FDR’s Other ‘Day of Infamy’: When the US Government Seized All Citizens’ Gold
by Lawrence W. Reed Ninety years ago, Franklin Roosevelt told Americans they had less than a month to hand over their gold or face up to ten years in prison. ...
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The Lesson of Newburgh
by Miles Smith IV Two hundred and forty years ago this week, a group of officers of the Continental Army gathered in Newburgh, New York. The officers—relatively youthful men, many ...
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War and the Constitution
By: Judge Andrew Napolitano Can the president fight any war he wishes? Can Congress fund any war it chooses? Are there constitutional and legal requirements that must first be met before ...
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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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Aiming at Ordered Liberty
By Jeffrey Bristol The telos, or final cause of the American regime, according to the prophets of the Common Good, descends like a vision from God, telling us precisely how our ...
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The Ideas That Formed the Constitution, Part 7: Cicero
By: Rob Natelson The first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth essays in this series addressed the influence on the Constitution of four leading Greek thinkers. There is one more Greek on our list, the biographer Plutarch. He ...
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Liberty Needs a Self-Study Movement
We each must first put our own house of ideas in order by Dan Sanchez The liberty movement is not prevailing because it has primarily been a political movement. To ...
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BBFL Christmas Message-2022
When writing a Christmas message your first thought is to talk about the Christmas star, the nativity, the birth of Christ or just about love. All of these things are ...
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Liberty, Power, Precedent and the People
By: Michael Boldin While most people have never heard his name today, Founding Father John Dickinson was famous at the time of the Revolution. In 1767, he authored the 12 “Letters ...
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The Three Clauses the Federal Government Abuses to Evade the Enumerated Powers Limitation
by Joanna Martin aka Publius Huldah The “taxing and general welfare” clause: I, §8, cl. 1: Congress has Power to lay Taxes, pay debts, and provide for the common Defense ...
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