge lie in order to justify unilateral executive war powers never delegated to the president in the Constitution. They do this by telling a false story of how Thomas Jefferson responded to the Barbary Pirates in 1801. Learn what really happened with a timeline of events.

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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)

Monticello – First Barbary War

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Monroe (11 Nov 1784)

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Horatio Gates (13 Dec 1784)

John Adams – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (3 July 1786)

Treaty with Tripoli (1796)

James Cathcart, Letter to Sec of State (7 Oct 1800)

James Cathcart – Circular to the Consuls and Agents of the United States (21 Feb 1801)

An Act Providing for a Naval Peace Establishment (3 Mar 1801)

Notes of a Cabinet Meeting (15 May 1801)

Samuel Smith – to Commodore Richard Dale, US Navy (20 May 1801)

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Yusuf Qaramanli, Pasha and Bey of Tripoli (21 May 1801)

James Madison – Circular Letter to American Consuls, Mediterranean (21 May 1801)

Circular issued by James L. Cathcart, U.S. Consul, Tripoli (15 May 1801)

James Cathcart – Letter to James Madison (16 May 1801)

Clements Library – The Tripolitan War

Thomas Jefferson – First Annual Message to Congress (8 Dec 1801)

Act for Protection of Commerce and Seaman of the United States against the Tripolitan Corsairs (6 Feb 1802)

X Post – The Jeffersonian View in 3 points

John Jay, Letter to Gouverneur Morris (24 Sept 1783)

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Stop Doing This: Party-First Approach

Michael Boldin — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 21:29:59 +0000

There is “nothing more dangerous to the cause of truth and liberty than a party-spirit.” Yet, today, most people approach most issues through a party-first mentality. That has to stop for liberty to grow.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: January 12, 2024

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Trenchard and Gordon: Forgotten Influence on the Founders

John Adams – “U” to the Boston Gazette (29 Aug 1763)

Cato’s Letters No. 51 (4 Nov 1721)

Cato’s Letters No. 134 (29 June 1723)

Noah Webster, Letter to George Washington (20 Apr 1794)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Benjamin Franklin – Poor Richard Improved (1753)

Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson (13 Mar 1789)

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Militia vs Standing Army: The Founders’ View

Michael Boldin — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 23:12:44 +0000

To a vast majority of the founding generation, standing armies were extremely dangerous, “the bane of liberty.” The best way to prevent them? Render them unnecessary.

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Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

Noah Webster – An Examination Into the Leading Principles of America (17 Oct 1787)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

James Madison – Philadelphia Convention (23 Aug 1787)

George Mason – Philadelphia Convention (18 Aug 1787)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

Episode – Why the Founders Warned Against Standing Armies

George Mason – Philadelphia Convention (14 Sept 1787)

Gen. Samuel Thompson – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 29 (10 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Joseph Priestly (19 June 1802)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

Tench Coxe – An American Citizen: An Examination of the Constitution of the United States IV (21 Oct 1788)

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (11 Dec 1787)

James Monroe – Observations on the Constitution (25 May 1788)

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Nullify the Fed: Big Steps in 2024?

Michael Boldin — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 20:31:37 +0000

The federal reserve is not going to end itself. And Congress will never cut off its money printer. It’s going to take big steps by the states – and human action by the people themselves – to put the central bank where it belongs, in the dustbin of history.

Path to Liberty: January 8, 2024

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Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788)

Episode – Nullify the Fed

New Hampshire HB1674 legal tender

Ending the Federal Reserve from the Bottom Up

Missouri SB735

Indiana – Legal Tender HB1043

Florida – Legal Tender H697/S750

Indiana CBDC

Utah – CBDC HB164

Wisconsin – CBDC AB725

South Carolina – CBDC S861

Missouri – CBDC SB826

Tennessee HB1481/SB311

Alaska HB3

South Carolina H3080

Oklahoma SB1507

Oklahoma – Depository SB1351

Tennessee – Depository SB1150

North Carolina – Study H721

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You’ve Been Lied To

Michael Boldin — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:18:50 +0000

We’ve been told a lot of lies, but few have caused more damage to liberty than the one about how we’re supposed to respond to unconstitutional federal acts – usurpations of power.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: January 5, 2024

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Lysander Spooner – A Defense for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolutions (29 May 1765)

Episode – That Which is Not Law Ought Not to be Obeyed

Archibald Maclaine – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Gouverneur Morris – Philadelphia Convention (11 July 1787)

St. George Tucker

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Samuel Adams (5 Oct 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (Before 4 Oct 1798)

Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

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We Have it in our Power to Begin the World Over Again

Michael Boldin — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:59:54 +0000

The founders and old revolutionaries left us a ton of advice and strategy on how to keep government in check. It won’t be quick or easy, but as Thomas Paine put it in Common Sense, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again”

Path to Liberty: January 3, 2024

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Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

James Otis, Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (before 4 Oct 1798)

John Dickinson – Broadside against the Stamp Act (1765)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Lafayette (2 Apr 1790)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Rev. Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

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Bill of Rights: Unnecessary and Dangerous?

Michael Boldin — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:37:44 +0000

During the ratification debates, Federalists repeatedly warned that adding a bill of rights would be unnecessary – and even dangerous. Learn what they had to say – where they made good points – and missed the mark too.

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Federalists and Antifederalists Debate a Bill of Rights

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 Oct 1787)

Melancton Smith’s notes of the Confederation Congress (27 Sept 1787)

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Edward Carrington (27 May 1788)

Episode – Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of Why it Exists

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 Oct 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 25 (21 Dec 1787)

James Wilson – State house yard speech (6 Oct 1787)

Noah Webster – A Citizen of America (17 Oct 1787)

Charles Pinckney – Speech in South Carolina House of Representatives (18 Jan 1788)

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (28 Nov 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 84 (16 July 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (20 Dec 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Dec 1791)

Episode – Bill of Rights: Most Important Amendment?

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Tis the Season. For Nullification.

Michael Boldin — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 21:14:28 +0000

Nullification Season 2024 starts now. Following the advice and strategy of the Founders, the people and the states can take action to reject, resist and nullify federal programs in practice and effect.

