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Executive tyranny: how freedom was lost

Feb 15, 2019 by Dr. Joel McDurmon 4 Comments

There is certainly no limit to the tyranny of an Executive who has both the ambition and opportunity. There is certainly enough to show how a once freer America has been subdued. This has come primarily through three key Executive powers in this country: the Treaty-making power, the abuse of executive orders, and the ascendancy of government-by-emergency.

Filed Under: American History, Articles, County Rights Project, Ethics, Featured, Government, History, Law, Politicians, Politics, War Tagged With: Agenda 21, arms control, bill clinton, emergency, emergency powers, executive branch, executive order, fdr, gun control, national emergeny, president, roosevelt, treaty, UN, United Nations

How freedom was lost: a tale of two rebellions

Sep 14, 2017 by Dr. Joel McDurmon 3 Comments

Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 9: National Defense 9.2.a. How Freedom Was Lost (A Tale of Two Rebellions) In regard to original intent, a mere Amendment would not be enough to withstand the military powers its larger brother, the Constitution itself, gave to the new central government. This problem is best illustrated […]

Filed Under: American History, Articles, County Rights Project, Economics, Ethics, Featured, Government, History, Law, Politicians, Politics, War Tagged With: alexander hamilton, bailouts, bank bailouts, george washington, inflation, John Hancock, militia, shays' rebellion, sin tax, whisky rebellion

War and the military: how freedom was lost (the beginnings)

Sep 13, 2017 by Dr. Joel McDurmon 13 Comments

Restoring America One County at a Time Chapter 9: National Defense 9.2. How Freedom Was Lost The destruction of the early Puritan-American views of the military, of voluntary militias, etc., as described previously, began with the first skirmish of the first world war—not World War I, mind you, but what was perhaps the first true […]

Filed Under: American History, Articles, County Rights Project, Ethics, Featured, Government, History, Law, Politicians, Politics, War Tagged With: antifederalists, Benjamin Workman, Blackstone's Commentaries, Elbridge Gerry, French and Indian War, george washington, Jumonville, Ohio Company, Philadelphiensis, Robert Dinwiddie, Second Amendment, Seven Years' War, St. George Tucker, Tanaghrisson

Judicial tyranny in America

Jun 9, 2017 by Dr. Joel McDurmon 7 Comments

Restoring America One County at a Time 8. Courts 8.2 Judicial Tyranny in America The understanding of how American freedom was lost in and through the judiciary should already be visible from our discussions of previous topics. We have seen how the John Marshall courts energized and applied the centralizing effects of the Constitution and […]

Filed Under: American History, Articles, County Rights Project, Ethics, Featured, Government, History, Law, Politicians, Politics Tagged With: alexander hamilton, common law, Federalist Party, george washington, john marshall, judicial tyranny, Louis Brandeis, Marbury v madison, mcculloch v maryland, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Raoul Berger, thomas jefferson, William Johnson

Socialism IS mob violence

Dec 8, 2016 by Dr. Joel McDurmon 26 Comments

It seems to be little more than casual news when riots break out in Athens, Paris, London, or some other socialist haven. Greeks riot over austerity; we huff. Francs mob over retirement age; we chuckle. Most recently, London students riot over the threat of higher tuition; we snore. We snore right through the glass breaking […]

Filed Under: American History, Articles, Economics, Ethics, Featured, Government, History, Politicians, Politics Tagged With: austerity, greece riots, sarkozy, socialism, student riots, thomas jefferson, union riots

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