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Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Michael Boldin covers the original constitution, principles of the revolution, and strategy – all with an eye on advancing liberty.
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Jun 18, 2025 • 33min
War Power Showdown: James Madison vs the Executive Branch
There is no situation – ever – where the President can unilaterally take the United States to war. No emergency. No exception. No loophole. James Madison made this absolutely clear, again and again. And when he became president, he followed that rule to the letter – not once, but twice – in the heat of war. In this episode: the father of the Constitution vs the modern myth of unilateral executive war power.
Path to Liberty: June 18, 2025
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Letter to Thomas Jefferson (2 Apr 1798)
Helvidius No. 4 (14 Sept 1793)
Helvidius No. 1 (24 Aug 1793)
Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)
Episode – The “Declare War” Lie: What the Founders and Constitution REALLY Said
Alexander Hamilton – Letter to James McHenry (17 May 1798)
James McHenry – Letter to John Adams (18 May 1798)
Thomas Jefferson – Notes on a Cabinet Meeting (15 May 1801)
The Big Lie: Jefferson and War with the Barbary States
Helvidius No. 2 (31 Aug 1793)
Maharrey – War Powers: The True History of James Madison, the Constitution and the War of 1812
Special Message to Congress (1 June 1812)
An Act for the Protection of the Commerce of the US against the Algerine Cruisers (3 Mar 1815)
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Jun 13, 2025 • 19min
No Constitution Can Ever Fix This
Benjamin Franklin warned, “This can only end in despotism.” He knew that when the people themselves become corrupt, liberty doesn’t stand a chance. He wasn’t alone – founders and the great thinkers they learned from saw it over and over again: no matter the system, no matter the laws, once the people decay, tyranny follows. Guaranteed. And today, we’re on that same path – not because we’re being forced, but because we’ve chosen it. This episode is about the one corruption no constitution can fix: the corruption of the people themselves.
Path to Liberty: June 13, 2025
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Benjamin Franklin – Letter To The Abbés Chalet And Arnaud (17 Apr 1787)
James Madison – Virginia Ratifying Convention (20 June 1788)
Thomas Jefferson – Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIX (1784)
Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)
John Adams – Letter to the Officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the Militia of Massachusetts (11 Oct 1798)
Samuel Adams – Valerius Poplicola, Boston Gazette (5 Oct 1772)
John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. XI (1767)
The Works of Tacitus, vol. 1 – Gordon’s Discourses, Annals (Books 1-3)
Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy (1513)
Thomas Gordon – Works of Sallust (1744)
John Dickinson – Fabius IV (19 Apr 1788)
Samuel Adams – Candidus, Boston Gazette (14 Oct 1771)
Benjamin Franklin – Philadelphia Convention (17 Sept 1787)
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Jun 11, 2025 • 25min
The Day Rebellion Became Law: June 12, 1776
On June 12, 1776, Virginia made rebellion law. They didn’t ask for permission – they said take it, whether government likes it or not. In this episode, we’re digging into a forgotten founding document: the Virginia Declaration of Rights – where power comes from, why governments exist, and what the people have the right to do when it all goes off the rails.
Path to Liberty: June 11, 2025
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Maharrey – Setting a Foundation: The Virginia Declaration of Rights
Preamble and Resolution of the Virginia Convention (15 May 1776)
Episode: The Forgotten Resolutions That Actually Started Independence
Virginia Declaration of Rights (12 June 1776)
Declaration of Independence (1776)
John Locke – Two Treatises (1689)
Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui – The Principles of Natural and Politic Law (1747)
Montesquieu – The Spirit of Laws (1748)
Kevin Gutzman – Virginia Declaration of Rights by George Mason
Henry Knox – Letter to George Washington (18 Jan 1790)
Episode – Militia vs Standing Army: The Founders’ View
Bob Ruppert – George Mason: Author of Rights
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Augustus Elias Brevoort Woodward (3 Apr 1825)
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Jun 6, 2025 • 21min
National Debt: WEAPON to Destroy Freedom Exposed
Again and again, the leading minds of the American founding warned that debt would lead to corruption, war, tyranny – and collapse. Today, that curse is bigger than ever – and it’s still growing. In this episode, you’ll hear what the founders actually said – warnings we can’t afford to ignore any longer.
