sovereignty

Congress Isn’t Needed to Secede

Upstate New York Can Secede without Groveling to Congress Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "Whatever will Chris Matthews and the rest of them do? Last week it was California. Two weeks ago it was Oregon and Northern California. Three weeks it was Arizona. Back in November it was Colorado. Last week it was Maryland. Now it’s New York. Gee, none of these places have plantations and slaves. Why would […]

February 20, 2014 9

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Why Is Presidents Day A Holiday?

The General Government and the Power To Declare a Holiday Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "While we’re in the middle of the discussion here on Presidents’ Day, what power does the general government have to compel a holiday on the rest of us? Not that most lazy, underachieving people out there that call themselves Americans won’t take the opportunity to seize upon any day that could be called a […]

February 18, 2014 7

The Founders

Abel Upshur Knew The Constitution Was Imperfect And Would Lead To Consolidation

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – If you’re going to be a republican and you’re going to espouse and profess to promote and to pledge your life, your fortune and your sacred honor in protecting republican principles, then you are going to have to do it -- there’s no option here, to be honest and to be successful in this and truthful, all at the same time -- you’re going […]

January 21, 2014 15

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John Taylor of Caroline Explained: Federal Leviathan is Not Sovereign, We Are

The Federal Leviathan is Not Sovereign, We The People Are Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "It’s your body, your life. It is your property. You own your own intellectual property. You own the fruits of your own labor. You are sovereign, in other words. An entity, like the federal government, can’t be sovereign, not in the same sense that an individual can." Check out today’s transcript for the rest… Begin […]

January 15, 2014 8

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Compacts Aren’t Just For Purses: The Constitution As A Compact Pt I

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This particular individual [Mark Levin] is making the claim about James Madison. He has his army of acolytes out there making the claim [mocking] “What the Tenth Amendment Center, and what Mike Church and Kevin Gutzman and Tom Woods and the rest of these rabblerousing, ill-informed losers is trying to do is undo our union. They want secession. They don’t want nullification. They don’t […]

January 10, 2014 4

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Yankee Caller Says No One Can Leave This Perpetual Union Of Indivisible States

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Here’s another great little historical inconvenience, Frank. Pennsylvania was also part of a perpetual union according to the Articles of Confederation. You have been living in this union in violation of your own theory, according to the act ratified in November of 1781 called the Articles of Confederation. How does that taste in your pipe? Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

November 21, 2013 7

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Revisionist History, Lincoln, And The Gettysburg Address

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – By the bye, Richard Gamble, a friend and colleague of Dr. Brad Birzer’s at Hillsdale had a piece posted last week at The American Conservative Magazine entitled “Gettysburg Gospel.” I did not know this. Did you know that some of the quotes that Lincoln tossed into the American scripture were actually taken from a journal? Check out today’s transcript for the rest…

November 21, 2013 8

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[r]epublicanism Is The Glue That Can Hold This Country Together

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – In other words, we’ll vote for benefits that we know we can’t afford. We’re going to borrow money from future generations. Even when we’re told, like the Greeks are being told “You gotta stop,” we won’t do it. We’ll throw hissy fits and demand that the rest of the world bail us out. That is the pathetic state of affairs we find ourselves in […]

November 18, 2013 4

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The Constitution Is Dead, But We Do Have Three Remedies For Decentralizing Leviathan

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – What I think I figured out is that the Obamacare act has so many of you so frustrated, politically frustrated, and since it has become nearly the singular cause célèbra of the “conservative movement,” and that there doesn’t seem to be a constitutional remedy to escape it. We’re not going to take it, but there are probably three constitutional remedies. Check out today’s transcript […]

November 14, 2013 8