Showing posts with label Articles of Confederation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Articles of Confederation. Show all posts
Thursday, December 03, 2020

Podcast Interview on the Constitution

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Aaron Keith Harris and I discussed America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited  on the LP Mises Caucus podcast, Decentraliz...
Monday, August 15, 2016

America's Counter-Revolution Reviewed

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Independent historian (and old friend) Joseph R. Stromberg reviewed America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited  at The Ame...
Thursday, July 07, 2016

Brexit, Scott Horton, and Me

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Scott Horton and I discuss Brexit here .
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Jeff Tucker Interviews Me about "America's Counter-Revolution

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Friday, March 11, 2016

TGIF: Conceived in Tyranny

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If the American Revolution was in some large measure a tax rebellion, we should appreciate the bitter irony that the U.S. Constitution was i...
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Friday, February 26, 2016

TGIF: The Constitution and the Standing Army

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The U.S. Constitution can reasonably be seen as a massive tax and mercantilist trade-promotion program. However, there's a third leg to...
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Thursday, January 28, 2016

TGIF: The Bill of Rights Revisited

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Drawing on work by historian Gordon S. Wood, I recently suggested that we see the U.S. Constitution not as a landmark in the struggle for l...
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Friday, January 22, 2016

TGIF: The Constitution Revisited

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I am mystified that so many libertarians still see the U.S. Constitution as a landmark achievement in the struggle for liberty. On principle...
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Friday, May 29, 2015

TGIF: The Choice Is between Government and Liberty

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An article by George H. Smith from a few years ago makes a distinction about freedom that seems worth pursuing. In “Jack and Jill and Two K...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

How'd That Work Out?

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The early American radicals insisted on decentralization of power, which required a weak national government and sovereign states. The early...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

TGIF: James Madison: Father of the Implied-Powers Doctrine

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Don't be fooled by Madison's promise that the Constitution would create a government of "few and defined" powers. Read abo...
Monday, July 22, 2013

From Articles of Confederation to Constitution

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My July FFF webinar was titled "From Articles of Confederation to Constitution." Here's the audio.
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Wednesday, February 06, 2013

Podcast on the 16th Amendment

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Steve Stanek of the Heartland Institute interviewed me recently about the Constitution, the 16th Amendment, and the income tax. Listen here ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Constitution or Liberty

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Someone excerpted the last four minutes of a lecture I gave at a FEE seminar a few summers ago. Enjoy!
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Friday, October 29, 2010

TGIF: Is Freedom a Radical Idea?

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Throughout history, and with only the rarest of exceptions, freedom has been far removed from the center of political events — even during ...
Thursday, May 07, 2009

Constitutional Question of the Day

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(Full disclosure: I probably won't be able to do this everyday.) Articles of Confederation , Article II. Each state retains its sovereig...
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Friday, August 08, 2008

Was the Constitution Really Meant to Constrain the Government?

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My message is not one of despair. But we will not cause the freedom philosophy to prevail merely by invoking a political document written by...
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Saturday, December 08, 2007

The Constitution or Liberty

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If the foundation of our case for liberty is nothing more than the Constitution -- rather than natural-law justice -- we will continue to be...
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Friday, May 11, 2007

That Mercantilist Commerce Clause

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The Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution has been used to justify a wide expansion of government power, from antidiscrimination laws to ...
Friday, March 23, 2007

Arthur Ekirch's The Decline of American Liberalism

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I like revisiting classic, and unfortunately forgotten, works in the (classical) liberal, or libertarian, canon. This pays several dividends...
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