Informing the Founders: A Short History of Standing Armies in England
By: TJ Martinell The founding generation harbored a deep distrust of standing armies. This flowed not only from their first-hand experience with the British, but also from arguments against permanent military ...
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John Adams: Patriot and Tyrant?
By: Mike Maharrey Many revere John Adams as a great patriot. Others view him as a big-government tyrant. The truth probably lies somewhere in between. Adams was a prominent leader during ...
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The Foundation: Essential Principles for Liberty
By: Michael Boldin Corruption and repression, weighted down by a massive bureaucracy – it’s all around us and getting worse year by year. But an alternative to total tyranny – while ...
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State of the Nullification Movement Report
Get it here (right-click to download) – or scroll down for the full report via Scribd .pdf format (right-click to download and save) How to upload to your Kindle device or app click ...
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Cato’s Letters Explained “the Glorious Principles of Liberty” to the American Founders
by Dan Sanchez In the twilight of his life, John Adams reflected on the American Revolution in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, writing: “What do We mean by the Revolution? ...
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Advancing Liberty: 4 Essential, Foundational Principles
By: Michael Boldin The “American revolution” was about much more than the war for Independence. In fact, as John Adams noted, the revolution was “effected before the war commenced.” A “radical ...
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Resistance is Crucial to the Advancement of Liberty
By: Mike Maharrey Patrick Henry told us that “government is no more than a choice among evils.” Thomas Paine held the same view. In Common Sense, he wrote, “Society in every state ...
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Of the Natural Rights of Individuals
By: TJ Martinell Do people exist for the sake of government? Or is it the other way around? That’s the question James Wilson attempts to answer in his 1790 work, “Of the ...
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The Values in the Constitution
The Declaration of Independence expressed a common American creed: All are born equal before God and the law, God bestows humans with natural rights, some of these rights are unalienable ...
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Natural Rights and Liberty
By: Michael Boldin Natural Rights and Liberty With the TAC’s 15 year anniversary coming this week, I thought it was a good time to share with you our driving principle –Natural ...
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