Path to Liberty

What does “liberty” truly mean? We explore 3 schools of thought, from Filmer’s “divine right” to Locke & the Founding Fathers’ individual rights. Plus, modern thinkers like Rothbard and more! Discover the historical roots of your freedom.

Path to Liberty: May 15, 2024

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Benjamin Franklin – Letter to David Hartley (4 Dec 1789)

Robert Filmer – Patriarcha: The Natural Power of Kings

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government

Thomas Paine – The American Crisis (23 Dec 1776)

John Locke: Two Treatises Chap IV, Of Slavery

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

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

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

James Madison – Property (27 Mar 1792)

Episode – Property Rights are the Foundation of all the Rest

Murray Rothbard – The Ethics of Liberty (pdf)

Cato’s Letters, No. 62 – Thomas Gordon (20 Jan 1722)

Josiah Warren – Equitable Commerce (1852)

Wiki: For a New Liberty

Ron Paul – Liberty Defined

Frederic Bastiat – The Law

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

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Do you ever wonder what the Constitution really means? This video will show you how to learn the Constitution the way the Founding Fathers told us to. We’ll explore a process called “originalism” to determine the original meaning of the Constitution’s clauses and phrases.

Path to Liberty: May 13, 2024

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Maharrey – Beyond the Text: Understanding the Constitution’s Original Meaning

The Constitution for the United States: A Transcription

Natelson – The ideas that formed the Constitution: Vattel and the Law of Nations

James Madison – Letter to Henry Lee (25 June 1824)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Johnson (12 June 1823)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Ritchie (15 Sept 1821)

Samuel Johnson – Dictionary of the English Language

Thomas Sheridan – A Complete Dictionary of the English Language

Nathan Bailey – An Universal Etymological English Dictionary

Elliot’s Debates

Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution

The Federalist

James Wilson – State House Yard Speech

John Dickinson – Fabius Letters

Episode – War and Foreign Policy: Top-5 Influences on the Founders

Episode – Jefferson’s Favorite Book on Government?

Abigail Adams – Letter to John Quincy Adams (20 Mar 1780)

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Gold and Silver, CBDC, Biometric Surveillance and 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy. We break down the bills and new laws & what they mean for YOU.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: May 10, 2024

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Roger Sherman (8 Dec 1787)

Episode – Constitution 101: Enforcement Mechanism

CBDC

Utah

Tennessee

Georgia

SOUND MONEY

Missouri

Louisiana

Alaska

Utah

FIREARMS FINANCIAL PRIVACY

Episode – Firearm Financial Privacy: Nullification Status Report

Tennessee

Iowa

Alabama

New Hampshire

Louisiana

SURVEILLANCE

Utah

New Hampshire

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

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

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They’re mostly ignored or forgotten today. But, to the founders, these five formed an international law and foreign policy pantheon.

Path to Liberty: May 8, 2024

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Natelson – The ideas that formed the Constitution: Vattel and the Law of Nations

Abigail Adams – Letter to John Quincy Adams (20 Mar 1780)

Report on Books for Congress (23 Jan 1783)

Hugo Grotius

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (11 Dec 1787)

Grotius – The Rights of War and Peace

John Jay – Charge to Grandy Jury, Richmond Virginia

Wiki: Samuel von Pufendorf – The Law of Nature and Nations

Joe Wolverton – Samuel von Pufendorf: A Lasting, Though Forgotten, Influence on Our Founding Fathers

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Pufendorf – The Law of Nature and Nations – full text

Natelson – Define and Punish Clause

Joe Wolverton – Forgotten Influences of the Founders

Burlamaqui – The Principles of Natural and Politic Law

Thomas Jefferson – First Inaugural (4 Mar 1801)

Thomas Paine – The American Crisis (23 Dec 1776)

Christian Wolff – The Law of Nations Treated According to the Scientific Method

Wiki – Emer de Vattel

Vattel – Life and Works

Emer de Vattel – The Law of Nations

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

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No deal. That’s pretty much how North Carolina patriots responded to British Major General Henry Clinton’s proclamation condemning what he called their “wicked rebellion” along with his offer of amnesty for everyone, but two, in exchange for giving up their arms, and more.