Path to Liberty: December 13, 2023

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Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 28 (28 Dec 1787)

Missouri Legal Tender

Florida Legal Tender
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New Hampshire CDC

South Carolina – Defend the Guard

Episode – Defend the Guard: Support the Constitution, Resist the Empire

Missouri – Raw Milk

Wisconsin – Raw Milk

New Hampshire Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act

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Blueprint: Rhetoric, Resistance and the Revolution

Michael Boldin — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 02:25:14 +0000

When Founders like Madison, Jefferson, Sherman, Iredell and others told us to use non-compliance and other forms of resistance to keep government in check – they were following the same blueprint that was used in the American Revolution.

Path to Liberty: December 11, 2023

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The Message of the Farmer Letters

Blueprint: Rhetoric and Resistance Against the Townshend Acts

James Otis, Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

John Dickinson – Broadside against the Stamp Act (1765)

Episode – The Peoples’ Nullification of the Stamp Act

Quartering Act of 1765

Virginia Association (17 May 1769)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Tea Act

Maharrey – “Solemn League and Covenant” Published

Episode – Blueprint for Liberty: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774

Maharrey – Suffolk Resolves Calling for Non-Compliance and Resistance to British Acts

Maharrey – Continental Congress Adopts Declaration of Colonial Rights

Maharrey – First Continental Congress Passes the Continental Association

Episode – It Was Gun Control: What Started the War for Independence

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 Jul 1775)

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Don’t Try, They’ll Crush You!

Michael Boldin — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:45:04 +0000

A lot of people – even friends of liberty – want you to believe that the federal government has always been so powerful that acts of resistance by the people and the states will just be mercilessly crushed by central power. But this is pure propaganda.

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Murray Rothbard – The Whiskey Rebellion: A Model for our Time?

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Episode – The Peoples’ Nullification of the Stamp Act

James Madison – Federalist 46

Maharrey – Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 Passed

Episode – Jefferson Nullified? The Embargo of 1807-09

Book: The History of State Legislative Resistance

Opposition to the War of 1812 in the United States

Episode – Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: One of the Worst Ever

Episode – Lessons from Nullifornia: Part 1, Plants

Episode – James Madison vs Federal Gun Control

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That Which is Not Law Ought Not to Be Obeyed

Michael Boldin — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:44:29 +0000

A patriot and a hero to the American Revolutionaries, Algernon Sidney was seen as a martyr for liberty for writing, but not even publishing, words based on natural rights the crown felt were a threat to its hold on power.

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Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)

Samuel Cooper – A Sermon On The Day of The Commencement of The Constitution (25 Oct 1780)

John Adamson rebellion

James Otis, Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

Algernon Sidney: Forgotten Founding Father

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

James Otis, Jr – The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)

John Jay – Address to the People of New York (1788)

Thomas Jefferson to Mason Locke Weems (13 Dec 1804)

Episode – Jefferson’s Favorite Book on Government?

John Adams – Argument for the Defense (3-4 Dec 1770)

Benjamin Franklin’s Library Inventory 1781

Madison’s “list of books proper for Congress” 1783

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James Madison vs Federal Gun Control

Michael Boldin — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 21:43:35 +0000

Zero. That’s the number of federal gun control measures authorized by the Constitution. But they’re not going to end themselves. As the “Father of the Constitution” told us – it’s up to the people and the states to get the job done.

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ATF – Facts and Figures for Fiscal Year 2022

Federal Gun Control Enforcement Numbers Dip, But Biden ATF Maintains Status Quo

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Dear Feds: GFY

Michael Boldin — Sat, 02 Dec 2023 00:02:37 +0000

The largest government in history is incredibly abusive – of your rights, of your money, of the constitution – of pretty much everything. The people need a massive change of attitude towards it if they ever want to turn things around.

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 Apr 1819)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1698)

Jefferson’s Favorite Book on Government?

James Otis, Jr. – The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)

John Locke – Two Treatises

Archibald Maclaine – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 Jul 1788)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Jane Mecom (1 Nov 1773)

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America (July 1774)

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The 10th Amendment They Want You To Ignore

Michael Boldin — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:16:29 +0000

Politicians love that the people know little to nothing about “the foundation of the Constitution” – and how to keep the government in check, whether the government people like it, or not.

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James Wilson – Oration on the Fourth of July, 1788

Maharrey: The Real Constitution They Don’t Want You to Know About

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

James Madison – Federalist 45

John Jay – Address to the People of the State of New York (1788)

Episode – Arbitrary Government: How the Founders Defined Tyranny

James Wilson – State House Yard Speech (6 Oct 1787)

Tenth Amendment Overview

John Dickinson – Fabius IV (1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (5 Feb 1788)

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Resist Much. Obey Little.

Michael Boldin — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 00:25:25 +0000

Creating a real “land of the free” requires a people who not only love liberty – but have the backbone to resist and defy governments that violate their constitutions and their rights. We’ve got a lot of work to do to get there too.

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Harry Browne – Why Government Doesn’t Work

John Jay – Address to the People of New York (1788)

Oliver Ellsworth – The Landholder No. 3 (19 Nov 1787)

Old Abraham White – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (16 Jan 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

Samuel Adams – Letter to James Warren (24 Oct 1780)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Murray Rothbard – Nations by Consent

Episode – Did the Constitution Fail?

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (5 Feb 1788)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 Jul 1788)

Walt Whitman’s Caution

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Nullify This! Top-4 for 2024

Michael Boldin — Sat, 18 Nov 2023 02:41:51 +0000

With “nullification season” right around the corner, here’s an overview of the top-4 programs that absolutely have to go if we ever want to get to a real “land of the free”

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (17 Nov 1798)

Episode – Top-5 Principles from the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

Hunter Hastings – How the Fed Grows Government

Central Bank Digital Currency: Paper Money isn’t the Solution

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Episode – 4 Essential Steps to Nullify Federal Gun Control

Episode – Nullify the National Police State: Top-5 to Opt Out

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

James Madison – Philadelphia Convention (23 Aug 1787)

Defend the Guard: A Powerful Check on Unconstitutional War Powers

Episode – Defend the Guard: Support the Constitution, Resist the Empire

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Breaking Free from the Monster State

Michael Boldin — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 20:39:05 +0000

In order to go from the largest government in history to a real “land of the free” – these 5 foundational principles from the founders and old revolutionaries – are an absolute must.

