Politicians tell us that welfare programs are absolutely necessary – and helpful. But they ignore the fatal trap that Benjamin Franklin uncovered over 250 years ago: The more you subsidize something, the more you get – government welfare programs make things worse.

Path to Liberty: August 19, 2026

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Benjamin Franklin – On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor (1766)

Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 9 May 1753

Bastiat – What is Seen and What is Not Seen, or Political Economy in One Lesson (1850)

Benjamin Franklin – On the Laboring Poor (April 1768)

Henry Hazlitt – The Poor Laws of England (1971)

An Act for the Relief of the Poor (1601)

Richard Dunning – Bread for the Poor (1698)

Thomas Jefferson – to Joseph Milligan, Addition to Note for Destutt de Tracy’s Treatise on Political Economy (18 May 1816)

James Madison – On the Memorial of the Relief Committee of Baltimore, for the Relief of St. Domingo Refugees (10 Jan 1794)

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1913 was a really bad year. And one of the biggest changes came from the 17th Amendment. It didn’t just alter the way federal senators are chosen, it actually broke a process the framers built into the system: A constitutional KILL SWITCH to end the federal government. On this episode, it’s the “absolute safeguard” – the lost nuclear option for the states that the government-run schools never teach.

Path to Liberty: August 12, 2026

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William Davie – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (25 July 1788)

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Constitution – Article I, Section 3, Clause 1

Articles of Confederation – Article V

EPISODE – 17th Amendment Myth Busted: There was no Recall Power

Fisher Ames – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (19 Jan 1788)

John Dickinson – Fabius II (15 Apr 1788)

Tench Coxe – A Freeman II (30 Jan 1788)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Tench Coxe – An American Citizen II (28 Sept 1787)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

EPISODE – Repeal the 17th Amendment: Ignored Anti-Federalist Warnings on the Senate

Judge Increase Sumner – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (22 Jan 1788)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (27 Nov 1787)

17th Amendment (1913)

Tench Coxe – A Pennsylvanian IV (27 Feb 1788) p486

BOOK – The other federalist papers: Tench Coxe

Gov. Samuel Johnston – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (25 July 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 59 (22 Feb 1788)

Federal Farmer XII (12 Jan 1788)

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For the founders, an elective monarchy was just as bad as an hereditary one – because the core issue was the power of discretion. On this episode, it’s 6 of the most dangerous powers of a king as the founders understood them. And you just might recognize every single one of them today.

Path to Liberty: July 29, 2026

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John Locke – Two Treatises (1698)

William Blackstone – Commentaries on the Laws of England, Book 1, Chapter 7 (1765)

Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 36 (8 July 1721)

Thomas Paine – Dissertations on Government (18 Feb 1786)

Magna Carta (1215)

John Jay – Address to the People of Great Britain (21 Oct 1774)

David Hume – History of England vol 6 (1757)

English Bill of Rights (1689)

Constitution – Article I, Section 8, Clause 1

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. IX (1767)

Samuel Adams – Candidus (9 Dec 1771)

Constitution – Full Text

John Jay – Federalist No. 4 (7 Nov 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 69 (14 Mar 1788)

Pacificus I (29 June 1793)

EPISODE – This isn’t Defense. It’s the Constitution Betrayed.

James Madison – Helvidius IV (14 Sept 1793)

Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

James Madison – Helvidius I (24 Aug 1793)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 69 (14 Mar 1788)

John Jay – Federalist 64 (7 Mar 1788)

Montesquieu – Spirit of the Laws (1748)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 75 (26 Mar 1788)

The Anti-Federalists Were Right?

