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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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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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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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Not a Gift from Government: Our Natural Rights Foundation

August 16, 2025 Founding Principles 0

By: Michael Boldin   Rights are not gifts from government. They don’t come from documents – not a constitution, not even a bill of rights. You have rights because you exist. ...

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Forgotten Foundation: The Story of Small Things Grow Great by Concord

By: Michael Boldin   How do you beat the biggest government in history? The founders did it, but they knew there’s no silver bullet. The path to liberty isn’t flashy. It’s ...

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John Taylor’s Forgotten Assault on Hamilton’s Economic Scheme

By: Michael Boldin   In 1794, John Taylor of Caroline published a devastating critique of Alexander Hamilton’s financial system: the national bank, paper money, and debt. Taylor saw these for what ...

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You Can’t Comply Your Way Out of Tyranny

By: Michael Boldin   “A little rebellion now and then is a good thing.” Jefferson didn’t just say it – he meant it, even when he opposed the cause. Because the ...

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Unraveling the “One Nation” Myth

By: Mike Maharrey   You’ve been lied to. America is not “one nation.” I know this feels shocking. You’ve proclaimed the United States of America is “one nation, under God, indivisible” ...

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