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Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Benjamin Rush – Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government (1786)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Charles Yancey (6 Jan 1816)

Samuel Adams – Valerius Poplicola, Boston Gazette (5 Oct 1772)

Episode – Strike the Root: Consolidation

Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell (25 Dec 1820)

Benjamin Franklin – Reply to the Governor (11 Nov 1755)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)

John Adams – Thoughts on Government (April 1776)

George Washington – Circular to the States (8 June 1783)

John Dickinson – Fabius III (17 Apr 1788)

Episode – Who’s to Blame? Freedom and Responsibility

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 Jul 1788)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Rev. Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (17 Nov 1798)

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John Dickinson: A “Great Worthy of the Revolution”

Michael Boldin — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 20:23:12 +0000

A name almost totally forgotten today, John Dickinson was famous – known as “The Penman of the American Revolution.” A true Lockean in support of liberty, life and property – he helped lead the opposition to the Stamp Act, the Declaratory Act, the Townshend Acts – and much more.

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Monticello – John Dickinson

John Dickinson – Broadside against the Stamp Act (1765)

Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (19 Oct 1765)

Rev War and Beyond

Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania (1767)

Wiki: Letters

Letter VI

Letter XI

Who are a Free People?

Letter IX

The Message of the Farmer Letters

Letter XII

Episode – Lessons for Liberty from John Dickinson and the Farmer Letters

Episode – Otis, Adams, Dickinson: The Massachusetts Circular Letter

An essay on the constitutional power of Great-Britain over the colonies in America (1774)

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 Jul 1775)

John Dickinson Put His Money Where His Mouth Was

Jane Calvert – John Dickinson Writings Project

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Joseph Bringhurst (24 Feb 1808)

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Jefferson: Top-5 Principles from the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

Michael Boldin — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:17:05 +0000

Nov 10, 1798 – Thomas Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolutions were passed by the General Assembly. Learn 5 core Jeffersonian principles about the nature of the Constitution – rooted in the principles of the American Revolution.

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Kentucky Resolutions – Passed by by General Assembly (10 Nov 1798)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves (1765)

Jefferson’s Draft (Before 4 Oct 1798)

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Jefferson’s Trinity

Michael Boldin — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 20:19:20 +0000

In a letter to Benjamin Rush, Thomas Jefferson told him of his “trinity of the three greatest men the world had ever produced.” Bacon, Newton and Locke.

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Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush (16 Jan 1811)

Paintings in Jefferson’s Parlor

Wiki: Age of Enlightenment

Wiki: Sir Francis Bacon

Benjamin Franklin – Poor Richard Improved (1749)

Monticello – Knowledge is Power

Thomas Jefferson to George Ticknor (25 Nov 1817)

Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell (25 Dec 1820)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Liberty Fund: Francis Bacon

The Ideas that Formed the Constitution: Sir Isaac Newton

Madison Debates (7 June 1787)

The Ideas that Formed the Constitution: John Locke and the Ninth Amendment

John Locke’s Case Against Absolute Rule

Episode – Illegitimate Government: John Locke on Tyranny

John Locke’s Appeal to Heaven: Its Continuing Relevance

Locke: Two Treatises – Chapter 17 S 225

John Locke and the Declaration of Independence

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3 Ways Hamilton Won. 1 He Didn’t.

Michael Boldin — Mon, 06 Nov 2023 20:50:08 +0000

Alexander Hamilton wanted a central government with unlimited power. And although he didn’t get it on paper, he still pushed for it in other ways after ratification. As a result, today we live under the largest government in history.

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The Hamilton Plan of Government (18 June 1788)

Thomas Paine – Letter to the Abbe Raynal (1792)

James Madison – The Report of 1800 (7 Jan 1800)

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (1774)

Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking up Arms (1775)

Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of Congress (15 Dec 1774)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to George Washington (9 Sept 1792)

The Supremacy Clause Resource Page

Centinel No. V (4 Dec 1787)

Alexander Hamilton’s “Implied Powers” Wrecked the Constitution

Hamilton’s Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States (1791)

Episode – Ten Thousand Implied Powers: Patrick Henry’s Final Antifederalist Speech

James Madison to Spencer Roane (2 Sept 1819)

Episode – Necessary is Supposed to Mean Necessary

Episode – Alexander Hamilton’s Craziest Plan

Maharrey: The Seeds of Nullification

Federalist 16 (4 Dec 1787)

Episode – The Seeds of Nullification: A Lesson from the Articles of Confederation

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Alexander Hamilton’s Craziest Plan

Michael Boldin — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 22:00:12 +0000

You thought a national bank, implied powers, the whiskey tax, and redefining necessary as convenient was bad enough? Wait till you hear what Hamilton really wanted to do.

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The Founders and the Constitution: Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Hamilton, June 18, 1787, Proposals for United States Constitutional Convention

June 16, 1787: Comparing the Plans

Madison Debates: June 18. 1787

The Hamilton Plan

Plan of Government – LOC (18 June 1787)

Thomas Paine – American Crisis (1776)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to George Washington (9 Sept 1792)

Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Rush (16 Jan 1811)

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How the National Bank Destroyed the Limits of Constitution

Episode – Hamilton’s Worst Flip Flop

Episode – George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion

Episode – Necessary is Supposed to mean Necessary

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This is Already an Economic Crisis

Michael Boldin — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 19:33:20 +0000

Deficits and the national debt have been growing for so long that most people just shrug when we talk about them. They seem to think that the government can just keep kicking the can down the road. But every road comes to an end.

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Maharrey – Fiscal 2023 Federal Budget Deficit Third-Largest Ever

James Madison – Letter to Henry Lee (13 Apr 1790)

Peter Schiff: A Crisis Is Already Playing Out Under the Radar

Wall Street Silver – Doom Loop

George Washington – Fifth Annual Message to Congress (3 Dec 1793)

SchiffGold – Record Borrowing on the Way

Daniel Lacalle – Mounting Deficits Mark the US’s Road to Ruin

Roll Call – $80 Billion for the IRS

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

A Ticking Time Bomb: National Debt Quietly Surges Above $33 Trillion

Does Government Debt Matter?

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to George Washington (9 Sept 1792)

Lysander Spooner – No Treason VI

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Bill of Rights: Most Important Amendment?

Michael Boldin — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:00:31 +0000

For many leading founders – from Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Adams – one amendment was not only the “foundation of the constitution,” but also “the Palladium of the private, and personal rights of the Citizens.”

