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No Deal for Gun Control: How the American Revolutionaries Defied the Empire

By: Michael Boldin     June 12, 1775 –  less than 2 months after Lexington and Concord and the “shot heard ‘round the world,” General Gage made an offer he felt ...

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The Pilgrim Code of 1636: English Charter, Christian Covenant, and Modern Constitution

June 25, 2024 Founding Principles 0

By: Joe Wolverton, II     “As freeborn subjects of the state of England, we hither came endowed with all and singular the privileges belonging to such, in the first place ...

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Free Speech on Trial: Jailed But Re-elected

June 25, 2024 History 0

By: Michael Boldin     In a time of political turmoil, when criticism of the government could land you behind bars, Matthew Lyon, a congressman and fierce critic of the Federalist ...

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From Nixon to Biden: How the US Turned Banks into Spy Networks

By: Mike Maharrey     “Americans do not have financial privacy, really at all. We have this illusion of financial privacy.” Cato policy analyst Nicholas Anthony summed it up bluntly in an ...

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Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms

By: John Whitehead     The spirit of the Constitution, drafted by men who chafed against the heavy-handed tyranny of an imperial ruler, would suggest that one’s home is a fortress, ...

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Sovereignty and Agency

June 21, 2024 Agency / Sovereignty 0

By: Mike Maharrey     In the American political system, the people of the several states are sovereign, meaning they hold final or ultimate authority. Power flows from them to the ...

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The Steady Slide Towards Tyranny: How Freedom Dies from A to Z

June 21, 2024 Federal Power 0

By: John Whitehead     The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer towards a pervasive authoritarianism. The American people, the permanent underclass in America, have allowed themselves to be so ...

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A Positive Feedback Loop of Power-Grabbing

June 20, 2024 Founding Principles 0

By: Rudolph Kohn     The classical liberal philosophy expounded by John Locke and many of the American founders was a brilliant attempt to abolish government by the principle of “might ...

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10 States and Counting: 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act

By: Michael Boldin     Ten states – and counting – have passed a bill called the “2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act,” to nullify a gun control surveillance scheme in practice ...

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Utah’s Step-By-Step Strategy Against the Surveillance State

June 19, 2024 Strategy / Surveillance 0

By: Mike Maharrey     When it comes to political activism, a lot of people think they have to accomplish everything all at once. They propose or demand what amounts to ...

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