What Is Flawed Is Congress’s Constitutional Power To Make More Debt Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Patrick Henry, Colonel William Grayson, James Monroe, many, many anti-federalists, as they were called, that opposed ratification kept asking why the borrowing power was put in there, and why it was the first one.”  Check out today’s transcript...Read More

  Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The way it would work and the way it was pitched in the ratifying conventions, and the way it was discussed in the drafting convention was that the founders had a great fear that if you left election or selection of the presidency in the hands of the...Read More

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. On this day in 1776, the Continental Congress resolved to sever its ties to Great Britain and declare independence.Read More

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 15 March 2013 On this day in 1820, Maine joined the union as the 23rd state, part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The population of Maine at that time was nearly 300,000 and the territory consisted of nine counties and 236 towns. It took delegates three weeks...Read More

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 8 March 2013 On this day in 1788, Federalist No. 66 was published, entitled “Objections to the Power of the Senate to Set as a Court for Impeachments Further Considered,” authored by Alexander Hamilton. Federalist No. 66 reads, in part: A REVIEW of the principal objections that have...Read More

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1779 a letter was written to Thomas Paine, find out what it said in today's Founding Fathers History....Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/daily-clip/21012015_COD_Madison_condemned_abuse_of_Constitution_powers_with_Kevin_Gutzman_PREVIEW.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Mike: There are probably eight people on the planet — me, you, and the six other guys that wrote books about Madison, and maybe Tom Woods — that knew what you meant when you said Jefferson got...Read More

On this day (or the 18th, depending on the source) in 1789, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton began negotiations to secure the first loan to the U.S. government, referred to as the “Temporary Loan of 1789,” in order to pay the salaries of the President and members of Congress. Find out what else happened...Read More

On this day in 1789, Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury by President Washington. Initially Robert Morris had been appointed Secretary of the Treasury, but Morris declined the office and recommended Hamilton for the position. Find out what else happened on This Day in Founders History at mikechurch.comRead More

This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. Another birthday on this day in 1744, that of Elbridge Gerry. Gerry assumed the office of vice president under President Madison after George Clinton died in office, and Gerry too died in office...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In the same hall, eleven years later, men are meeting to discuss the new plan of government, the Virginia Plan as it’s known.  Today is the 19th, so we’re almost three weeks into the discussion over James Madison’s Virginia Plan as offered by Edmund Randolph.  It’s around about this...Read More

Interview with Kevin Gutzman – Federal Convention Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Let’s get to the matter at hand here with Professor Kevin Gutzman, who is one of the foremost authorities on James Madison.  I wanted to start with the introduction of the Virginia Plan, which happened 237 years ago today.  Governor Randolph was, of...Read More

Federal Convention and the Constitution Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “So how did they arrive in Philadelphia on the 14th of May 1787?  They were supposed to have this convention.  And why would we care about that today?  Well, the reason we ought to care about it is because of the pretenses under which they...Read More

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in 1749, that of William Blount. Find out about him in today's Founders History...Read More

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 25 March On this day in 1788, Federalist No. 74 was published in the New York Packet, entitled “The Command of the Military and Naval Forces, and the Pardoning Power of the Executive,” authored by Alexander Hamilton. 1 This day is celebrated as Maryland Day. It commemorates this...Read More

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in 1748, that of Elias Hicks.Read More

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. Two notable birthdays today, that of John C. Calhoun and Grover Cleveland… the last Jeffersonian.Read More