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Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

John Jay – A Citizen of New York (1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Episode – Strike the Root: Consolidation

Consolidation and the Destruction of Liberty

John Taylor of Caroline – Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (1820)

Massachusetts Ratification (6 Feb 1788)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Elbridge Gerry (22 Aug 1789)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (24 Aug 1789)

New York Ratification (26 July 1788)

Virginia Ratification (26 June 1788)

South Carolina Ratification (23 May 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (28 Nov 1787)

Samuel Adams – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (1 Feb 1788)

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22 Years of Patriot Act Blowback

Michael Boldin — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 19:31:09 +0000

October 26, 2001 – We’re still grappling with the blowback that comes with allowing freedom to be eviscerated in exchange for the false promise of “security”

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Andrew Napolitano: Neither Liberty nor Safety

John Whitehead: 22 Years of Blowback from the USA Patriot Act

Benjamin Franklin – Reply to the Governor (11 Nov 1755)

EPIC – Patriot Act Overview

Sharon Bradford Franklin – Rethinking Surveillance

Marcy Wheeler – Section 215 CDR

William Binney – The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by NSA alumni

EFF – NSA Surveillance Under Section 702

EFF – ‘Incidental,’ Not Accidental, Collection

Episode – Like a Cancer: Warrantless Surveillance under Section 702

John Whitehead: Who Will Protect Us from an Unpatriotic Patriot Act?

Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act

Episode – Patriot Act on Steroids: Surveillance State Beyond Section 215

How Patriot Act Affects Financial Institutions?

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part II (1792)

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We the People: Both the Solution and the Problem

Michael Boldin — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:48:30 +0000

For James Madison, the people of the several states were both the source of all power – and thus the ultimate solution to usurpations – but at the same time, the source of many of the problems due to the tendency towards factions – ultimately leading to the majority trampling on the rights of the minority.

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Philadelphia Convention (31 Aug 1787)

Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)

Speech Introducing Amendments to the Constitution (8 June 1789)

Letter to Thomas Jefferson (19 Mar 1787)

Virginia Ratifying Convention (6 June 1788)

Virginia Ratifying Convention (11 June 1788)

Federalist 46 (29 Jan 1788)

Virginia Resolutions (21-23 Dec 1798)

Report of 1800 (7 Jan 1800)

Maharrey: The Power of Factions

Federalist 10 (23 Nov 1787)

Federalist 50 (5 Jan 1788)

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We’ve Got a Serious Compliance Problem

Michael Boldin — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 22:51:30 +0000

The largest government in history is not even remotely close to the system the founders set up under the Constitution. Things didn’t get like this overnight – and there’s a root cause for why it’ll keep getting worse. Understanding it is to also understand the solution.

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James Madison – Federalist 45

Alexander Hamilton – New York Ratifying Convention (28 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

Maharrey: The Biggest, Most Powerful Government in the History of the World

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania VII (1767)

James Otis – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)

John Dickinson – Broadside against the Stamp Act (1765)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788)

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Nullify the National Police State: Top-5 to Opt Out

Michael Boldin — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 19:37:57 +0000

Thanks to a growing number of unconstitutional federal programs, local law enforcement in almost every jurisdiction has been drawn in as tools of a national police state the founders would’ve despised. But states aren’t required to participate, even under modern precedent. Here are 5 big areas where they can simply opt out and help bring this unconstitutional national police state to an end.

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James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)

John Whitehead – America’s Crisis State Goes Global

John Whitehead – The Cost of the Nation’s Endless Wars

John Whitehead – 20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny

Episode – Militarized Federal Agencies: The Other Standing Army?

Episode – Top-4 Ways the Feds Nationalize and Militarize Local Police

Episode – Nullify the Federal “Equitable Sharing” Asset Forfeiture Program

Maharrey – Joint Law Enforcement Task Forces are Creating a National Police State

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Nullification 101: 6 Core Principles

Michael Boldin — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 19:38:11 +0000

Understanding nullification – what it is and what needs to be done – is far easier when you have a good understanding of these foundational principles underlying it.

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George Mason – Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company (Apr 1775)

Robert Livingston – New York Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788)

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

Free book – Tenth Amendment: Power from the People

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

“Lighthorse” Harry Lee – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

John Jay – A Citizen of New York (Apr 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

James Otis, Jr. – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Nov 1787)

James Madison – Federalist 49 (2 Feb 1788)

Thomas Jefferson’s Fair Copy (4 Oct 1798)

George Washington – Circular to the States (8 June 1783)

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Jefferson Nullified? The Embargo of 1807-09

Michael Boldin — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 18:12:55 +0000

Just 9 years after Thomas Jefferson called for nullification of the Alien and Sedition Acts – states and individuals took the same kind of strategy against his Embargo Act – signed by Pres. Jefferson in late 1807 – and a series of follow up acts to beef up enforcement of it.

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Dave Benner: Embargo Act Signed as Law

Wiki: Embargo Act of 1807

Political Cartoon OGRABME – Embargo Backwards

Albert Gallatin to Thomas Jefferson (18 Dec 1807)

Wiki: First Supplementary Act

H.A. Scott Trask – Mises – Jefferson’s Disastrous Embargo

Resolutions in Massachusetts

An American to Thomas Jefferson (26 Jan 1808)

Albert Gallatin to Thomas Jefferson (29 Feb 1808)

Albert Gallatin to Thomas Jefferson (12 Mar 1808)

LOC – 2nd Enforcement Act

Connecticut – Herman Ames: State Documents on Federal Relations (1911)

William Jarvis to James Madison (20 Aug 1807)

John Adams – Letter to Benjamin Rush (25 Feb 1808)

John Adams – Letter to William Steuben Smith (15 Apr 1808)

United States v. The William (1808)

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Foreign Policy of the Founders

Michael Boldin — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 19:22:02 +0000

Few areas from the Founders – if any – have been more widely rejected and misunderstood than their views and advice on foreign policy. Grasping their approach means understanding where it comes from as well.

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John Jay – Letter to Gouverneur Morris (24 Sept 1783)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

John Jay – Federalist 4 (4 Nov 1787)

James Monroe – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Thomas Paine – The American Crisis (23 Dec 1776)

Oliver Ellsworth – Philadelphia Convention (17 Aug 1787)

George Mason – Philadelphia Convention (17 Aug 1787)

John Jay, Speech at the opening of the Circuit Court at Richmond (22 May 1793)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (11 Dec 1787)

James Madison – Helvidius IV (14 Sept 1793)

The ideas that formed the Constitution: Vattel and the Law of Nations

Vattel – The Law of Nations

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 Apr 1798)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

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Property Rights are the Foundation of all the Rest

Michael Boldin — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 18:02:36 +0000

For many of the founders, property rights were the foundation of all the others. James Madison took things even further, arguing that people not only have a right to property, but also a property in their rights – tying property rights, self ownership and all natural rights together.

