
Path to Liberty
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Michael Boldin covers the original constitution, principles of the revolution, and strategy – all with an eye on advancing liberty.
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Aug 30, 2023 • 29min
Dangerous Myth: Courts are the “Last Bulwark Against Tyranny”
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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Aug 28, 2023 • 30min
Ignorance is the “Footstool of Despotism”
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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Aug 25, 2023 • 18min
Liberty and Freedom: A View from the Founders
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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Aug 23, 2023 • 31min
Fear is the Foundation of Government Power
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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Aug 21, 2023 • 30min
Nullify the Federal “Equitable Sharing” Asset Forfeiture Program
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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Aug 18, 2023 • 13min
Armies and Debts and Taxes. Oh My!
The founders warned us – over and over and over again – about the dangers to liberty from war. As James Madison put it, war gives us armies, which lead to debts and taxes. This trifecta makes up the “known instruments for putting the many under the domination of the few.”
Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: August 18, 2023
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James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)
James Madison – Helvidius No. 4 (14 Sept 1793)
Episode – War Powers and the Constitution: An Introduction
James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (11 Dec 1787)
John Jay – Federalist No. 4
Thomas Paine – The Crisis V (21 Mar 1778)
George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)
Thomas Jefferson – First Inaugural (4 Mar 1801)
John Jay to Gouverneur Morris (24 Sept 1783)
Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part 1 (1791)
Joseph Warren – Massacre Day Oration (1775)
Samuel Adams to James Warren (1776)
Thomas Jefferson to Destutt de Tracy (26 Dec 1820)
Benjamin Franklin – Letter to Sir Joseph Banks (27 July 1783)
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Aug 16, 2023 • 36min
Thomas Jefferson vs the Surveillance State
Applying Thomas Jefferson’s strategy for advancing liberty to the massive and ever-growing surveillance state we live under today. One state is following it well, and all other states should copy their strategy as much as possible.
Path to Liberty: August 16, 2023
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Thomas Jefferson to Rev Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)
2019 – Utah Law Bans Warrantless Access to Information in the Cloud
2021 – Utah Law Further Limits Warrantless Collection of Electronic Data
2022 – Utah Law Expands Limits on Drone Surveillance
2023 – Utah Law Restricts Geofence Location Tracking
Thomas Jefferson to James Madison (17 Nov 1798)
Acoustic Gunshot Detection
Automate License Plate Readers
Episode – ALPR: Stalking You by Your License Plate
Facial Recognition
Montana Limits Warrantless use of Facial Recognition Technology
Surveillance Self-Defense
Naomi Brockwell – Twitter
5 Online Privacy Tips From Edward Snowden
Samuel Adams – Candidus in the Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)
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Aug 14, 2023 • 35min
Antifederalist: Top Warnings from the Federal Farmer
In his series of 18 letters, Federal Farmer repeatedly warned about the dangers of centralized power, predicting that the proposed government would end in “the destruction of freedom.”
Path to Liberty: August 14, 2023
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TJ Martinell – The Federal Farmer: The Constitution Would Lead to a Complete Consolidation
Tara Ross
Lee Family Archive
Federal Farmer I (8 Oct 1787)
Federal Farmer III (10 Oct 1787)
Episode – Patrick Henry vs the Stamp Act
Federal Farmer XVI (23 Jan 1788)
TJ Martinell – Federal Farmer Makes His Case for the Tenth Amendment
Jason Mandresh, FOTD
Federal Farmer VII (31 Dec 1787)
Tara Ross – Federal Farmer II
Federal Farmer IV (12 Oct 1787)
Tara Ross – Federal Farmer IV
Federal Farmer XI (10 Jan 1788)
Articles of Confederation Article 5
Jason Mandresh – FOTD – Comfortable Senators
Federal Farmer XIII (14 Jan 1788)
TJ Martinell – Federal Farmer: An “Unnecessary Departure” From Federalism
Federal Farmer XVIII (25 Jan 1788)
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Aug 11, 2023 • 20min
Ten Thousand Implied Powers: Patrick Henry’s Final Antifederalist Speech
In his last major speech during the Virginia Ratifying Convention, Patrick Henry warned against the potential for “ten thousand implied powers,” and called for a number of amendments prior to ratification.
Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: August 11, 2023
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Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (24 June 1788)
Concordia University Recap
Episode – Implied vs Expressly Reserved: Patrick Henry’s Anti-Federalist Speeches 5-7
TJ Martinell – Patrick Henry’s Warning on “Implied Authority”
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Aug 9, 2023 • 0sec
Decentralization: The Cure for Polarization
Everywhere you turn, it seems like people are at each other’s throats. Everything has gotten political – and it’s only going to keep getting worse. Unless, of course, the people see the source of the problem – consolidation and factions and factions and consolidation – and take action to reject it.
Path to Liberty: August 9, 2023
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Yuval Levin – Constituting Unity
Hannah Cox – FEE
Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution (Ch. XXXI)
Thomas Gordon – Works of Sallust (1744)
Noah Webster – The Revolution in France (1794)
Episode – Faction is Death to Liberty
George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)
George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (4 June 1788)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Gideon Granger (13 Aug 1800)
Episode – Consolidation Leads to Force: Antifederalist Cato No. 3
Samuel Adams – Letter to Elbridge Gerry (22 Aug 1789)
Mike Maharrey – The Most Essential Danger
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