Why Do Business With Companies That Hate You?
by DOUGLAS ANDREWS If a business takes your money and uses it to pursue an agenda at odds with your core values, why support that endeavor with your hard-earned money? ...
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Federal Farmer Makes his Case for the Tenth Amendment
By: TJ Martinell Given the power various officers in the federal government would wield, the Federal Farmer believed that there needed to be a better mechanism to appoint them and remove ...
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Unpopular Truths Need to Be Told
Freedom needs fearless truth-tellers by Dan Sanchez “Tell the people what is honestly believed to be true. Disregard votes. Pay no attention to popularity. ‘To thine own self ...
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Supreme Court Considers Domestic Spying Too Secret to Be Challenged
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. The Supreme Court of the United States has declined to review a lower court’s dismissal of the Wikimedia Foundation’s lawsuit against a National Security Agency (NSA) ...
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Convention of States People Making Up History Again
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. The con-con people are at it again: making up history to suit their purpose, that purpose being to call a second Constitutional Convention. Here’s what was ...
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War and the Constitution
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before ...
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James Madison’s Last Day in Office: Veto of the “Bonus Bill”
By: Dave Benner As his last official act as President, James Madison vetoed a bill that would provide federal funding for building roads and canals throughout the United States. Today in ...
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What Thomas Jefferson Meant by ‘The Pursuit of Happiness’
William Blackstone’s "Commentaries on the Laws of England" offers important clues about what Thomas Jefferson meant with the phrase immortalized in the Declaration of Independence. by Barry Brownstein The ...
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Federal Farmer: Will the Judiciary Preserve or Destroy Liberty?
By: TJ Martinell While many anti-federalists, including Patrick Henry, regarded the judicial branch of the federal government under the proposed U.S. Constitution with deep suspicion, the Federal Farmer took a more ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Tacitus
By: Rob Natelson The authors discussed in this series impacted the Constitution both directly and indirectly. Citations to the authors by participants in the constitutional debates of 1787–1790 are evidence of ...
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