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Arthur Lee – An appeal to the justice and interests of the people of Great Britain, in the present dispute with America (1775)

John Adams – Discourses on Davila (1790-91)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 12 (1767)

Samuel Adams – Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

James Madison – Property (29 Mar 1792)

Tony Williams – Constituting America

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1913 Was a Terrible Year for the Constitution and Liberty

Michael Boldin — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:20:57 +0000

One of the worst years ever, 1913 gave us the tools that support the largest government in history

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George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (2 June 1787)

Cato VI (13 Dec 1787)

Wiki: Taft’s Last Day in Office

About Commerce

Laurence Vance – The Constitution versus the Executive-Branch Departments

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Albert Gallatin (13 Oct 1802)

Dept of Labor Org Chart

Wiki: Living Constitution

Samuel Adams, James Otis – Massachusetts Circular Letter (11 Feb 1768)

Will Morrisey: The “Living” Constitution

17th Amendment

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (6 June 1788)

Revenue Act of 1913

Dave Benner: Woodrow Wilson Signs the Federal Reserve Act

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The Imperial Senate: Anti-Federalist Warnings

Michael Boldin — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 19:33:16 +0000

A permanent or baneful aristocracy – despite federalist assurances to the contrary – with senators mostly serving for life – that’s what many anti-federalists warned we’d get with the structure of the federal Senate.

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Fisher Ames – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (15 Jan 1788)

Federalist 62

Robert Livingston – New York Ratifying Convention (24 June 1788)

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

Melancton Smith – New York Ratifying Convention (25 June 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

Articles of Confederation – Article V

John Lansing – New York Ratifying Convention (24 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (12 June 1788)

Luther Martin – Genuine Information IV (8 Jan 1788)

CSAC: The Debate over the Senate

Montesquieu – Spirit of the Laws (1748)

Federalist 63 – Hamilton or Madison

James Wilson – State House Yard Speech (6 Oct 1787)

Cincinnatus IV (22 Nov 1787)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (4 Dec 1787)

John Adams – Letter to Cotton Tufts (23 Jan 1788)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (6 June 1788)

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Nailed it: Four Big Predictions from the Founders

Michael Boldin — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 18:16:56 +0000

They certainly didn’t get everything right, but when they did, they almost seemed prophetic. Consolidation, executive power, factions and the ultimate end of despotism.

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William Grayson – Virginia Ratifying Convention (18 June 1788)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (17 Sept 1787)

A Republic. But They Didn’t Keep it.

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Patrick Henry (14 Sept 1789)

Brutus No. 1

Centinel No. 5 (4 Dec 1787)

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (4 June 1787)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

William Grayson – Virginia Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788)

John Adams – Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 Oct 1780)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Henry Lee to James Madison (3 Apr 1790)

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How they Dealt with Collaborators

Michael Boldin — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 19:14:50 +0000

In the years leading up to the War for Independence, the revolutionaries took an increasingly hostile stance against people who collaborated with or helped the British. And no, it wasn’t just tarring and feathering.

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American Battlefield Trust – Tarring and Feathering

JL Bell – 5 Myths of Tarring and Feathering

History.com – Boston Port Act

Our American Revolution

Samuel Adams – Letter to John Dickinson (21 Apr 1774)

Circular Letter of the Boston Committee of Correspondence (13 May 1774)

Wiki – Aftermath of the Act

Samuel Adams – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (15 July 1774)

Wiki – First Continental Congress

Mike Maharrey: Suffolk Resolves Calling for Non-Compliance and Resistance to British Acts

Episode – Blueprint for Liberty: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774

Samuel Adams – Letter to Charles Chauncy (19 Sept 1774)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Joseph Warren (25 Sept 1774)

Mike Maharrey – Boston Resolution Against Helping Redcoats Passed

Meeting of the Committees of Boston and the neighbouring Towns (27 Sept 1774)

Solemn League and Covenant (4 July 1774)

Continental Association (20 Oct 1774)

Wiki – Continental Association: Enforcement

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Top Myths about Nullification

Michael Boldin — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:51:24 +0000

We hear them over, and over, and over again – the same, tired, worn out myths or downright lies about nullification.

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James Madison – Notes on Nullification (1834)

Thomas Jefferson – Fair Copy, Kentucky Resolutions (before 4 Oct 1798)

James Otis, Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33

Episode – Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: One of the Worst Ever

Episode – Did James Madison Reject Nullification?

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (17 Nov 1798)

James Madison: Four Steps to Stop Federal Programs

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (1788)

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Patrick Henry: Top Anti-Federalist Warnings

Michael Boldin — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 21:14:27 +0000

In a series of speeches during the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry laid out much of the anti-federalist case against ratification without amendments. The foundation underlying all his arguments was a consistent warning against consolidation – or centralized power – and trusting people with that power.

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Episode – We the People or We the States: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speech No. 1

Speech of June 4, 1788

Speech of June 5, 1788

Speech of June 9, 1788

Speech of June 14, 1788

Speech of June 7, 1788

Episode – Treaties, Trials and Supremacy: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speeches 8-10

Episode – Implied vs Expressly Reserved: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speeches 5-7

Patrick Henry – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (28 Aug 1789)

Virginia and the Ratification of the Bill of Rights

Henry Lee to James Madison (3 Apr 1790)

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Nullify the Fed

Michael Boldin — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 21:24:20 +0000

The federal reserve isn’t going to end itself. And congress isn’t going to cut off the engine that drives the biggest, most powerful government in the history of the world. It’s up to the states and the people to nullify it into oblivion – where it belongs.

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Episode – The Central Bank vs the Constitution

Book: The National Bank vs the Constitution

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Maharrey: How the National Bank Destroyed the Limits of the Constitution

Maharrey: How the Fed Wrecks the Economy

Maharrey – Central Bank Digital Currency: Paper Money isn’t the Solution

United Precious Metals Association (UPMA)

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: One of the Worst Ever

Michael Boldin — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:27:39 +0000

Sept 18, 1850 – Pres. Millard Fillmore signed the 2nd Federal Fugitive Slave Act into law. An attempt to implement the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution, the act, at best, had serious constitutional issues. In response, as had been done under the previous act, states passed Personal Liberty Laws which nullified the federal act in practice and effect.

