Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - The Bill of Rights is coming around at a time when Rhode Island and North Carolina are refusing to ratify. They’re still terrified of the new government. Do you really think the first ten amendments were put in there so the federal government could order the states about? It’s...Read More
Podcast (mike_church_preview): Play in new window | Download | EmbedSubscribe: Google Podcasts | Email | RSSMandeville, LA – Did the SCOTUS really settle the issue of “religious freedom” when it ruled for the Colorado cake baker in his lawsuit against the Colorado “Civil Rights Commission”? No says Mike and regular guest Michael Hichborn of the...Read More
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...Read More
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...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 1754, Benjamin Franklin’s “Join, or Die” was published in the Pennsylvania Gazette.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 1674, that of William Byrd, also referred to as William Byrd II of Westover.Read More
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...Read More
14th Amendment and Ratified Intent Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – (Editor’s Note: This transcript was originally Published on: Jan 29, 2014) Folks, this is why it’s called ratified intent. It doesn’t matter what today’s nitwits want the law to say. What matters is what did the ratifiers say they were ratifying? If you don’t like...Read More
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 aboutRead More
There are four men that are mentioned in this that were in the Philadelphia Convention that framed the Constitution. All four of them realized the gravity of what it is they're discussing in 1794 in Congress. Three of them decide that the solution is disunion. The fourth says I don't think you should do that,...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Jim, you may as well have burned the Virginia Constitution because you’re right, that federal court basically said the people of Virginia do not have the legal authority to amend their own charter if a federal judge or a civil rights interest group has a contravening preference. Self-government is gone. ...Read More
This Day In Founding Fathers History – 31 July On this day in 1775, the Continental Congress issued “Resolutions of Congress on Lord North’s Conciliatory Proposal.” The proposal had been an attempt to divide the colonies by urging one or more colonies to abandon the others. British Parliament offered colonies to the chance to contribute...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 1798, the United States Marine Band was officially formed with legislation signed by President John Adams.Read More
The Cantor Concession Speech Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “What is this conservative that you speak of, sir? Who is this conservative that you speak of? You see, folks, now we come full square staring right in the eyeballs, right between the eyes of the perversion of the use of that word, of that...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 1863, West Virginia joined the Union as the 35th state.Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The greatest revolution among the 13 colonies was not the one that was taking place in Philadelphia in Independence Hall. It was actually taking place in Williamsburg. This was the erection of or the composition of the first state constitution that a free people, or people who had acquired...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 1800, President John Adams became the first president to live in Washington, D.C. by taking residence at the Union Tavern in Georgetown.Read More
This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. One notable birthday on this day in 1736, that of Patrick Henry.Read More
This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1856 on this day, violence erupted in Congress when Representative Preston Brooks of South Carolina entered the Senate chamber and beat Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane.Read More
This Day in Founding Fathers History - Where we bring you important dates in the lives and history of the Founding Generation. In 1607 on this day, the Jamestown settlement was established by English settlers with the Virginia Company of London.Read More
James Monroe the Republican Hero Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Happy belated birthday to James Monroe. That’s why we started this conversation, because Monroe was one of two continentals that was wounded in the Battle of Trenton. If you’ve heard Times That Try Men’s Souls or if you’ve read about it, you know that it...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “We have this little piece of history that I found, this essay that was written by John Taylor about the yet to be assembled Virginia Dynasty’s quandary in the early days of the [r]epublic. If you don’t know what the Virginia dynasty was, it was the presidencies of Jefferson, Madison...Read More
Today’s Children Would Not Understand Something Written in 1886. Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Wouldn’t it be a sign of a regenerating spirit of republicanism and of the primary things that kids ought to be learning as opposed to the compulsory things that we force them to learn — this magazine, my point, is...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – “Let me just interject something really quick here and resay that this is Professor Dr. Kevin Gutzman, who is, in some of our opinions and in the opinion of many of your colleagues, the eminent James Madison scholar of our time. There is one other that you mention and you’re...Read More
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...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – When I say dark sides, one of the things that we confront here is that there is a choice being made here, and it is being made in the affirmative, and that is that in all instances, because somebody says so today in 2014, an Article V amendment convention...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I have this story here, and I know some of you have seen this already. This just broils me where I don’t want to be broiled. “U.S. Army War College considers removing prints depicting Robert E. Lee, Confederate generals.” Check out today’s transcript for the rest… Begin Mike Church...Read More
"He brings up Josiah Phillips and accuses Henry of basically being a tyrant (like an NSA agent). Patrick Henry was most certainly not a tyrant. While accusing Henry of being a tyrant, he then makes the case -- that if Virginia ratifies the new Constitution, then the kind of pursuit and lack of due process...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – When people are confronted with what seems to be no-win situations, and when they are confronted with the absoluteness of certain defeat, this is when some are inspired or are motivated to maybe do things and consider things that they had not considered before. Right now may be such...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I guess the point I’m trying to make by relaying to you what Fineman is writing here is that we are all but numbers in the grand elite game of chess that’s being played, with the grand prize being $3.8 trillion of other people’s money that these clowns in...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Wouldn’t it then be a quid pro quo to say then that the people that live in the purple or blue counties are as entitled to their own share or their own self-government as the people that are in the red counties? If they are, then what is the...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Getting a sampling of what you people are thinking and talking about today, many of you are pointing out that you’ve tried to Google search to get some news, view some news from the secession initiatives in Colorado yesterday and you can’t find it. I had the same problem....Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Just looking at the electoral map of Virginia, you have an entire state, I’d say about 90 percent of the geographical area, is entirely red. These aren’t even close reds. Click on any one of the counties and not one of them is a horse race. Then you have...Read More
Mike Church participated in the annual Free Enterprise Institute's "Founders Day Breakfast" at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston TX. Joining a list of luminary speakers including Annette Kirk, widow of the late Dr Russell Kirk, Stephen Klugewicz, Houston Texans owner Bob McNair and Gleaves Whitney, Mike delivered a spirited 8 minute presentation of...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – This is a complicated political question. Congress and the Lincoln administration did not reach a legal determination; they reached a political determination. There is a difference between the two. As a matter of fact, one of the subjects on tonight’s video presentation at MikeChurch.com will be Professor Brion McClanahan...Read More
Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – The reason I share with you Lee’s letter is because Lee sees the writing on the wall if arrogant men, if designing men are not prevented from obtaining too much power. This is exactly what has transpired because it is the natural course. This requires virtuous statesmen to stop...Read More
During the VA Ratifying Convention Patrick Henry was the most frequent speaker against ratification of the new Constitution. Here, on 4 June, 1788, Mr. Henry first spoke to the delegates and reminded them of Virginia's sovereignty and her membership in a confederation of states. This speech is acted out in my movie "The Spirit of...Read More
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Video and Audio - On June 20, 1863, West Virginia seceded from Virginia... and is now one of the 50 United States of America. Wow, how did that happen if secession were illegal? While the war of Northern Aggression was going on, West Virginia decided to practice self-determination. They didn't like...Read More
Mandeville, LA - Exclusive Transcript - We start off the New Year taking you back to the 25th of June. That is, the 25th of June in the year of our Lord 1788. It was on this date that in Richmond, Virginia in a place called 'The New Academy Of Sciences',which is now just a...Read More