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They call it “just this once.” But that’s how it always begins. One unconstitutional act becomes a precedent – and suddenly, lawless power becomes routine. From Tacitus to Paine, Dickinson to Washington, history has screamed the warning: precedent is how tyranny becomes law. In this episode, we trace the oldest trick in the tyrant’s playbook – and why free people must resist it before it’s too late.

Path to Liberty: April 25, 2025

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James Otis, Jr – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part the Second (1792)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp act (1765)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

Thomas Gordon – Works of Sallust (1744)

Niccolo Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy (1531)

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