Tomorrow, September 17, is Constitution Day (1787). In our current state of judicial contortions, it is wise to heed the words of Thomas Jefferson: “On every question of construction [let us] carry ourselves back to…
I commute weekly to work at a very large out-of-state company with a lot of employee breakrooms, and a unionized workforce that bids on its job schedules and break areas, based on seniority. There is…
A few dozen courageous men gathered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4, 1776 to sign the Declaration of Independence, a bold, unprecedented statement for individual liberty. They placed their lives, honor, and all their property…
Cornwallis at Yorktown The Fourth of July holiday celebrates the beginning of the American Revolution, not its successful conclusion. And yet we probably would never have heard of the Declaration of Independence or Thomas Jefferson, if…
“The people of every country are the only guardians of their own rights and are the only instruments which can be used for their destruction. It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty…
“During the course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an institution…
“When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into…