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Today in History: Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Signed into Law

Compromise of 1850

Wiki: Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Fugitive Slave Clause – Constitution, Article IV, Sec. 2, Cl 3

Constitution Center Tells the Same False Story

The Constitutional Convention: The Fugitive Slave Clause

Constitution: Article IV, Section 2

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine: An Introduction

Prigg v Pennsylvania

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855)

William Lloyd Garrison – Editorial in the Liberator (1 Nov 1850)

Walt Whitman’s Caution

South Carolina Secession: the Truth

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Spooner’s Other Statements on the Constitution

Michael Boldin — Fri, 15 Sep 2023 21:08:06 +0000

Despite writing on the Constitution for decades – few people today seem to even know the name Lysander Spooner. And most who do, rarely know more than one quote. Time to turn that around.

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Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency and Banking (1843)

A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

James Otis, Jr. – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

The Unconstitutionality of the Legal Tender Acts of Congress (1864)

Richard Henry Lee – via Melancton Smith’s notes of the Confederation Congress (27 Sept 1787)

Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (1860)

Thomas Jefferson to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sept 1820)

An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1862)

Thomas Jefferson’s Fair Copy – Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

A Letter to Grover Cleveland (1886)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Nov 1787)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788)

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine: An Introduction

A letter to Thomas Bayard (1882)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (5 Feb 1788)

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Why the Founders Warned Against Standing Armies

Michael Boldin — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 19:36:28 +0000

All the founders agreed that standing armies were a great threat to liberty. The only debate was really the best way to prevent those dangers. But they didn’t come up with this view on their own – it was part of a very long tradition that was opposed to large, permanent military establishments.

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John Trenchard – A short History of Standing Armies in England (1698)

English Bill of Rights (1689)

Using Tyranny to Prevent Tyranny: A Warning on Standing Armies

The Debate over Standing Armies and Militias in Early America

A Democratic Federalist (17 Oct 1787)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

James Madison – Philadelphia Convention (23 Aug 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 8 (20 Nov 1787)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Gen. George Washington Bids Farewell to the Fabled Continental Army

George Washington – Sentiments on a Peace Establishment (1 May 1783)

Henry Knox – Plan for the General Arrangement of the Militia of the United Stats (18 Jan 1790)

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Top-5 to “Never Forget”

Michael Boldin — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:05:20 +0000

Forgotten long ago: Essential principles underlying the Constitution and liberty – right from the Founders. It’s time to turn that around.

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Benjamin Franklin – Reply to the Governor (11 Nov 1755)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 9 (1767)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)

John Taylor of Caroline – Tyranny Unmasked (1822)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Brutus No. VIII (10 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – letter to Destutt de Tracy of (26 Dec 1820)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 Apr 1819)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1698)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part II

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It was Gun Control: The Powder Alarm and the Road to Independence

Michael Boldin — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 23:20:45 +0000

Despite the fact that it proved to be mostly a false alarm, the “Powder Alarm” of 1774 showed the colonists that the British were serious – and willing to use gun control efforts to keep them in their place.

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Maharrey – British Seizure of Gunpowder Leads to “Powder Alarm”

American History Central – The Powder Alarm of Massachusetts

David Kopel – How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution

Wiki – Powder Alarm

Wiki – William Brattle

John Andrews Letter (1 Sept 1774)

JL Bell – Powder Alarm

JL Bell – Exaggerated Accounts

John Adams Diary (6 Sept 1774)

JL Bell – Israel Putnam and an express from Boston

JL Bell – Forcing Resignations

Episode – It Was Gun Control: What Started the War for Independence

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Dangerous Myth: Courts are the “Last Bulwark Against Tyranny”

Michael Boldin — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:53:24 +0000

Many people hold the false and dangerous view that the federal court system is not only the final say on the meaning of the Constitution – but take it even further – the courts represent the “last bulwark against tyranny.”

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sep 1820)

James Madison – Virginia Resolutions (21 Dec 1798)

George Mason – Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company (Apr 1775)

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John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 Jul 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions Fair Copy (1798)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

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Ignorance is the “Footstool of Despotism”

Michael Boldin — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:23:40 +0000

Ignorance of liberty, of the constitution, of the powers delegated to the government – and so much more – are just what tyrants absolutely love. And we’re literally surrounded by people who are willfully ignorant of it all.

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Charles Yancey (6 Jan 1816)

James Wilson – Oration of July 4, 1788

Samuel Adams – Essay as Valerius Poplicola – Boston Gazette (5 Oct 1772)

Benjamin Rush – Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government (1786)

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Benjamin Franklin – Poor Richard Improved (1755)

Constitution – Article V

Constitution – Article VI

Episode – Federal law is not “Always Supreme”

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

James Madison – Federalist 48

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Episode – Top-4 Myths About Nullification

Episode – 4 Totally Ignored Principles of the American Revolution

Rev. Samuel Stillman – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

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Liberty and Freedom: A View from the Founders

Michael Boldin — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 21:31:48 +0000

To many people today, liberty is little more than choosing new people to rule over them every few years. And even in the founding generation, there was a wide range of viewpoints on just what constitutes a state of liberty.

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Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Joseph Warren – Letter to Samuel Adams (15 June 1774)

John Dickinson – Letters to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies No. IV (15 June 1774)

Mercy Otis Warren – Preface to History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

Montesquieu – Spirit of the Laws vol 1 (1748)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1698)

James Lincoln – Speech in the South Carolina House (18 Jan 1788)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 12 (1767)

Fisher Ames – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (15 Jan 1788)

John Adams – Letter to John Taylor (15 April 1814)

Federal Farmer No. VI

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 Apr 1819)

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Fear is the Foundation of Government Power

Michael Boldin — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 21:24:16 +0000

A culture of obedience and compliance guarantees that government will never stop growing – and defiance and nullification represent the “rightful remedy” to usurpations of power. But today, many people live in fear – and never take the steps needed to help advance liberty.