 Militia Needs Everything the Standing Military Has Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “The Virginia militia, the South Carolina militia, the Georgia militia, the North Carolina militia, the Tennessee volunteers, they were already armed.  They were armed as militiamen and they were armed as if they were an army that could be called upon and...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - This subject seems to keep coming up on the Mike Church Show: Has the saturation point for the American sheople's faith in their governments to avert the looming fiscal crisis been reached? Mike's take is "yes" and this is evidence by the surge of support for Ron Paul and...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Now you and I can talk about preserving my Financial Sanity in Three Easy Lessons, your new book. David Simpson, whom many of you know, he’s been on the show many times, he’s provided financial counsel to me in the past. What are the three easy lessons? Check out...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There’s a new book out called Politics on a Human Scale: The American Tradition of Decentralism. It’s published by Lexington Books. Dr. Jeff Taylor is the author. I read part of this essay to you last week and I’ve referred to it a couple other times last week. Dr....Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What has emerged is that there are instances where he has quoted effusively or excessively from prior written works. He’s done so in his speeches and he’s done so in his written works. Quoting from prior written works is fine. I do it all the time. You have to...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Pickering sees as a solution that the Northern way of life, in order to be preserved, must separate from the Southern. How inconvenient is that statement!? The Northern way of life is in jeopardy by the Democrats of the aristocratic South, as he called them. This, of course, after...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – There is an essay at The American Conservative Magazine website. [mocking] “Mike, you were hard on The American Conservative Magazine yesterday.” Yeah, well, I was just being honest. I don’t ask for jingoism from anyone else, so I don’t expect that anyone expects they’re going to get jingoism or...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Did you hear the rest of what Paine said? If the power to tax and the power to bind in all cases whatsoever, if that is not slavery, he didn’t know what was or is. Aren’t we operating under the exact same threat that this government, this State can...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Yes, we’re going to go down the road of constitutional fantasy land for just a moment. This could be another exercise in civics. Why should the President of the United States, why should that veto pen of his have such grave or awesome power? To answer that query is...Read More

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...Read More

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...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – We know that George Washington had friends and close associates that owned slaves. I demand that the U.S. Treasury -- as a matter of fact, I want a giant crane with a five-ton wrecking ball on the end of it to smash that thing called the Washington Monument. That...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – That’s what we did with Is Davis A Traitor? It is, in our opinion and in the opinion of many people, the greatest book ever written about not only was secession a constitutional right prior to the war of 1861, but on the Constitution as a compact and the...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I want to repeat, there are three instances under which the militia would fall under the control of the Congress, and then only to write rules for how they should be disciplined. The three instances are: there is a declaration of war, the country or a state has been...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This is what you get when you don’t study history and when we think we’re just us and there was no history that came before us because we’re so arrogant and conceited. You do know that it was members of the Roman Senate, senators, that killed Julius Caesar, or...Read More

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The citizens of this country are just as stupid as we can be, and that includes our forefathers who are just as lazy and apathetic as we could be. All the powers that we have granted that we refuse to reclaim are just mindboggling. The tyranny that could be...Read More

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1788 Federalist No. 68 by Alexander Hamilton was published, find out what it said in today's Founders History...Read More

This Day in Founding Founders History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in history in 1756, that of Aaron Burr.Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - James Madison and the Making of America is out in paperback today. The author, of course, the one and only Kevin Gutzman, is on the Dude Maker Hotline with us. Check out today's transcript for the rest...Read More

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - The Founders set up a way to raise revenue and, if need be, borrow money in case of war, so that we wouldn't be in constant debt. But because of the Progressive Era, spending and borrowing has gone out of control and we're $16 Trillion in the...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/post-show-show/FH_080912.mp4Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS[private FP-Yearly|FP-Monthly] If you’re having problems playing the video, please download it, there may be an incompatibility with your browser. [/private]   This Day In Founders History – 9 August On this day in 1790, Robert Gray docked his boat Columbia...Read More

https://media.blubrry.com/crusade/mikechurch.com/mc-media/post-show-show/FH_hd_080412.mp4Podcast: Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSS[private FP-Yearly|FP-Monthly] If you’re having problems playing the video, please download it, there may be an incompatibility with your browser. [/private] This Weekend In Founders History – 4 & 5 August On this day in 1790, the Revenue-Marine was established by...Read More

  Oy! VA Governor McDonnell says that borrowed money, printed out of thin air helped VA balance its books in 2009 Kaufman: Ron Paul, the Thin Man cometh is either a harbinger of the future or the last gasp of an optimistic attempt to save the former DeceptiCONNED: Just as I have lamented like a...Read More