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October 26, 2001 – We’re still grappling with the blowback that comes with allowing freedom to be eviscerated in exchange for the false promise of “security” Path to Liberty: October 25, 2023 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Andrew Napolitano: Neither Liberty nor Safety John Whitehead: 22 Years of Blowback from the USA Patriot Act Benjamin Franklin – Reply to the Governor (11 Nov 1755) EPIC – Patriot Act Overview Sharon Bradford Franklin – Rethinking Surveillance Marcy Wheeler – Section 215 CDR William Binney – The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by NSA alumni EFF – NSA Surveillance Under Section 702 EFF – ‘Incidental,’ Not Accidental, Collection Episode – Like a Cancer: Warrantless Surveillance under Section 702 John Whitehead: Who Will Protect Us from an Unpatriotic Patriot Act? Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act Episode – Patriot Act on Steroids: Surveillance State Beyond Section 215 How Patriot Act Affects Financial Institutions? Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part II (1792) MORE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Rumble Watch on Odysee Watch on Sovren Watch on Twitter Watch on Minds Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Brighteon Watch on LinkedIn Watch on Gab FOLLOW and SUPPORT TAC: Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest The post 22 Years of Patriot Act Blowback first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

For James Madison, the people of the several states were both the source of all power – and thus the ultimate solution to usurpations – but at the same time, the source of many of the problems due to the tendency towards factions – ultimately leading to the majority trampling on the rights of the minority. Path to Liberty: October 23, 2023 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Philadelphia Convention (31 Aug 1787) Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776) Speech Introducing Amendments to the Constitution (8 June 1789) Declaration of Independence Letter to Thomas Jefferson (19 Mar 1787) Virginia Ratifying Convention (6 June 1788) Virginia Ratifying Convention (11 June 1788) Federalist 46 (29 Jan 1788) Virginia Resolutions (21-23 Dec 1798) Report of 1800 (7 Jan 1800) Maharrey: The Power of Factions Federalist 10 (23 Nov 1787) Federalist 50 (5 Jan 1788) MORE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Rumble Watch on Odysee Watch on Sovren Watch on Twitter Watch on Minds Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Brighteon Watch on LinkedIn Watch on Gab FOLLOW and SUPPORT TAC: Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest The post We the People: Both the Solution and the Problem first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

The largest government in history is not even remotely close to the system the founders set up under the Constitution. Things didn’t get like this overnight – and there’s a root cause for why it’ll keep getting worse. Understanding it is to also understand the solution. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: October 20, 2023 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives James Madison – Federalist 45 Alexander Hamilton – New York Ratifying Convention (28 June 1788) Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Feb 1791) Maharrey: The Biggest, Most Powerful Government in the History of the World John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania VII (1767) James Otis – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767) John Dickinson – Broadside against the Stamp Act (1765) John Adams – Novanglus III (6 Feb 1775) James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788) MORE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Rumble Watch on Odysee Watch on Sovren Watch on Twitter Watch on Minds Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Brighteon Watch on LinkedIn Watch on Gab FOLLOW and SUPPORT TAC: Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest The post We’ve Got a Serious Compliance Problem first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

Thanks to a growing number of unconstitutional federal programs, local law enforcement in almost every jurisdiction has been drawn in as tools of a national police state the founders would’ve despised. But states aren’t required to participate, even under modern precedent. Here are 5 big areas where they can simply opt out and help bring this unconstitutional national police state to an end. Path to Liberty: October 18, 2023 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798) John Whitehead – America’s Crisis State Goes Global John Whitehead – The Cost of the Nation’s Endless Wars John Whitehead – 20 Years of Government-Sponsored Tyranny Episode – Militarized Federal Agencies: The Other Standing Army? Episode – Top-4 Ways the Feds Nationalize and Militarize Local Police Episode – Nullify the Federal “Equitable Sharing” Asset Forfeiture Program Maharrey – Joint Law Enforcement Task Forces are Creating a National Police State MORE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Rumble Watch on Odysee Watch on Sovren Watch on Twitter Watch on Minds Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Brighteon Watch on LinkedIn Watch on Gab FOLLOW and SUPPORT TAC: Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest The post Nullify the National Police State: Top-5 to Opt Out first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

Understanding nullification – what it is and what needs to be done – is far easier when you have a good understanding of these foundational principles underlying it. Path to Liberty: October 16, 2023 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives George Mason – Remarks on Annual Elections for the Fairfax Independent Company (Apr 1775) Robert Livingston – New York Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788) Mercy Otis Warren – Observations on the New Constitution (1788) Free book – Tenth Amendment: Power from the People Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part I (1791) “Lighthorse” Harry Lee – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788) John Jay – A Citizen of New York (Apr 1788) Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of the National Bank (15 Feb 1791) James Otis, Jr. – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761) Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788) Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798) James Madison – Federalist 48 (1 Feb 1788) John Dickinson – Fabius IV (19 Apr 1788) Roger Sherman – A Countryman II (22 Nov 1787) James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (24 Nov 1787) James Madison – Federalist 49 (2 Feb 1788) Thomas Jefferson’s Fair Copy (4 Oct 1798) Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33 (3 Jan 1788) George Washington – Circular to the States (8 June 1783) James Otis, Jr. (11 Jan 1762) MORE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Rumble Watch on Odysee Watch on Sovren Watch on Twitter Watch on Minds Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Brighteon Watch on LinkedIn Watch on Gab FOLLOW and SUPPORT TAC: Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest The post Nullification 101: 6 Core Principles first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

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 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives 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) MORE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Rumble Watch on Odysee Watch on Sovren Watch on Twitter Watch on Minds Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Brighteon Watch on LinkedIn Watch on Gab FOLLOW and SUPPORT TAC: Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest The post Jefferson Nullified? The Embargo of 1807-09 first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

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 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives 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) MORE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Rumble Watch on Odysee Watch on Sovren Watch on Twitter Watch on Minds Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Brighteon Watch on LinkedIn Watch on Gab FOLLOW and SUPPORT TAC: Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest The post Foreign Policy of the Founders first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

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 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives 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 MORE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Rumble Watch on Odysee Watch on Sovren Watch on Twitter Watch on Minds Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Brighteon Watch on LinkedIn Watch on Gab FOLLOW and SUPPORT TAC: Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest The post Property Rights are the Foundation of all the Rest first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

One of the worst years ever, 1913 gave us the tools that support the largest government in history Path to Liberty: October 4, 2023 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Wiki: 16th Amendment Episode 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 MORE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Rumble Watch on Odysee Watch on Sovren Watch on Twitter Watch on Minds Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Brighteon Watch on LinkedIn Watch on Gab FOLLOW and SUPPORT TAC: Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest The post 1913 Was a Terrible Year for the Constitution and Liberty first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.

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 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives 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) MORE VIDEO SOURCES Watch on Rumble Watch on Odysee Watch on Sovren Watch on Twitter Watch on Minds Watch on Facebook Watch on Bitchute Watch on Brighteon Watch on LinkedIn Watch on Gab FOLLOW and SUPPORT TAC: Become a Member: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/members/ Email Newsletter: http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/register RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/tacdailydigest The post The Imperial Senate: Anti-Federalist Warnings first appeared on Tenth Amendment Center.