Path to Liberty: June 6, 2025
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Brutus VIII (10 Jan 1788)
James Otis, Jr. – Considerations on Behalf of the Colonists. In a Letter to a Noble Lord (4 Sept 1765)
George Washington – Fifth Annual Message to Congress (3 Dec 1793)
Tench Coxe – An American Citizen: An Examination of the Constitution of the United States IV (21 Oct 1788)
Thomas Gordon – Works of Sallust (1744)
John Taylor of Caroline – An Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States (1814)
Benjamin Rush – Letter to James Madison (27 Feb 1790)
Mercy Otis Warren – History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution vol. 2
Destutt de Tracy – A Treatise on Political Economy, Jefferson Translation (1816)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Nathaniel Macon (19 Aug 1821)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to George Washington (9 Sept 1792)
James Madison – Political Observations (20 Apr 1795)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Destutt de Tracy (26 Dec 1820)
George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)
St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to John Taylor (28 May 1816)
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Jun 4, 2025 • 29min
The Forgotten Resolutions That Actually Started Independence
On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee stood before the Continental Congress with a resolution declaring that the united colonies were free and independent states, and that all political connection between them and Great Britain was “totally dissolved.” It also called for foreign alliances and a plan that would become the Articles of Confederation. The Lee Resolution was the culmination of a series of revolutionary measures that had already begun secession from the British Empire. This is the story behind the Declaration of Independence that most people never learn about.
Path to Liberty: June 4, 2025
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May Resolution – Second Continental Congress (10 May 1776)
NCPedia – The Halifax Resolves
Episode – First for Independence: The Halifax Resolves of 1776
John Penn – Letter to John Adams (17 Apr 1776)
Resolutions of the Virginia Convention Calling for Independence (15 May 1776)
Richard Henry Lee – Letter to John Adams (18 May 1776)
Preamble to Resolution on Independent Governments (15 May 1776)
John Adams – Letter to James Warren (15 May 1776)
Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Thomas Ludwell Lee (27 May 1776)
John Adams – Letter to Richard Henry Lee (4 June 1776)
Resolution of Richard Henry Lee – Journals of the Continental Congress (7 June 1776)
Edward Rutledge – Letter to John Jay (8 June 1776)
Thomas Jefferson – Notes of Proceedings in the Continental Congress (8 June 1776)
Journal of the Continental Congress (10 June 1776)
Journal of the Continental Congress (11 June 1776)
Journal of the Continental Congress (12 June 1776)
John Adams – Letter to Abigail Adams (3 July 1776)
John Adams – 2nd Letter to Abigail Adams (3 July 1776)
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May 30, 2025 • 23min
TREASON: How Patrick Henry Ignited the Revolution
In 1765, after the British passed the Stamp Act, a 29-year-old freshman legislator in Virginia named Patrick Henry pushed back – hard. His Virginia Resolves didn’t just protest a tax; they rejected Parliament’s power outright and called for resistance. “If this be treason…” he thundered in support of them. When government tried to silence the message, Henry stood firm – and the other colonies joined in, publishing every single word. On this episode, learn the defiance, the suppression, and the spark that lit the fuse.
Path to Liberty: May 30, 2025
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Wolverton – Patrick Henry: “If This Be Treason!”
Patrick Henry’s Resolutions Against the Stamp Act
William Wirt – Sketches of the Life and Character of Patrick Henry (1817)
Thomas Jefferson – Notes on Patrick Henry (Before 12 Apr 1812)
Rhode Island Stamp Act Resolves (15 Sept 1765)
William Wirt – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (24 July 1815)
Boldin – Patrick Henry’s Virginia Resolves: Bedrock Principles of American Liberty
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May 28, 2025 • 22min
Judicial TYRANNY: Jefferson’s Four Forgotten Warnings
Thomas Jefferson sounded the alarm over the greatest threat to the Constitution and your liberty: the federal judiciary. On this episode, learn his four warnings – consolidation is death to freedom, judges are just as corrupt and power-hungry as any politician, the courts drive centralization, and judicial supremacy turns a “land of the free” into an oligarchy ruled by black robes.
