Fight for Freedom: The Anthony Burns Affair
By: Mike Maharrey On May 24, 1854, federal marshals arrested Anthony Burns, kicking off one of the most famous fugitive slave – and nullification – cases in U.S. history. Burns ultimately ...
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Lessons from Birmingham Jail
by Richard Gunderman Just four months before Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, he ...
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The Militia vs. The Standing Army: Does the Distinction Matter?
By: TJ Martinell Within the debate over the meaning of the Second Amendment, a lot of attention gets paid to the phrase “well-regulated militia.” Most of the time, the focus is ...
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The Constitution, Congress and Government Debt
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano What would you do if you were driving a vehicle and came upon a traffic light that had both red and green lights on? Most rational folks ...
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REAL ID: 15 Years On and Still Not in Full Effect
By: Mike Maharrey On this date in 2008, the REAL ID Act was supposed to go into effect. It didn’t. And it still isn’t in full effect to this day. Last ...
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The FDIC: Another Dark Legacy of FDR
By: Jacob Hornberger In 1933, the Franklin Roosevelt Administration brought into existence the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Along with FDR’s nationalization of gold, his adoption of a paper-money system, his enactment ...
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The ideas that formed the Constitution: Vattel and the Law of Nations
By: Rob Natelson Within the Constitution’s text are meanings most purported constitutional experts never see. They fail to see those meanings because they don’t take the trouble to learn enough about ...
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Those Smearing SCOTUS Are The Biggest Threat To American ‘Democracy’
BY: DAVID HARSANYI Destroying trust in the court opens the floodgates for government abuse and destabilizes the nation in unprecedented ways. The other day, Chris Murphy was on MSNBC with ...
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Recovering Virtue Means Recovering Self-Government
by Tyler Syck Since the age of Jackson, conservatives have been skeptical of democracy. In their eyes, the democratization in the early nineteenth century disrupted the republican order of the ...
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Disarm the IRS, De-Militarize the Bureaucracy, and Dismantle the Standing Army
By: John Whitehead “There are instruments so dangerous to the rights of the nation and which place them so totally at the mercy of their governors that those governors, whether legislative ...
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