I was so fascinated by the Constitution as a youngster that I attempted to re-write the Junior High Student Council Constitution in a way that would have given me, the esteemed Junior High Student Council President, vast executive powers. Our advisor wisely squashed my naked power grab. When you first learned about the U.S. Constitution…
By Stewart Jones While mobs continue tearing down monuments and shaming elected officials into removing statues of historical significance — from Christopher Columbus to Gen. Robert E. Lee and even Thomas Jefferson and George Washington — Clemson University (which receives over $100 million annually from the State of South Carolina) quietly decided to remove John…
By Bryan McCarthy & Jon Ungerland These are, as nearly everyone has said, “strange” (or “interesting” or “scary” or “tribal”) times. Far from the initial vision of a functional Union, all-consuming discord and fracturing have become our everyday. We are screeching at each other. Climate Change. Russia. The Wall. Immigration. Abortion. Guns. Race. Gender. Speech….
We are learning that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are not enough to maintain liberty. Freedom is maintained when a critical mass of the public acts in adherence to the timeless principles of individual liberty bequeathed to us. The words in the Constitution, explains Eric Metaxas in his book If You Can Keep…
Happy Sunday, Liberty Lovers! I was so excited to find the book Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation by Andrea Wulf. It combines two of my favorite things: gardening and the Founding Fathers. Let’s get lost in nature together as we discuss my thoughts on the Founding Gardeners…
They finally came for George Washington. The perpetual war on history now has the father of our country in its sights as the San Francisco Board of Education considers removing a mural of Washington from a local school. If the board succeeds in politicizing Washington, whose legacy was once so secured and uniting that his home…
As libertarians we may all have very different beliefs on the size and scope of government, but I think we can all can agree that both self-ownership and private property rights are fundamental to the preservation of a free and prosperous society and that if government is to exist at all its functions should be…