ratification

Bill Of Rights Is Meant To Restrict The Feds, Not The States

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The Bill of Rights was used and created to provide further safeguards for the states against the Feds, just in case the Feds got the bright idea that they wanted to try, as the vulgar phrase goes in 2013, take our guns away. The Second Amendment says: No, you can’t; you’re prohibited from doing it. That doesn’t mean the State of Illinois couldn’t do […]

December 15, 2015 22

Founders Television

Patrick Henry Did Much More Than Say “Give Me Liberty, Or Give Me Death”

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - You're certainly familiar with the phrase "Give me liberty, or give me death" and you probably know that it was spoken by Patrick Henry. But what else do you know about the man? Well on today's Founders TV, on Patrick Henry's birthday, Mike gives us a brief history of the life of Patrick Henry. So be sure and watch and listen to […]

June 25, 2015 8

Daily Clip

James Madison Disproves Incorporation Of Rights

The Big Bat Known As The Bill Of Rights Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "For this we have Madison’s speech on the day that he introduced the Bill of Rights. Of course, he introduced the Bill of Rights because if he didn’t, Patrick Henry and George Mason and the Virginia Assembly were going to call for an Article V Amendment Convention, except they weren’t going to call for amendments. […]

June 17, 2015 9

Daily Clip

Read the Ratification Debates if You Really Want to Learn About [r]epublicanism

Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Audio & Transcript - This Clip of The Day was originally aired and published on Apr 10,2012 and is part of the Founders Pass Flashback Collection. If you really want to learn about conservatism and little r [r]epublicanism, the best material to study is the source material, and the cream of the crop is the Ratification Debates. Even Massachusetts, one of the most liberal states in […]

June 8, 2015 5

This Day in Founder's History

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 1 March

This Day In Founding Fathers History – 1 March 2013 On this day in 1781, the Articles of Confederation were ratified by Maryland, the final of the thirteen states to ratify. “The ratification of the Articles of Confederation was delayed for two years by Maryland, who refused to ratify until the larger states—primarily Virginia and New York—had ceded their extensive land claims in the West to the national government. Virginia […]

March 1, 2015 8

Transcripts

Wayward Sisters Prove There Was No Blob Of America

North Carolina and Rhode Island Paved The Way Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "When you read the actual history, not the way the decepticons and the progressive libs want you to read it, when you read the actual history, the conclusions should be unanimous. We should be able to unanimously conclude, beyond a shadow of a doubt as to the nature of our union. It would be healthful." Check out […]

February 24, 2015 13

Transcripts

It Was COUNTRIES That Ratified The Constitution NOT Agent-States

Mandeville, LA – INTRODUCTION: The men that wrote the Constitution never conceived or perceived that the army would be used to maraud the planet. They never thought of it like that because to them, the war-powers granted under Article I, Section 8 were for defense. As James Madison put it whilst pondering this subject while reviewing the nascent history of the Union under the Constitution. "Of all the enemies to public liberty […]

January 6, 2015 7

Transcripts

The Importance of Work

William Rawle's 1826 Work Kills Anti-Secession Ignorance Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "The power to ratify -- get this through your heads. Please get this through your heads. You are dangerous to liberty with your current mode of thinking. The power that is acknowledged -- this is key to understanding this, my friends. You have to understand this, for Heaven’s sake! The power that is acknowledged in Article VII of […]

October 25, 2014 11

The Founders

The Story of Patrick Henry, Josiah Phillips & Ferguson, MO

his post was originally published on Dec 12, 2013. The Josiah Phillips story illustrates the Founding generation's sense of when lethal force was justified and when it wasn't. That's what the argument between Patrick Henry and Edmund Randolph is really all about

August 19, 2014 8