Path to Liberty: August 23, 2023

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Thomas Paine (11 July 1789)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (1788)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (5 Nov 1772)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves (1765)

James Madison – On Nullification (Dec 1834)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33

Samuel Adams – Candidus in the Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

James Madison – Virginia Resolutions (21 Dec 1798)

James Madison – Federalist 46

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions Fair Copy (1798)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (1788)

John Adams – Thoughts on Government (1776)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

James Otis, Jr. – (11 Jan 1762)

Walt Whitman’s Caution

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Nullify the Federal “Equitable Sharing” Asset Forfeiture Program

Michael Boldin — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 19:35:37 +0000

Even when states end civil asset forfeiture, a federal program called “equitable sharing” encourages them to participate in a federal version anyway. But the states can opt-out and nullify the federal program into oblivion, where it belongs.

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Institute for Justice – Policing for Profit 3rd Edition

USA Today Report – Federal loophole thwarts state efforts to curb civil asset forfeiture by police

IJ – How States Stack Up

Episode – Criminal: The Federal “Equitable Sharing” Asset Forfeiture Program

IJ Report – New Mexico

IJ Report – California

IJ – How States Have Shrunk the Loophole

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Armies and Debts and Taxes. Oh My!

Michael Boldin — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:26:53 +0000

The founders warned us – over and over and over again – about the dangers to liberty from war. As James Madison put it, war gives us armies, which lead to debts and taxes. This trifecta makes up the “known instruments for putting the many under the domination of the few.”

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James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

James Madison – Helvidius No. 4 (14 Sept 1793)

Episode – War Powers and the Constitution: An Introduction

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (11 Dec 1787)

John Jay – Federalist No. 4

Thomas Paine – The Crisis V (21 Mar 1778)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

John Jay to Gouverneur Morris (24 Sept 1783)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part 1 (1791)

Joseph Warren – Massacre Day Oration (1775)

Samuel Adams to James Warren (1776)

Thomas Jefferson to Destutt de Tracy (26 Dec 1820)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Sir Joseph Banks (27 July 1783)

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Thomas Jefferson vs the Surveillance State

Michael Boldin — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 19:49:02 +0000

Applying Thomas Jefferson’s strategy for advancing liberty to the massive and ever-growing surveillance state we live under today. One state is following it well, and all other states should copy their strategy as much as possible.

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Thomas Jefferson to Rev Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)

2019 – Utah Law Bans Warrantless Access to Information in the Cloud

2021 – Utah Law Further Limits Warrantless Collection of Electronic Data

2022 – Utah Law Expands Limits on Drone Surveillance

2023 – Utah Law Restricts Geofence Location Tracking

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (17 Nov 1798)

Acoustic Gunshot Detection

Automate License Plate Readers

Episode – ALPR: Stalking You by Your License Plate

Facial Recognition

Montana Limits Warrantless use of Facial Recognition Technology

Surveillance Self-Defense

Naomi Brockwell – Twitter

5 Online Privacy Tips From Edward Snowden

Samuel Adams – Candidus in the Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

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Antifederalist: Top Warnings from the Federal Farmer

Michael Boldin — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:28:47 +0000

In his series of 18 letters, Federal Farmer repeatedly warned about the dangers of centralized power, predicting that the proposed government would end in “the destruction of freedom.”

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TJ Martinell – The Federal Farmer: The Constitution Would Lead to a Complete Consolidation

Tara Ross

Lee Family Archive

Federal Farmer III (10 Oct 1787)

Federal Farmer XVI (23 Jan 1788)

TJ Martinell – Federal Farmer Makes His Case for the Tenth Amendment

Jason Mandresh, FOTD

Federal Farmer VII (31 Dec 1787)

Tara Ross – Federal Farmer II

Federal Farmer IV (12 Oct 1787)

Tara Ross – Federal Farmer IV

Federal Farmer XI (10 Jan 1788)

Articles of Confederation Article 5

Jason Mandresh – FOTD – Comfortable Senators

Federal Farmer XIII (14 Jan 1788)

TJ Martinell – Federal Farmer: An “Unnecessary Departure” From Federalism

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Ten Thousand Implied Powers: Patrick Henry’s Final Antifederalist Speech

Michael Boldin — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 19:59:02 +0000

In his last major speech during the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry warned against the potential for “ten thousand implied powers,” and called for a number of amendments prior to ratification.

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Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (24 June 1788)

Concordia University Recap

Episode – Implied vs Expressly Reserved: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speeches 5-7

TJ Martinell – Patrick Henry’s Warning on “Implied Authority”

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Decentralization: The Cure for Polarization

Michael Boldin — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:35:19 +0000

Everywhere you turn, it seems like people are at each other’s throats. Everything has gotten political – and it’s only going to keep getting worse. Unless, of course, the people see the source of the problem – consolidation and factions and factions and consolidation – and take action to reject it.

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Yuval Levin – Constituting Unity

Hannah Cox – FEE

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution (Ch. XXXI)

Episode – Faction is Death to Liberty

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Gideon Granger (13 Aug 1800)

Episode – Consolidation Leads to Force: Antifederalist Cato No. 3

Samuel Adams – Letter to Elbridge Gerry (22 Aug 1789)

Mike Maharrey – The Most Essential Danger

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There’s Much More than Just the Federalist Papers

Michael Boldin — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 18:54:51 +0000

If you want to understand the Constitution – its original, legal meaning – don’t rely exclusively, or even primarily on the Federalist Papers. You’ll want to read other federalists like James Wilson, Tench Coxe and John Dickinson, plus the leading Anti-federalists as well.

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James Wilson – Lectures on Law

Maharrey – Learning the Constitution: An Introduction

James Madison to Henry Lee (25 June 1824)

Maharrey – Living and Breathing is the Same as Dead

Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson (12 June 1823)

Maharrey – The Nature of the Federal Government

Natelson – There’s Much More than Just the Federalist Papers

Aaron Coleman – The Original Meaning of the Federalist Papers

Natelson – Did the Iroquois Confederation Influence the Constitution?

Benner – James Wilson’s State House Yard Speech: A Primer

Episode – History Ignored: James Wilson’s Speech on the Constitution

Natelson – How our Constitution was Supposed to Work: New Evidence Comes to Light

Tench Coxe – An American Citizen I-IV (1787)

Tench Coxe – A Freeman, Essays I-III (1788)

George Washington – Letter to John Vaughan (27 Apr 1788)

Fabius Letters

Reflection and Choice: The Federalists, the Anti-Federalists, and the Debate that Defined America

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Top-4 That Need to Go

Michael Boldin — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 16:58:48 +0000

To support the constitution and liberty, these four big federal monstrosities absolutely need to go. But that doesn’t mean we should ever expect the people with power to voluntarily give up that power.

