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Just 9 years after Thomas Jefferson called for nullification of the Alien and Sedition Acts – states and individuals took the same kind of strategy against his Embargo Act – signed by Pres. Jefferson in late 1807 – and a series of follow up acts to beef up enforcement of it.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: October 13, 2023

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Dave Benner: Embargo Act Signed as Law

Wiki: Embargo Act of 1807

Political Cartoon OGRABME – Embargo Backwards

Albert Gallatin to Thomas Jefferson (18 Dec 1807)

Wiki: First Supplementary Act

H.A. Scott Trask – Mises – Jefferson’s Disastrous Embargo

Resolutions in Massachusetts

An American to Thomas Jefferson (26 Jan 1808)

Albert Gallatin to Thomas Jefferson (29 Feb 1808)

Albert Gallatin to Thomas Jefferson (12 Mar 1808)

LOC – 2nd Enforcement Act

Connecticut – Herman Ames: State Documents on Federal Relations (1911)

William Jarvis to James Madison (20 Aug 1807)

John Adams – Letter to Benjamin Rush (25 Feb 1808)

John Adams – Letter to William Steuben Smith (15 Apr 1808)

United States v. The William (1808)

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Few areas from the Founders – if any – have been more widely rejected and misunderstood than their views and advice on foreign policy. Grasping their approach means understanding where it comes from as well.

Path to Liberty: October 11, 2023

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John Jay – Letter to Gouverneur Morris (24 Sept 1783)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part I (1791)

John Jay – Federalist 4 (4 Nov 1787)

James Monroe – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Thomas Paine – The American Crisis (23 Dec 1776)

Oliver Ellsworth – Philadelphia Convention (17 Aug 1787)

George Mason – Philadelphia Convention (17 Aug 1787)

John Jay, Speech at the opening of the Circuit Court at Richmond (22 May 1793)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (11 Dec 1787)

James Madison – Helvidius IV (14 Sept 1793)

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

Vattel – The Law of Nations

Thomas Jefferson – First Inaugural (4 Mar 1801)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 Apr 1798)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

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For many of the founders, property rights were the foundation of all the others. James Madison took things even further, arguing that people not only have a right to property, but also a property in their rights – tying property rights, self ownership and all natural rights together.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: October 6, 2023

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Arthur Lee – An appeal to the justice and interests of the people of Great Britain, in the present dispute with America (1775)

John Adams – Discourses on Davila (1790-91)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 12 (1767)

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

James Madison – Property (29 Mar 1792)

Tony Williams – Constituting America

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One of the worst years ever, 1913 gave us the tools that support the largest government in history

Path to Liberty: October 4, 2023

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Wiki: 16th Amendment

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Thomas Jefferson – First Inaugural (4 Mar 1801)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (2 June 1787)

Cato VI (13 Dec 1787)

Wiki: Taft’s Last Day in Office

About Commerce

Laurence Vance – The Constitution versus the Executive-Branch Departments

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Albert Gallatin (13 Oct 1802)

Dept of Labor Org Chart

Wiki: Living Constitution

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

Will Morrisey: The “Living” Constitution

17th Amendment

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (6 June 1788)

Revenue Act of 1913

Dave Benner: Woodrow Wilson Signs the Federal Reserve Act

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A permanent or baneful aristocracy – despite federalist assurances to the contrary – with senators mostly serving for life – that’s what many anti-federalists warned we’d get with the structure of the federal Senate.

