The Founders Predicted our Economic Crisis
By: Michael Boldin Did Thomas Jefferson call the economic crisis? “Every thing predicted by the enemies of banks, in the beginning, is now coming to pass. we are to be ruined ...
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Patrick Henry Demands a Bill of Rights
By: TJ Martinell On June 7, 1788, Patrick Henry delivered one of many long speeches at the Virginia Ratifying Convention, demanding the inclusion of a Bill of Rights in the proposed U.S. Constitution ...
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Patrick Henry: Give me Liberty or Give me Death!
By: Michael Boldin On March 23, 1775 – less than a month before Lexington and Concord and the “shot heard round the world,” Patrick Henry offered a set of resolutions before ...
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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part VII: Concentration Camps and the End
By: Rob Natelson This is the last installment in a series on the nadir, or low point, of the U.S. Supreme Court. This was the period from 1937 to 1944, when ...
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George Washington’s First Final Farewell
By: Joe Wolverton, II A generation after George Washington’s Christmastime farewell to his troops and to the Congress who commissioned him in 1775, Clement Clarke Moore penned the iconic poem he ...
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Nullify! They Don’t Want us Doing This. We’re Doing it Anyway
By: Michael Boldin Following the wisdom and advice of the Founders and Old Revolutionaries, we recognize that the federal government is one of limited, delegated powers. When it exceeds those limits, ...
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Thomas Paine, Passionate Pamphleteer for Liberty
By: Tenth Amendment As nobody before, Thomas Paine stirred ordinary people to defend their liberty. He wrote the three top-selling literary works of the eighteenth century, which inspired the American Revolution, ...
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Embracing what the Founders Sought to Destroy
By: Michael Boldin The Founding generation fought a long, bloody war to free themselves from an empire – the largest government in history at the time. Today, they’re probably rolling in ...
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5 Founders on the Freedom of Speech
By: Michael Boldin Franklin, Henry, Paine, Washington and Jefferson – views on the freedom of speech and press over nearly 70 years. An essential, natural right.
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The Historical Use of “Red Flag” Laws
By: Rob Natelson Under pressure to “do something” about mass killings, some Republican politicians have followed their Democrat counterparts by endorsing red flag laws. These laws authorize confiscation of firearms ...
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