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Sept 18, 1850 – Pres. Millard Fillmore signed the 2nd Federal Fugitive Slave Act into law. An attempt to implement the Fugitive Slave Clause of the Constitution, the act, at best, had serious constitutional issues. In response, as had been done under the previous act, states passed Personal Liberty Laws which nullified the federal act in practice and effect.

Path to Liberty: September 18, 2023

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Compromise of 1850

Today in History: Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 Signed into Law

Wiki: Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Fugitive Slave Clause – Constitution, Article IV, Sec. 2, Cl 3

Constitution Center Tells the Same False Story

The Constitutional Convention: The Fugitive Slave Clause

Constitution: Article IV, Section 2

Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

James Madison – Federalist 46 (29 Jan 1788)

The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine: An Introduction

Prigg v Pennsylvania

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855)

William Lloyd Garrison – Editorial in the Liberator (1 Nov 1850)

Walt Whitman’s Caution

South Carolina Secession: the Truth

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Despite writing on the Constitution for decades – few people today seem to even know the name Lysander Spooner. And most who do, rarely know more than one quote. Time to turn that around.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: September 15, 2023

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Constitutional Law, Relative to Credit, Currency and Banking (1843)

A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

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

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)

The Unconstitutionality of the Legal Tender Acts of Congress (1864)

Richard Henry Lee – via Melancton Smith’s notes of the Confederation Congress (27 Sept 1787)

Address of the Free Constitutionalists to the People of the United States (1860)

Thomas Jefferson to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sept 1820)

An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1862)

Thomas Jefferson’s Fair Copy – Kentucky Resolutions of 1798

A Letter to Grover Cleveland (1886)

James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Nov 1787)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788)

Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)

The Anti-Commandeering Doctrine: An Introduction

A letter to Thomas Bayard (1882)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (5 Feb 1788)

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All the founders agreed that standing armies were a great threat to liberty. The only debate was really the best way to prevent those dangers. But they didn’t come up with this view on their own – it was part of a very long tradition that was opposed to large, permanent military establishments.

Path to Liberty: September 13, 2023

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John Trenchard – A short History of Standing Armies in England (1698)

English Bill of Rights (1689)

Using Tyranny to Prevent Tyranny: A Warning on Standing Armies

The Debate over Standing Armies and Militias in Early America

A Democratic Federalist (17 Oct 1787)

George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)

James Madison – Philadelphia Convention (23 Aug 1787)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 8 (20 Nov 1787)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

Declaration of Independence

Gen. George Washington Bids Farewell to the Fabled Continental Army

George Washington – Sentiments on a Peace Establishment (1 May 1783)

Henry Knox – Plan for the General Arrangement of the Militia of the United Stats (18 Jan 1790)

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Forgotten long ago: Essential principles underlying the Constitution and liberty – right from the Founders. It’s time to turn that around.

Path to Liberty: September 11, 2023

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Benjamin Franklin – Reply to the Governor (11 Nov 1755)

John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 9 (1767)

James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)

John Taylor of Caroline – Tyranny Unmasked (1822)

George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)

Brutus No. VIII (10 Jan 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – letter to Destutt de Tracy of (26 Dec 1820)

James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)

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

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1698)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788)

John Dickinson – Fabius IV (19 Apr 1788)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part II

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Despite the fact that it proved to be mostly a false alarm, the “Powder Alarm” of 1774 showed the colonists that the British were serious – and willing to use gun control efforts to keep them in their place.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: September 1, 2023

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Maharrey – British Seizure of Gunpowder Leads to “Powder Alarm”

American History Central – The Powder Alarm of Massachusetts

David Kopel – How the British Gun Control Program Precipitated the American Revolution

Wiki – Powder Alarm

Wiki – William Brattle

John Andrews Letter (1 Sept 1774)

JL Bell – Powder Alarm

JL Bell – Exaggerated Accounts

John Adams Diary (6 Sept 1774)

JL Bell – Israel Putnam and an express from Boston

JL Bell – Forcing Resignations

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

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Many people hold the false and dangerous view that the federal court system is not only the final say on the meaning of the Constitution – but take it even further – the courts represent the “last bulwark against tyranny.”

Path to Liberty: August 30, 2023

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sep 1820)

James Madison – Report of 1800 (7 Jan 1800)

James Madison – Virginia Resolutions (21 Dec 1798)

George Mason – Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company (Apr 1775)

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John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 Jul 1788)

Roger Sherman (8 Dec 1787)

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions Fair Copy (1798)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

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Ignorance of liberty, of the constitution, of the powers delegated to the government – and so much more – are just what tyrants absolutely love. And we’re literally surrounded by people who are willfully ignorant of it all.

Path to Liberty: August 28, 2023

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Charles Yancey (6 Jan 1816)

James Wilson – Oration of July 4, 1788

Samuel Adams – Essay as Valerius Poplicola – Boston Gazette (5 Oct 1772)

Benjamin Rush – Education Agreeable to a Republican Form of Government (1786)

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Benjamin Franklin – Poor Richard Improved (1755)

Constitution – Article V

Constitution – Article VI

Episode – Federal law is not “Always Supreme”

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

James Madison – Federalist 48

John Dickinson – Fabius IV (19 Apr 1788)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Episode – Top-4 Myths About Nullification

Episode – 4 Totally Ignored Principles of the American Revolution

Rev. Samuel Stillman – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)

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To many people today, liberty is little more than choosing new people to rule over them every few years. And even in the founding generation, there was a wide range of viewpoints on just what constitutes a state of liberty.

Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: August 25, 2023

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Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (5 June 1788)

Joseph Warren – Letter to Samuel Adams (15 June 1774)

John Dickinson – Letters to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies No. IV (15 June 1774)

Mercy Otis Warren – Preface to History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution

Montesquieu – Spirit of the Laws vol 1 (1748)

Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1698)

James Lincoln – Speech in the South Carolina House (18 Jan 1788)

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

Fisher Ames – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (15 Jan 1788)

John Adams – Letter to John Taylor (15 April 1814)

Federal Farmer No. VI

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

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A culture of obedience and compliance guarantees that government will never stop growing – and defiance and nullification represent the “rightful remedy” to usurpations of power. But today, many people live in fear – and never take the steps needed to help advance liberty.

Path to Liberty: August 23, 2023

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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Thomas Paine (11 July 1789)

Theophilus Parsons – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (1788)

Samuel Adams – The Rights of the Colonists (5 Nov 1772)

Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves (1765)

James Madison – On Nullification (Dec 1834)

Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33

Samuel Adams – Candidus in the Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)

James Madison – Virginia Resolutions (21 Dec 1798)

John Dickinson – Fabius IV (19 Apr 1788)

James Madison – Federalist 46

Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions Fair Copy (1798)

James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (1788)

John Adams – Thoughts on Government (1776)

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part II (1792)

John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp Act (1765)

Lysander Spooner – A Defence for Fugitive Slaves (1850)

James Otis, Jr. – (11 Jan 1762)

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

Walt Whitman’s Caution

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Even when states end civil asset forfeiture, a federal program called “equitable sharing” encourages them to participate in a federal version anyway. But the states can opt-out and nullify the federal program into oblivion, where it belongs.

Path to Liberty: August 21, 2023

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Institute for Justice – Policing for Profit 3rd Edition

USA Today Report – Federal loophole thwarts state efforts to curb civil asset forfeiture by police

IJ – How States Stack Up

Episode – Criminal: The Federal “Equitable Sharing” Asset Forfeiture Program

IJ Report – New Mexico

IJ Report – California

IJ – How States Have Shrunk the Loophole

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