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Why Censorship Should Chill You to the Bone

March 3, 2023 Politics 0

by Lawrence W. Reed When private entities conspire with government to silence opinion, we get the worst of two worlds: the brute force of the state combined with the technology ...

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The Cost of the Nation’s Endless Wars

By: John Whitehead Oh, the hypocrisy. To hear President Biden talk about the Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, you might imagine that Putin is the only dictator bent on expanding his military empire ...

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Federal Farmer: Is There a “Right Person” for Office?

March 3, 2023 Elections / Federal Farmer 0

By: TJ Martinell The Federal Farmer believed it was important to get the right people in office, yet he warned that a lack of more stringent requirements for officeholders would have ...

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Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)

March 3, 2023 4th Amendment / ALPR 0

A Civil Liberties Briefing   ALPR technology is used by law enforcement agencies across the state. It consists of high-speed cameras mounted on vehicles or stationary objects (such as telephone ...

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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AUTOMATIC LICENSE PLATE READERS

March 3, 2023 4th Amendment 0

Automatic license plate reader technology is unregulated in Massachusetts (and in Ohio)—and it implicates civil liberties. What is an automatic license plate reader?  Automatic license plate readers (“ALPR”) enable private ...

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The Convention’s Story on Canvas

February 19, 2023 Uncategorized 0

by Daniel Dreisbach On September 17, 1787, 39 delegates to the Constitutional Convention meeting in Philadelphia’s Independence Hall stepped forward to put their signatures to a document they had framed ...

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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Virgil alone

February 19, 2023 Founding Principles 0

By: Rob Natelson The previous (ninth) essay in this series identified three Roman poets quoted by participants in the constitutional debates of 1787–1790—Ovid, Horace, and Virgil. The essay explained why Virgil ...

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Who are a Free People?

February 19, 2023 Founding Principles 0

By: Michael Boldin WHO ARE A FREE PEOPLE? It’s a question that’s rarely asked – or explored. But John Dickinson, the “Penman of the Revolution,” thought it was incredibly important. He ...

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Federal Farmer: Politicians and Bureaucrats must be “Recallable”

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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