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Jan 17, 2024 • 28min
Benjamin Franklin’s Finest: Top Quotes on his Birthday
Born on January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin was world famous for his many contributions and accomplishments in various fields. He is widely remembered for his witty and wise quotes, but his legacy also includes essential insights on government, power, liberty and more.
Path to Liberty: Jan 17, 2024
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Letter to the Marquis de Lafayette (14 May 1781)
Observations on An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Disputes (1769)
Observations on The True Constitutional Means for Putting an End to the Disputes
Philadelphia Convention (4 June 1787)
Philadelphia Convention (17 Sept 1787)
Episode – A Republic. If you Can Keep it.
Letter to Jean-Baptiste LeRoy (13 Nov 1789)
Philadelphia Convention (2 June 1787)
Benjamin Franklin to Dumas (18 May 1779)
Of the Paper Money of America (1780)
Letter to Jane Mecom (1 Nov 1773)
JL Bell – The Full History of “Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to God”
Letter to James Bowdoin (25 Feb 1775)
Poor Richard’s Almanack
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1755
1737
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Jan 15, 2024 • 45min
The Big Lie: Jefferson and War with the Barbary States
Both left and right have been more than happy to perpetuate a huge lie in order to justify unilateral executive war powers never delegated to the president in the Constitution. They do this by telling a false story of how Thomas Jefferson responded to the Barbary Pirates in 1801. Learn what really happened with a timeline of events.
Path to Liberty: January 15, 2024
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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)
Monticello – First Barbary War
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Monroe (11 Nov 1784)
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Horatio Gates (13 Dec 1784)
John Adams – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (3 July 1786)
Treaty with Tripoli (1796)
James Cathcart, Letter to Sec of State (7 Oct 1800)
James Cathcart – Circular to the Consuls and Agents of the United States (21 Feb 1801)
An Act Providing for a Naval Peace Establishment (3 Mar 1801)
Notes of a Cabinet Meeting (15 May 1801)
Samuel Smith – to Commodore Richard Dale, US Navy (20 May 1801)
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Yusuf Qaramanli, Pasha and Bey of Tripoli (21 May 1801)
James Madison – Circular Letter to American Consuls, Mediterranean (21 May 1801)
Circular issued by James L. Cathcart, U.S. Consul, Tripoli (15 May 1801)
James Cathcart – Letter to James Madison (16 May 1801)
Clements Library – The Tripolitan War
Thomas Jefferson – First Annual Message to Congress (8 Dec 1801)
Act for Protection of Commerce and Seaman of the United States against the Tripolitan Corsairs (6 Feb 1802)
X Post – The Jeffersonian View in 3 points
John Jay, Letter to Gouverneur Morris (24 Sept 1783)
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Jan 12, 2024 • 17min
Stop Doing This: Party-First Approach
There is “nothing more dangerous to the cause of truth and liberty than a party-spirit.” Yet, today, most people approach most issues through a party-first mentality. That has to stop for liberty to grow.
Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: January 12, 2024
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Noah Webster – The Revolution in France (1794)
Thomas Gordon – Works of Sallust (1744)
Trenchard and Gordon: Forgotten Influence on the Founders
John Adams – “U” to the Boston Gazette (29 Aug 1763)
Cato’s Letters No. 51 (4 Nov 1721)
Cato’s Letters No. 134 (29 June 1723)
Noah Webster, Letter to George Washington (20 Apr 1794)
George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)
Benjamin Franklin – Poor Richard Improved (1753)
Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson (13 Mar 1789)
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Jan 10, 2024 • 27min
Militia vs Standing Army: The Founders’ View
To a vast majority of the founding generation, standing armies were extremely dangerous, “the bane of liberty.” The best way to prevent them? Render them unnecessary.
Path to Liberty: January 10, 2024
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Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)
George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)
Noah Webster – An Examination Into the Leading Principles of America (17 Oct 1787)
St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)
James Madison – Philadelphia Convention (23 Aug 1787)
George Mason – Philadelphia Convention (18 Aug 1787)
George Mason – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)
Episode – Why the Founders Warned Against Standing Armies
George Mason – Philadelphia Convention (14 Sept 1787)
Gen. Samuel Thompson – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (23 Jan 1788)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 29 (10 Jan 1788)
Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Joseph Priestly (19 June 1802)
James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)
Tench Coxe – An American Citizen: An Examination of the Constitution of the United States IV (21 Oct 1788)
Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (14 June 1788)
James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (16 June 1788)
James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (11 Dec 1787)
James Monroe – Observations on the Constitution (25 May 1788)
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Jan 8, 2024 • 32min
Nullify the Fed: Big Steps in 2024?
The federal reserve is not going to end itself. And Congress will never cut off its money printer. It’s going to take big steps by the states – and human action by the people themselves – to put the central bank where it belongs, in the dustbin of history.
Path to Liberty: January 8, 2024
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Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)
James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788)
James Madison – Federalist 46 (29 Jan 1788)
Episode – Nullify the Fed
New Hampshire HB1674 legal tender
Ending the Federal Reserve from the Bottom Up
Missouri SB735
Indiana – Legal Tender HB1043
Florida – Legal Tender H697/S750
Indiana CBDC
Utah – CBDC HB164
Wisconsin – CBDC AB725
South Carolina – CBDC S861
Missouri – CBDC SB826
Tennessee HB1481/SB311
Alaska HB3
South Carolina H3080
Oklahoma SB1507
Oklahoma – Depository SB1351
Tennessee – Depository SB1150
North Carolina – Study H721
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Jan 5, 2024 • 16min
You’ve Been Lied To
We’ve been told a lot of lies, but few have caused more damage to liberty than the one about how we’re supposed to respond to unconstitutional federal acts – usurpations of power.
Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: January 5, 2024
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Lysander Spooner – A Defense for Fugitive Slaves (1850)
Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolutions (29 May 1765)
Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government
Episode – That Which is Not Law Ought Not to be Obeyed
Archibald Maclaine – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (28 July 1788)
Gouverneur Morris – Philadelphia Convention (11 July 1787)
St. George Tucker
Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia (1784)
Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Samuel Adams (5 Oct 1787)
Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (Before 4 Oct 1798)
Lysander Spooner – An Essay on the Trial by Jury (1852)
State of the Nullification Movement Report 2023
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Jan 3, 2024 • 27min
We Have it in our Power to Begin the World Over Again
The founders and old revolutionaries left us a ton of advice and strategy on how to keep government in check. It won’t be quick or easy, but as Thomas Paine put it in Common Sense, “We have it in our power to begin the world over again”
Path to Liberty: January 3, 2024
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Oliver Ellsworth – Connecticut Ratifying Convention (7 Jan 1788)
Thomas Jefferson – Kentucky Resolutions (10 Nov 1798)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 78 (28 May 1788)
James Otis, Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)
John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)
John Dickinson – Fabius IV (19 Apr 1788)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 33 (3 Jan 1788)
James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (29 July 1788)
Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (before 4 Oct 1798)
James Madison – Federalist 46 (29 Jan 1788)
James Otis, Jr. (11 Jan 1762)
John Dickinson – Broadside against the Stamp Act (1765)
James Otis, Jr. – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Lafayette (2 Apr 1790)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Rev. Charles Clay (27 Jan 1790)
Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)
Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part II (1792)
State of the Nullification Movement Report 2023
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Dec 15, 2023 • 29min
Bill of Rights: Unnecessary and Dangerous?
During the ratification debates, Federalists repeatedly warned that adding a bill of rights would be unnecessary – and even dangerous. Learn what they had to say – where they made good points – and missed the mark too.
Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: December 15, 2023
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Federalists and Antifederalists Debate a Bill of Rights
James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 Oct 1787)
Melancton Smith’s notes of the Confederation Congress (27 Sept 1787)
John Hancock – Massachusetts Ratifying Convention (6 Feb 1788)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Edward Carrington (27 May 1788)
Episode – Bill of Rights: The Untold Story of Why it Exists
Roger Sherman – A Countryman II (22 Nov 1787)
James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (17 Oct 1788)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 25 (21 Dec 1787)
James Wilson – State house yard speech (6 Oct 1787)
Noah Webster – A Citizen of America (17 Oct 1787)
Charles Pinckney – Speech in South Carolina House of Representatives (18 Jan 1788)
Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)
James Wilson – Pennsylvania Ratifying Convention (28 Nov 1787)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 84 (16 July 1788)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (20 Dec 1787)
Thomas Jefferson – Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (15 Dec 1791)
Episode – Bill of Rights: Most Important Amendment?
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Dec 13, 2023 • 38min
Tis the Season. For Nullification.
Nullification Season 2024 starts now. Following the advice and strategy of the Founders, the people and the states can take action to reject, resist and nullify federal programs in practice and effect.
Path to Liberty: December 13, 2023
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Roger Sherman (8 Dec 1787)
James Madison – Federalist 46 (29 Jan 1788)
Alexander Hamilton – Federalist 28 (28 Dec 1787)
South Carolina CBDC
Missouri CBDC
Wisconsin CBDC
Ohio SAPA
Missouri Legal Tender
Florida Legal Tender
House
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New Hampshire CDC
South Carolina – Defend the Guard
Episode – Defend the Guard: Support the Constitution, Resist the Empire
Missouri – Raw Milk
Wisconsin – Raw Milk
New Hampshire Firearm Purchaser’s Privacy Act
State of the Nullification Movement Report 2023
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Dec 12, 2023 • 42min
Blueprint: Rhetoric, Resistance and the Revolution
When Founders like Madison, Jefferson, Sherman, Iredell and others told us to use non-compliance and other forms of resistance to keep government in check – they were following the same blueprint that was used in the American Revolution.
Path to Liberty: December 11, 2023
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The Message of the Farmer Letters
Blueprint: Rhetoric and Resistance Against the Townshend Acts
James Otis, Jr – Speech Against the Writs of Assistance (24 Feb 1761)
Roger Sherman (8 Dec 1787)
James Madison – Federalist 46 (29 Jan 1788)
Patrick Henry – Virginia Resolves (29 May 1765)
John Dickinson – Broadside against the Stamp Act (1765)
Episode – The Peoples’ Nullification of the Stamp Act
Quartering Act of 1765
Virginia Association (17 May 1769)
Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)
Tea Act
Maharrey – “Solemn League and Covenant” Published
Episode – Blueprint for Liberty: The Suffolk Resolves of 1774
Maharrey – Suffolk Resolves Calling for Non-Compliance and Resistance to British Acts
Maharrey – Continental Congress Adopts Declaration of Colonial Rights
Maharrey – First Continental Congress Passes the Continental Association
Episode – It Was Gun Control: What Started the War for Independence
Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms (6 Jul 1775)
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