Brutus No. I (18 Oct 1787)

Declaration of Independence (4 July 1776)

George Mason – Objections to the Constitution (22 Oct 1787)

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The founders knew exactly what it takes to deal with unconstitutional power. How that gets done? It’s built on their experience and tactics against the British empire. On this Episode – it’s 6 steps that actually work as the real enforcement mechanism for the constitution. They come right from the American Revolution, backed by the ultimate check – the duty of self preservation

Path to Liberty: July 22, 2026

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Lafayette (2 Apr 1790)

George Washington – First Annual Address to Congress (8 Jan 1790)

Simeon Howard – A sermon preached to the Ancient and Honorable Artillery-Company, in Boston, New-England (7 June 1773)

Federal Farmer No. 18 (25 Jan 1788)

Josiah Quincy – Josiah Quincy – Observations on the Boston Port-Bill; with thoughts on civil society and standing armies (14 May 1774)

James Otis, Jr – Vindication of the Conduct of the House of Representatives of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay (1762)

Harry Lee – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

James Jackson (GA) – Speech in the House of Representatives (16 June 1789)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

Joseph Warren – Massacre Day Oration (6 Mar 1775)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33 (3 Jan 1788)

Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress, &c., (15 Dec 1774)

Alexander Hamilton – The Farmer Refuted (23 Feb 1775)

John Hancock – Letter to Barnards & Harrison (14 Oct 1765)

James Otis – The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved (1764)

John Steele – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (25 July 1788)

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Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress (19 Oct 1765)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Declaration and Resolves of the First Continental Congress (14 Oct 1774)

Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (Oct 1798)

James Madison – Federalist 46 (29 Jan 1788)

Roger Sherman (8 Dec 1787)

Colonial Nullification: A Maryland County Court’s Repudiation of the Stamp Act

The Stamp Act Crisis in North Carolina

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (17 Nov 1798)

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Episode – Blueprint for Liberty: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774

Suffolk Resolves (9 Sept 1774)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (20 Nov 1772)

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

Luther Martin – Genuine Information (28 Dec 1787)

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The founders knew – freedom cannot exist with a government – that doesn’t have strict rules, a clear line in the sand that it’s not allowed to cross. In other words, when government determines the extent of its own power. On this episode, how lessons learned in the American Revolution gave birth to the written constitution. And more importantly, the real reasons it exists – that the government-run schools completely ignore.

Path to Liberty: July 15, 2026

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

Thomas Paine – Dissertations on Government (1786)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VII (1767)

Samuel Adams, James Otis Jr. – Massachusetts Circular Letter (11 Feb 1768)

Maharrey – The American Revolution Was a Constitutional Crisis

Declaratory Act (18 Mar 1766)

Thomas Jefferson – Summary View of the Rights of British American (1774)

Alexander Hamilton – A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress (15 Dec 1774)

James Madison – Report of 1800 (7 Jan 1800)

John Dickinson – Fabius IV (19 Apr 1788)

James Madison – Federalist 48 (1 Feb 1788)

Thomas Paine – The Rights of Man, Part the First (1791)

John Jay – An Address to the People of the State of New York (12 Apr 1788)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

Articles of Confederation

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

James Otis, Jr. – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)

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The top tools of tyrants aimed right at your liberty. Washington, Webster, Paine, Madison, and more – they saw every one of them coming and warned us. On this Episode – what they use against us and what’s self-inflicted.

Path to Liberty: June 24, 2026

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

Noah Webster – An Examination Into the Leading Principles of America (17 OCT 1787)

Thomas Paine – Dissertations on Government (18 Feb 1786)

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

Patrick Henry – Speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention (7 June 1788)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Elbridge Gerry (22 Aug 1789)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Joseph C. Cabell (2 Feb 1816)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part the First (1791)

John Dickinson – Fabius VII (26 Apr 1788)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791)

John Adams – Novanglus III (6 Feb 1775)

Thomas Gordon – Works of Sallust (1744)

Noah Webster – The Revolution in France (1794)

John Adams – Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 Oct 1780)

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Declaration of Independence: That long list of charges against the king aren’t mere “grievances.” That word isn’t even in the text. They Founders didn’t secede and fight a long, bloody war over mere complaints about bad policy. American Independence was built on something else spelled out in the text itself, and understood by everyone at the time. On this Episode – It’s the foundation of the declaration that we’re never taught. As Ethan Allen put it, the “primary cause of the separation and revolt”

