Tenth Amendment Center

2ND AMENDMENT: Everyone Armed to Preserve Liberty (Founders Warnings) The founders knew that an armed society was essential to preserving liberty - because they lived it first hand. In fact, this was one of the most critical lessons they passed down to us. In this episode, learn some powerful views from leading founders and old revolutionaries on the right to keep and bear arms as a natural right, on the role of the militia as a defence against both foreign and domestic danger, and the goal that everyone be armed to preserve liberty. Path to Liberty: November 22, 2024

“Self-defense is a primary law of nature, which no subsequent law of society can abolish.” That’s how the great Mercy Otis Warren put it. But this wasn’t just a philosophical view for the Founders and Old Revolutionaries. They knew an armed society was essential to preserving liberty – because they lived it firsthand. In fact, it was one of the most critical gifts they passed down to us. https://lnkd.in/gArQrE_8

“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” wrote Thomas Jefferson, “it expects what never was and never will be.” That’s why we focus so much on educating people about the original meaning of the Constitution, the foundational principles of liberty, and the American Revolution. Jefferson was right. “Knowledge is power - and ignorance is weakness.” https://lnkd.in/gxGqszhX

Rights are not gifts from government. They don’t come from documents, or courts, or legislation – or anything of the like. https://lnkd.in/gpQ7FyHw

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RESIST THEM: Samuel Adams’ Forgotten Call for Liberty For Adams, it was a moral imperative to stand up for what’s right, even against the most powerful government in history. Unfortunately, his bold call for liberty has been almost entirely forgotten. https://lnkd.in/gk2qQMJq

Happy Birthday to "The Chancellor," Robert R. Livingston. "All power is derived from the people. They consider the state and the general governments as different deposits of that power." -Speech in the New York Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788)

The “Evils of Paper Money” Have No End: The Founders Warned us Why https://lnkd.in/gKbMH2kv

Benjamin Franklin’s Brilliant Satire: Exposing British Hypocrisy Through a Fake Prussian Edict https://lnkd.in/gaDSpMbm

A reminder from the 1st Chief Justice