Vergil: Poet Laureate of the American Founding
By: Rob Natelson The reverse side of the dollar bill reproduces the Great Seal of the United States. On the left is the back of the seal. It features two ...
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The Partisan Road to Tyranny: George Washington’s Fatal Prediction
By: Michael Boldin “A frightful despotism.” George Washington knew what was coming. His Farewell Address, published on September 19, 1796 in the American Daily Advertiser, wasn’t just a retirement notice. It was ...
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American Cincinnatus: A Victorious General Refuses a Crown
By: Joe Wolverton, II On December 4, 1783, at Fraunces Tavern, the popular public house located at the corner of Pearl and Broad Streets in Manhattan, General George Washington delivered ...
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The Republic was not Kept: Benjamin Franklin’s Constitution Day Prediction
By: Michael Boldin “A republic … if you can keep it” September 17, 1787 – the day the constitution was signed. We all know Benjamin Franklin’s famous line. But he ...
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The Great Bypass: How the Constitution Was Built to Sideline the States
By: Michael Boldin “This Constitution does not attempt to coerce sovereign bodies, states, in their political capacity.” With that one sentence, future Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth identified the single most ...
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How Tyranny Becomes Entrenched: 9/11 and the Police State’s Endless Power Grabs
By: John Whitehead They said it was for safety. They said it was for order. They said it was for the good of the nation. They always say it’s for ...
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The States and the Presidency
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano “It is (my) intention to … demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the Federal Government and those reserved to the States or ...
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No Obedience is Due: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774
By: Michael Boldin “No obedience is due from this province to either or any part of the acts above-mentioned, but that they be rejected as the attempts of a wicked administration ...
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Thomas Paine’s Forgotten Paper Money Takedown
By: Michael Boldin “Money is Money, and Paper is Paper. All the invention of man cannot make them otherwise.” With those words, Thomas Paine went after what he saw as ...
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Welfare by Any Other Name Is Still Welfare
By: Laurence M. Vance In William Shakespeare’s tragic romance “Romeo and Juliet,” about two young Italian lovers from feuding families in Verona, Juliet utters the famous line: “What’s in a ...
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