The Founders

Madison Is Not The Sacred Oracle Of Nullification

James Madison Is Not The Sacred Oracle Of Nullification But Guess Who Is? Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Why should it all just come down to whatever James Madison said? Madison was just one man after all. It seems that you would find other opinions on this and other writings and other things that could help flesh out what it was those that framed the Constitution, and the framers of […]

January 15, 2014 11

The Founders

Here’s An Example From Jefferson On How To Argue Your Position In A Scholarly Manner

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – How many times have you checked your email, gone to your Facebook page, gone to your Twitter feed, go to your blog on your website and someone has gotten into an internet spat or an electronic spat with someone else and they have played the final trump card? What is it? It’s a quote. How many times have you seen a quote played as […]

November 25, 2013 17

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How Did The United States Go From Articles Of Confederation To Constitution?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Well, the Articles of Confederation was most certainly and positively just that. It was a compact. By definition and description it was a confederation, meaning it was a federation of states or political entities that decided, for some express purposes, they needed to confederate together in order to have a better life and existence here after the Revolutionary War. Check out today’s transcript for […]

September 17, 2013 33

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James Madison Had True Patriotism, Not Like The Phony Patriotism Our Elected Officials Claim Today

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Think about this for just a moment. Madison is going to take Hamilton to task because Washington is not going to war, or is not going to act as an ally in a war. James Madison’s point is: Even when it comes to declaring neutrality, that’s still not a function of the executive, unless it’s a treaty to remain neutral. Then the executive can […]

September 4, 2013 9

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James Madison On Taxes And Immigration

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I just found it really fortuitous that I stumbled upon this letter while watching the Snowden clip about the nobility of the federal government and that’s what it was that drew Edward Snowden to it, then tying the whole immigration part of this letter to our current pickle over said immigration, being able to then see that back in 1794, 1795, 1796, just years […]

July 9, 2013 13

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James Madison Warns Of The Federal Monster

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The patriot ought to be the first one that raises his hand and says: We should be a beacon of peace and liberty to the world, and we should only rear our arms in our own defense, this existential own defense. What we’re doing abroad is unconscionable and would not be something that your average member of the founding father generation would sign off […]

May 24, 2013 23

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Patrick Henry Would Abolish The IRS, So Why Don’t We?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There’s a chapter in that book, in Albert Taylor Bledsoe’s book Is Davis a Traitor? and the chapter title is “The Founding Fathers As Political Prophets.” That’s the title of the chapter. Bledsoe lays out in very clear details from the Virginia Ratifying Convention that Patrick Henry and George Mason and others actually predicted the War of 1861, and they predicted exactly what would […]

May 17, 2013 19

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Patrick Henry – Statesman And Christian Gentleman

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – My interest is always piqued with people’s fascination with Henry. Their fascination with him just comes from one speech, the “Give me liberty or give me death” speech. The “Give me liberty or give me death” speech is a great speech, but there’s no transcript of this. No one ever wrote this thing down. He spoke, in what we would call today, extemporaneously. He […]

March 20, 2013 16

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What Patrick Henry Warned Us About Before the Constitution Was Ratified

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - All this fiscal cliff garbage, all this depressing talk about tax increases and all this, this is all preordained. It matters not the size and scope of our debts and deficits and what we owe and what our children are going to have to owe and the tax slavery you’ll live under to repay it. It is not going to change one iota, not […]

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