In his 1850 essay The Law, Bastiat railed against socialism, and argued that legitimate law isn’t just the will of politicians, but instead is based on protecting the natural rights of individuals. You can see inspiration in these views from Locke, Jefferson, Paine and more.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: April 26, 2024

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Thomas Paine – Common Sense (10 Jan 1776)

Constitution Full Text

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 83

John Jay – Address to the People of New York (1788)

James Madison – Letter to Henry Lee (1 Jan 1792)

Maryland Farmer No. 3, Part 1 (7 Mar 1788)

Samuel Adams – An address to the constituents of Massachusetts Bay Colony detailing the newly completed Massachusetts constitution (1780)

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

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Isaac H. Tiffany (4 Apr 1819)

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

John Locke – Two Treatises §. 141

John Locke – Two Treatises §. 201

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1698)

John Locke – Two Treatises §. 202

Paul Meany – An Introduction to Bastiat’s The Law

Bastiat – The Law

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Conventiuon (2 June 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Gideon Granger (13 Aug 1800)

James Madison – Speech in the House of Representatives (10 Jan 1794)

Thomas Paine – Common Sense (1776)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Francis W. Gilmer (7 June 1816)

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George Washington: “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” Thomas Jefferson: “Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.”

Path to Liberty: April 24, 2024

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George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

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George Washington – Letter to Alexander Hamilton (8 May 1796)

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Yusuf Qaramanli, Pasha and Bey of Tripoli (21 May 1801)

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James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (8 Feb 1825)

Thomas Jefferson – First Inaugural (4 Mar 1801)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Gideon Granger (13 Aug 1800)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Thomas Lomax (12 Mar 1799)

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From Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson to Lysander Spooner – the notion that the people should submit until they can replace enough politicians to stop the government from doing what the government was never authorized to do in the first place – is only a guarantee that they’ll never stop, and it’ll keep getting worse.

Path to Liberty: April 22, 2024

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Elizabeth Goitein – Brennan Center – on X

The Redheaded Libertarian on X

John Adams – Novanglus III (6 Feb 1775)

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Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (9 Dec 1771)

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

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 28

Thomas Jefferson’s Draft (Before 4 Oct 1798)

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

Lysander Spooner – No Treason VI (1870)

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Jefferson’s chilling warnings about unchecked fiat, paper money printing proved prophetic as the U.S. plunged into its first boom-bust economic crisis in the early 19th century.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: April 19, 2024

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Maharrey: Thomas Jefferson’s Warnings and Predictions about the Dangers of Money-Printing

A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States (1916)

Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Thomas Cooper (16 Jan 1814)

Murray Rothbard – The Panic of 1819

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to John Adams (21 Mar 1819)

John Adams – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 Feb 1819)

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With some of his best satire and sharpest wit, Franklin told the British the top-20 ways their policies would bring their empire over the American colonies to an end. Much of it sounds pretty familiar to what we face today.

Path to Liberty: April 17, 2024

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Benjamin Franklin – Letter to the Marquis De Lafayette (14 May 1781)

Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced To A Small One (11 Sept 1773)

America in Class: How Did We Get Here?

Proposal for the Great Seal of the United States (before 14 Aug 1776)

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86 years and a day before the “shot heard ’round the world” – the people of Boston and surrounding towns rose up and overthrew the royal governor in a dispute that started over tax resistance to arbitrary power.

Path to Liberty: April 15, 2024

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Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Historic Ipswich: The “Birthplace of American Independence”

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John G. Palfrey: The New-England Revolution of the 17th Century (May 1864)

Complaints of great wrongs done under the ill government of Sir Edmund Androsse governor in New-England, in the year 1687

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The declaration of the gentlemen, merchants, and inhabitants of Boston, and the countrey adjacent (18 Apr 1689)

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Lysander Spooner – No Treason No. VI (1870)

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April 12, 1776 – the first official action by one of the colonies in full support of declaring independence. The Halifax Resolves were also the first example of a colony-wide assembly admitting that reconciliation with the British was no longer an option.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: April 12, 2024

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North Carolina Provincial Congress

Third North Carolina Provincial Congress

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Halifax and the Revolution

The journal of the proceedings of the Provincial Congress of North Carolina, held at Halifax on the fourth day of April 1776

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Jason Mandresh – Founder of the Day

American Battlefield Trust – Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence

The Constitutional Authority of the 2nd Continental Congress

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Since 2011 – a combination of state laws and human action has built what is likely the most robust foundation for the advancement of gold and silver as money in the United Sates.

Path to Liberty: April 10, 2024

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Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Dumas (18 May 1779)

George Washington – Letter to Jabez Bowen (9 Jan 1787)

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Maharrey – Utah’s Step-By-Step Strategy in Support of Sound Money

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Rev. Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)

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2022 – Utah Law Exempts the Sale of “Goldbacks” from State Sales Tax

2024 – Utah Authorizes State Gold and Silver Reserves

2024 – Utah Excludes CBDC from State Definition of Legal Tender

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

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Supporting one version of an unconstitutional government program over another – because it seems to be the “least offensive” option – is not only what leading founders called a “fatal error,” but it also sets a precedent for more of the same, and worse.

Path to Liberty: April 8, 2024

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

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

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Raul Lopez – Knox News

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Albert Gallatin (6 June 1817)

James Madison – Letter to James Robertson, Jr. (20 Apr 1831)

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

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

James Madison – Speech in the House of Representatives (10 Jan 1794)

James Madison – Santo Domingan Refugees (10 Jan 1794)

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

Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (9 Dec 1771)

TAC Post on X

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Originally implemented by the IRS – gun-control advocates want to use “Merchant Category Codes” to track purchases of firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition. But the state-level 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act has shut those plans downs – at least for now.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: April 5, 2024

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CNBC Report

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Letter from Elizabeth Warren, Others

Free Range American

NPR Report on Firearms MCC

NRA-ILA – MCC Update

State of the Nullification Movement Report (2023)

Reuters – Amex, Mastercard, Visa pause work on new firearms merchant code

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