Path to Liberty: October 2, 2023

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Federalist 62

Fisher Ames – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (15 Jan 1788)

Robert Livingston – New York Ratifying Convention (24 June 1788)

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

Melancton Smith – New York Ratifying Convention (25 June 1788)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (13 June 1788)

Articles of Confederation – Article V

John Lansing – New York Ratifying Convention (24 June 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (12 June 1788)

Luther Martin – Genuine Information IV (8 Jan 1788)

CSAC: The Debate over the Senate

Centinel II (24 Oct 1787)

Montesquieu – Spirit of the Laws (1748)

Federalist 63 – Hamilton or Madison

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

Cincinnatus IV (22 Nov 1787)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (4 Dec 1787)

John Adams – Letter to Cotton Tufts (23 Jan 1788)

James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (6 June 1788)

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They certainly didn’t get everything right, but when they did, they almost seemed prophetic. Consolidation, executive power, factions and the ultimate end of despotism.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: September 29, 2023

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William Grayson – Virginia Ratifying Convention (18 June 1788)

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (17 Sept 1787)

A Republic. But They Didn’t Keep it.

James Madison – Federalist 48 (1 Feb 1788)

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Patrick Henry (14 Sept 1789)

Brutus No. 1

Centinel No. 5 (4 Dec 1787)

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

Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (4 June 1787)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

William Grayson – Virginia Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788)

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

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Henry Lee to James Madison (3 Apr 1790)

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In the years leading up to the War for Independence, the revolutionaries took an increasingly hostile stance against people who collaborated with or helped the British. And no, it wasn’t just tarring and feathering.

Path to Liberty: September 27, 2023

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American Battlefield Trust – Tarring and Feathering

JL Bell – 5 Myths of Tarring and Feathering

History.com – Boston Port Act

Our American Revolution

Samuel Adams – Letter to John Dickinson (21 Apr 1774)

Circular Letter of the Boston Committee of Correspondence (13 May 1774)

Wiki – Aftermath of the Act

Samuel Adams – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (15 July 1774)

Wiki – First Continental Congress

Mike Maharrey: Suffolk Resolves Calling for Non-Compliance and Resistance to British Acts

Episode – Blueprint for Liberty: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774

Samuel Adams – Letter to Charles Chauncy (19 Sept 1774)

Samuel Adams – Letter to Joseph Warren (25 Sept 1774)

Mike Maharrey – Boston Resolution Against Helping Redcoats Passed

Meeting of the Committees of Boston and the neighbouring Towns (27 Sept 1774)

Solemn League and Covenant (4 July 1774)

Continental Association (20 Oct 1774)

Wiki – Continental Association: Enforcement

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We hear them over, and over, and over again – the same, tired, worn out myths or downright lies about nullification.

Path to Liberty: September 25, 2023

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James Madison – Notes on Nullification (1834)

Thomas Jefferson – Fair Copy, Kentucky Resolutions (before 4 Oct 1798)

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

Episode – Patrick Henry vs the Stamp Act

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33

Episode – Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: One of the Worst Ever

Episode – Did James Madison Reject Nullification?

Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (17 Nov 1798)

James Madison: Four Steps to Stop Federal Programs

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (1788)

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

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In a series of speeches during the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry laid out much of the anti-federalist case against ratification without amendments. The foundation underlying all his arguments was a consistent warning against consolidation – or centralized power – and trusting people with that power.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: September 22, 2023

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Episode – We the People or We the States: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speech No. 1

Speech of June 4, 1788

Speech of June 5, 1788

Speech of June 9, 1788

Speech of June 14, 1788

Speech of June 7, 1788

Episode – Treaties, Trials and Supremacy: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speeches 8-10

Episode – Implied vs Expressly Reserved: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speeches 5-7

Patrick Henry – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (28 Aug 1789)

Virginia and the Ratification of the Bill of Rights

Henry Lee to James Madison (3 Apr 1790)

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The federal reserve isn’t going to end itself. And congress isn’t going to cut off the engine that drives the biggest, most powerful government in the history of the world. It’s up to the states and the people to nullify it into oblivion – where it belongs.

Path to Liberty: September 20, 2023

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Episode – The Central Bank vs the Constitution

Book: The National Bank vs the Constitution

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

Maharrey: How the National Bank Destroyed the Limits of the Constitution

Maharrey: How the Fed Wrecks the Economy

Maharrey – Central Bank Digital Currency: Paper Money isn’t the Solution

Goldback.com

United Precious Metals Association (UPMA)

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