Path to Liberty: May 28, 2025
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Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Joseph C. Cabell
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Gideon Granger (13 Aug 1800)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to James Madison (20 Dec 1787)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to William Charles Jarvis (28 Sept 1820)
Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 47 (7 Oct 1721)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to the Abbe Arnoux (19 July 1789)
EPISODE – Jury Nullification: The People’s Secret Weapon Against Tyranny
Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 33 (17 June 1721)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Nathaniel Macon (23 Nov 1821)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Thomas Ritchie (25 Dec 1820)
Thomas Jefferson – to William Johnson (4 Mar 1823)
Thomas Jefferson – Draft for the Kentucky Resolutions (Before 4 Oct 1798)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Spencer Roane (6 Sept 1819)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Spencer Roane (9 Mar 1821)
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May 23, 2025 • 38min
BLASTING Hamilton’s National Bank: John Taylor’s Forgotten Takedown
In 1794, John Taylor of Caroline launched a direct assault on Alexander Hamilton’s entire financial regime – the national bank, the debt, the funding system, the whole machine. He called it a “political papacy,” a new aristocracy built on paper money, perpetual debt, and lawless power. On this episode, learn about Taylor’s forgotten takedown of the system that laid the foundation for the largest government in history.
Path to Liberty: May 23, 2025
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John Taylor – Letter to George Washington (14 Jan 1794)
John Taylor – An enquiry into the principles and tendency of certain public measures (1794)
Gordon S. Wood – Empire of Liberty
NPS – First Bank of the United States
Alexander Hamilton – Report on a National Bank (13 Dec 1790)
St. Louis Fed – A Chapter in the History of Central Banking
Alexander Hamilton – Letter to Robert Morris (30 Apr 1781)
Thomas Jefferson – Letter to George Washington (9 Sept 1792)
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May 21, 2025 • 19min
“For Your Safety” – The Lie That Destroys Liberty
From ancient empires to modern regimes, the story never changes: every government knows nothing expands power faster than fear. Fear is the tool, the trigger, the weapon – and it’s always the excuse for crushing liberty. In this episode, you’ll hear warnings from Founders, revolutionaries, and the great thinkers they learned from about how fear and the promise of safety are used to justify power, silence dissent, and lay the groundwork for oppression.
Path to Liberty: May 21, 2025
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Montesquieu – The Spirit of Laws (1748)
Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)
Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 15 (4 Feb 1721)
Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1683)
James Madison – Philadelphia Convention (29 June 1787)
Plato – The Republic, Jowett’s Translation (400-350 BC)
Aristotle – The Politics Vol. 1, Jowett’s Translation (335-323 BC)
Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 7 (17 Dec 1720)
John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. 12 (1767)
James Madison – Letter to Thomas Jefferson (13 May 1798)
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May 16, 2025 • 18min
Law as a Weapon: How Tyrants Say it’s “Legal” to Crush You
The biggest crimes against liberty aren’t committed in the shadows – they happen in broad daylight, all dressed up as “law,” “justice,” and the “public good.” When the law itself becomes a weapon, no one is safe. In this episode, we expose the warnings we’ve ignored for far too long and reveal how tyranny hides behind the mask of legality.
Path to Liberty: May 16, 2025
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John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No. VI (1767)
Federal Farmer No. IV (12 Oct 1787)
Niccolò Machiavelli – The Prince (1513)
John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters No. 9 (31 Dec 1720)
John Trenchard – Cato’s Letters No. 13 (21 Jan 1721)
Episode – Necessary and Proper: The Big Lie That Unleashed Big Government
Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1683)
James Otis, Jr. – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)
James Iredell – North Carolina Ratifying Convention (30 July 1788)
Thomas Gordon – Cato’s Letters No. 57 (16 Dec 1721)
Jean Barbeyrac – Grotius – The Rights of War and Peace vol. 2 (1724)
Cicero – On Moral Duties/De Officiis (44 BC)
Episode – Lysander Spooner: Radical Truths on Tyranny and the Constitution
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