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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Critical Race Theory And Gender Ideology Are Ubiquitous In US Schools, New Study Shows
A Manhattan Institute study confirms that K-12 schools are effectively indoctrinating students into radical — revolutionary, even — political ideologies. by Jack Elbaum Last month, the Manhattan Institute released a ...
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Why Censorship Should Chill You to the Bone
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?
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)
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
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
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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