Path to Liberty: June 17, 2026

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John Locke – Two Treatises, Book II (1689)

Samuel Johnson – Dictionary of the English Language (1773)

Declaration of Independence

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Henry Lee (8 May 1825)

Alexander Hamilton – The Farmer Refuted (23 Feb 1775)

Declaratory Act (18 Mar 1766)

John Hancock – Massacre Day Oration (5 Mar 1774)

Josiah Quincy – Observations on the Boston Port-Bill; with thoughts on civil society and standing armies (14 May 1774)

Thomas Paine – The Crisis I (23 Dec 1776)

The Life and Services of Gov. Samuel Ward

Thomas Jefferson – A Summary View of the Rights of British America (1774)

Ethan Allen – A vindication of the opposition of the inhabitants of Vermont to the government of New-York (23 Aug 1779)

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“For transporting us beyond seas, to be tried for pretended offences.” From the Declaration of Independence, one of the charges against the King that justified secession. It was built on a violent American raid on the British few of us are ever taught about. In the early hours of June 10, 1772, a band of Rhode Islanders rowed out in the dark, shot and seriously wounded a Royal Navy commander, captured the crew and burned his ship to the waterline. The Crown moved to drag them 3000 miles across the ocean to hang. On this Episode – The Crown called it treason. The Patriots called it self-defense

Path to Liberty: June 10, 2026

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Americanus – Essay in the Newport Mercury (21 Dec 1772)

Massachusetts Spy (31 Dec 1772)

Lord Dartmouth – Letter to the Gov. Joseph Wanton of Rhode Island (4 Sept 1772)

Americana Corner – The Early Life of Nathanael Greene

The Papers of General Nathanael Greene – Letter to Samuel Ward (April 1772)

Gov. Wanton – Letter to Lt. Dudingston (22 Mar 1772)

Admiral Montagu – Letter to Gov. Wanton (8 Apr 1772)

The Chase (9 June 1772)

Gaspee Virtual Archives

Steven Park – On the Burning of His Majesty’s Schooner Gaspee in 1772

Gaspee – The invitation to join in the attack is announced

Sabin’s Tavern – Providence

New England Historical Society – The Gaspee Affair Part I

Gaspee – The attack on the Gaspee

New England Historical Society – The Gaspee Affair Part II

Burning of the Gaspee Image

Proclamation by Gov Wanton (12 June 1772)

Gaspee – Commodore Abraham Whipple

Proclamation by the King (26 Aug 1772)

John Allen – An Oration Upon the Beauties of Liberty (3 Dec 1772)

Declaration of Independence

REVOLUTION BETRAYED – America Rebuilt the System the Founders Fought a War to Secede From

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Tyrants exploit the ignorance and corruption of the people. Samuel Adams warned us, but don’t just blame the tyrants. He said we should blame the people who make them possible by giving us a self-inflicted tyranny. On this Episode: Liberty isn’t taken. With a one-two punch, it’s surrendered.

Path to Liberty: June 3, 2026

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Benjamin Rush – Letter to William Gordon (10 Dec 1778)

Samuel Adams – Valerius Poplicola (5 Oct 1772)

Benjamin Rush – Essays, literary, moral & philosophical (1786)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part the First (1791)

Montesquieu – The Spirit of Laws (1758)

John Locke – An Essay concerning Human Understanding Part 2 (1689)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania VI (1767)

Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey (6 Jan 1816)

Benjamin Franklin – Poor Richard Improved (1755)

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

Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19 (1785)

Benjamin Franklin – Letter to the Abbés Chalet And Arnaud (17 Apr 1787)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (20 June 1788)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania XI (1767)

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

Declaration of Independence

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (17 Sept 1787)

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Written almost 300 years ago, it was so prophetic, it sounds like it was written today. A warning about the dangerous cult that promises to protect your country – but is really killing it. On this episode, it’s the true enemy within, destroying freedom.

Path to Liberty: May 20, 2026

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Thomas Gordon – The Works of Sallust (1744)

Thomas Gordon – Biography

Works of Sallust – HathiTrust Edition

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