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How the National Bank Destroyed the Limits of Constitution

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank

Book – The National Bank vs the Constitution

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

PA Deacon – War: A Tool For Politicians to Centralize Power

Episode – The Power to Declare War: An Introduction

Episode – Defend the Guard: Support the Constitution, Resist the Empire

Episode – 4 Essential Steps to Nullify Federal Gun Control
Episode – The Constitution on the War on Drugs

Anthony Gregory – Gun Control and the War on Drugs

Episode – Lessons from Nullifornia: Part 1, Plants

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Swing and a Miss: ATF, CBDC, Dept of Education

Michael Boldin — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 18:36:10 +0000

Most efforts to stop federal programs miss the mark in a big way. Instead of striking the root, they hack at branches, often setting the stage for more of the same in the future.

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Episode – Strike the Root

Episode – Strike the Root: Consolidation

Fox Report on Education funding

YAL Twitter

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John Williams – New York Ratifying Convention (27 June 1788)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania VI (1767)

Report – Sheriff and ATF

Moran

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Rev. Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (17 Nov 1798)

Central Bank Digital Currency: Paper Money isn’t the Solution

Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington (27 May 1788)

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Strike the Root: Consolidation

Michael Boldin — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 18:21:32 +0000

If we truly want to build a real “land of the free,” it’s essential to understand the source of our problems. Using the wisdom and warnings of leading founders and old revolutionaries – we can point to consolidation, or centralization of power.

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Episode – Strike the Root

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson to Joseph C. Cabell (2 Feb 1816)

William Davie – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (25 July 1788)

Samuel Adams to Elbridge Gerry (22 Aug 1789)

Episode – The Dangers of Consolidation: Antifederalist Brutus No. 1

Brutus No. 1

James Madison to Thomas Jefferson (17 Oct 1788)

George Mason – July 4, 1788

Thomas Jefferson to Gideon Granger (13 Aug 1800)

Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

Maharrey – Resistance is Crucial to the Advancement of Liberty

Maharrey – The Federal Government is Too Big: George Mason Warned Us

TJ Martinell – Federal Farmer: A Confederated Republic or Consolidation

Federal Farmer XVII

Maharrey – The Power to Protect is the Power to Control

Fisher Ames – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (19 Jan 1788)

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Treaties, Trials and Supremacy: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speeches 8-10

Michael Boldin — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:04:59 +0000

In a series of speeches during the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry warned against a combination of the treaty, the judicial power and – the supremacy clause – that it would lead to government violating individual liberty with impunity.

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TJ Martinell – Patrick Henry Warns of “Dangerous and Destructive” Treaty Powers

June 18, 1788

June 19, 1788

June 20, 1788

TJ Martinell – Patrick Henry: Jury Trials Are the “Last and Best Privilege”

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Top Warnings from the Antifederalist Brutus

Michael Boldin — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:24:08 +0000

In his series of essays, Brutus repeatedly warned about the dangers of centralized power, predicting that the proposed government would end up exercising “infinite” and “incomprehensible” power.

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Episode – Infinite‌ ‌and‌ ‌Incomprehensible:‌ ‌Antifederalist‌ ‌Brutus‌ ‌No.‌ ‌5‌

All Brutus Episodes Here

Brutus V (13 Dec 1787)

Brutus VI (27 Dec 1787)

Episode – No Representation: Antifederalist Brutus No. 4

Brutus X (24 Jan 1788)

Brutus iii (15 Nov 1787)

Tara Ross

Unprecedented Judicial Power: Antifederalist Brutus No. 11

Independent of Heaven Itself: Antifederalist Brutus No. 15

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Five Big Flip-Flops from the Founders

Michael Boldin — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 18:34:40 +0000

An important lesson on power and human nature. Trust no one with power to endanger liberty. That includes – don’t trust the people who tell you to not trust people with power.

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Alexander Hamilton – New York ratifying convention (28 June 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – Opinion as to the Constitutionality of the Bank of the United States (1791)

James Madison – Speech on the Bank Bill (2 Feb 1791)

Episode – James Madison: The Constitution vs the National Bank

James Madison – 2nd Bank Veto Message (30 Jan 1815)

Kyle Scott – Constituting America

Samuel Adams – Rights of the Colonists (5 Nov 1772)

The Beehive: Mass Historical Society

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the National Bank (1791)

Dave Benner: Thomas Jefferson and the Louisiana Purchase

Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson (9 Aug 1803)

Thomas Jefferson to John Breckenridge (12 Aug 1803)

John Adams – A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law (1765)

Episode – Free Speech Under Attack: The Sedition Act of 1798

Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution

Episode – John Adams: From Revolutionary to Monarchist?

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ALPR: Stalking You by Your License Plate

Michael Boldin — Fri, 21 Jul 2023 17:06:49 +0000

The number of automated license plate readers has exploded to mind-boggling levels in recent years. Databases now contain billions of scans and they’re growing fast. This empowers local, state and federal governments to not just track you and build profiles on where you go, but also to use AI as a dystopian pre-crime tool to target people based on their driving patterns.

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WSJ – U.S. Spies on Millions of Drivers

EFF: ALPR Overview

DOJ Report – from 2012

ALPR and Muckrack – 2016-17

2019 – Joe Cadillic

EFF – California Study

Northern California Regional Intelligence Center – Fusion Centers 2020

Grid Neighborhoods

Expanding with AI – Forbes

PlateSmart

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Strike the Root

Michael Boldin — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 19:24:35 +0000

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”

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Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Henry David Thoreau – Walden

Abigail Adams to John Adams (27 Nov 1775)

Richard Henry Lee, letter to Patrick Henry (28 May 1789)

Episode – You’re not Going to Vote Your Way to Liberty

Maharrey: Whose Fault is This?

James Madison – Federalist 48

John Dickinson – Fabius III (17 Apr 1788)

James Madison – Virginia Resolutions of 1798

Thomas Jefferson’s Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

George Washington – Circular to the States (8 June 1783)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

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Gerry-Mandered

Michael Boldin — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 18:18:18 +0000

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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