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Back to SearchWhy the Federalists Hated the Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights transformed the Constitution from one of supreme and total national power to a partially mixed polity where the liberal anti-natio…
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We Can Have Unity or We Can Have Freedom. We Can't Have Both.
While unity sounds like a nice thing to have, when it comes to politics and nation-states, experience repeatedly shows that unity is the tool of thos…
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Latest Federal Killing in Minnesota Echoes Ruby Ridge
The latest killing of a protester in Minneapolis by federal agents is reminiscent of the shooting of Vickie Weaver by a government sniper in 1992. In…
2 months ago
On the Failure of Constitutionalism Through the Ages: Norms, Emergencies, and the Administrative State
Constitutionalism gives us the expectation of governance according to rules that everyone from those that are governed to the ones that govern are ex…
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Reparations Are a Welfare Scheme and Would Have No Effect on Racial Wealth Gaps
For all of the demands for reparations for blacks, the schemes so far have been unworkable and would not address the real wealth gaps between black a…
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Trading with the Enemy: An American Tradition
Murray Rothbard recounts how during the French and Indian War (1754–63), Americans continued the great tradition of trading with the enemy.
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Israel and Its Relationship to the Islamic State
In the so-called world of strategic alliances, things often are not what they seem to be. It is that way with the Islamic State or ISIS, which suppos…
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Weak States, Not Limited States: Early Ming Governance and the Illusion of Proto-Liberalism
Although some scholars have labeled the early Ming Dynasty as a proto-liberal state, they are mistaken. The Ming governance at that time was weak, no…
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The British North American Colonies Were Not Homogeneous Political Units
The original 13 British colonies that made up the early United States had very different populations with decidedly different political and social ou…
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Bait-and-Switch: Victims of the LA Wildfires Find That Local Government Wants Them Gone
People who lost their homes last year in the LA wildfires are finding government roadblocks to rebuilding, due to systems put in place by progressive…
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