Path to Liberty: May 6, 2024

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SW O’Connell on X

Proclamation by Henry Clinton concerning loyalty to Great Britain (5 May 1776)

TJ Martinell – No Deal: When the British Offered Amnesty in Exchange for Gun Control

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

Maharrey – Fairfax Resolves Condemning British Constitutional Violations Adopted

Dave Kopel – The American Revolution against British Gun Control

Rev. William Tennent – Letter to the Editor (23 Aug 1774)

TJ Martinell – How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution

Dave Kopel – British Gun Control

Order of the King (19 Oct 1774)

Episode – It Was Gun Control: What Started the War for Independence

Letters concerning news of the Battle of Lexington in Massachusetts (20 Apr-09 May 1775)

Travis Copeland – North Carolina’s Response to Lexington and Concord

Stephen Halbrook – The Right To Bear Arms In The First State Bills Of Rights: Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Vermont, And Massachusetts

Gov. Josiah Martin – Letter to Earl of Dartmouth (18 May 1775)

Maharrey – The Wicked Rebellion: General Clinton’s Amnesty Offer and North Carolina’s Rejection

Circular letter from William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, and Richard Caswell to the inhabitants of North Carolina (19 June 1775)

Josiah Martin – “Fiery Proclamation”

Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge

Episode – First for Independence: The Halifax Resolves of 1776

Proclamation by Henry Clinton concerning loyalty to Great Britain (5 May 1776)

Episode – No Deal for Gun Control

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George Washington asked his attorney general to give his opinion on whether he felt Alexander Hamilton’s Bank Bill was constitutional. The answer was a resounding no.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: May 3, 2024

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Episode – James Madison: The Constitution vs the National Bank

Maharrey: Edmund Randolph vs the National Bank

Edmund Randolph – Letter to George Washington (12 Feb 1791)

Edmund Randolph – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Bank (12 Feb 1791)

Episode – Constitution 101: Necessary and Proper Clause

Episode: Thomas Jefferson – The Constitution vs the National Bank

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Tracing its roots back to John Locke, the Mayflower Compact – and even earlier – the “consent of the governed” was one of the most important principles in the Declaration of Independence, and was the foundation for the formation of the Constitution as well. But, as Lysander Spooner argued – the notion that “all the people” consent exists only in theory.

Path to Liberty: May 1, 2024

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Declaration of Independence

Wiki: Divine Right of Kings

Thomas Paine – Common Sense (1776)

Wiki: Duns Scotus

Declaration of Arbroath (1320)

Stewart McLaurin – The Scottish Declaration of Arbroath and the American Declaration of Independence

Maharrey: Sovereignty and Agency

Vindiciae contra tyrannos (1579)

John Milton – The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates (1650)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)

John Locke – Two Treatises, Chap IV §. 22

Natelson: The Mayflower Compact and “consent of the governed” are now 400 years old

Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776)

Tony Williams – Constituting America

Robert Higgs – Consent of the Governed?

Lysander Spooner – The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (1860)

Lysander Spooner – Forced Consent (1873)

Lysander Spooner – No Treason No. VI (1870)

Locke §. 116

Locke §. 118

Locke §. 119

Locke §. 120

Locke §. 121

Lysander Spooner – A Letter to Grover Cleveland (1886)

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

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In the American system, the people of the several states are sovereign, meaning they hold final or ultimate authority. Power flows from them to the federal government, which merely serves as their agent.

Path to Liberty: April 29, 2024

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Episode – The Law: An Intro from the Founders to Frederic Bastiat

Declaration of Independence

Maharrey: Sovereignty and Agency

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (24 Jul 1788)

Ratification of the Constitution by Virginia (26 June 1788)

Legal Information Institute – Agency Law

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

John Jay: An Address to the People of the State of New York (15 Apr 1788)

John Locke – Two Treatises §. 141

James Wilson – State House Yard Speech (6 Oct 1787)

James Madison – Federalist 39

James Madison – Report of 1800

Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788)

John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

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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)

Declaration of Independence

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

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

Episode – The Big Lie: Jefferson and War with the Barbary States

Episode – War Powers and George Washington

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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