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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Social Media vs. Freedom
by James M. Patterson For the past few weeks, politically-engaged Twitter users have either lamented or praised Elon Musk for his new ownership of Twitter, a microblogging social media website that has ...
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What the American Founders Meant by Equality
By: Dan Sanchez The Declaration of Independence famously proclaimed that “all men are created equal.” Thanks in part to that prestigious endorsement, “equality” has become a widely held social ideal. But ...
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Bill of Rights: The Ignored History of Why it Exists
By: Michael Boldin Today is “Bill of Rights Day” – commemorating ratification on Dec. 15, 1791. But what the government-run schools – and supporters of the monster state – “teach” about ...
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