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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Claiming Almost Everything is “Commerce”
By: Rob Natelson How can Congress get around the Tenth Amendment and regulate almost every aspect of American life? One way is by claiming that the Tenth Amendment doesn’t apply ...
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The 10th Amendment: The Foundation of the Constitution
by Michael Boldin AT A GLANCE • The government’s role is to protect natural rights, not to rule over citizens. Ultimate earthly authority rests with the people. • 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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Five Constitutional Truths They Don’t Want You to Know
By: Michael Boldin “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.” Thomas Jefferson nailed it. And here’s the deal – ...
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Corruption: The Founders Warned Us About Ourselves
By: Michael Boldin “This can only end in despotism.” Benjamin Franklin didn’t offer that as a theory. It was a sentence – and prophetic. He knew exactly what happens when ...
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Supreme Court Stands By While Lower Courts Carry On Ripping Up The Constitution
By: Jordan Boyd Until the Supreme Court acts, an unconstitutional supremacy will continue to infect even the furthest limbs of the judicial branch. There is a judicial coup underway in ...
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Taxing Power: Luther Martin’s Anti-Federalist Warnings
By: Michael Boldin Luther Martin believed the Constitution’s sweeping taxation power was one of its most dangerous features, a direct threat to both state sovereignty and individual liberty. Long before ...
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General Welfare Clause: The Truth They Never Teach
By: Michael Boldin “It would be ABSURD to say … Congress may do what they please.” That was James Madison, obliterating the modern lie that the general Welfare Clause is ...
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