06/20/2026
⚠️ Congress was never the boss of the states
No authority to regulate
No power to interfere
“The congress possesses no power
to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns,
or police of any state.”
-St. George Tucker
06/20/2026
🇬🇧 18th-century England shaped the U.S. Constitution.
Classical learning, political decentralization, and fierce independence defined the era.
Those values - and skepticism of taxation - were baked into America’s founding. 👇
Insights into the Constitution from English Social History | Tenth Amendment Center
If you want to understand the Constitution, you should know something of the social context that produced it.
06/19/2026
When government exercises arbitrary power -
it is the RIGHT and the DUTY of the people themselves to declare those acts null and void.
That was Thomas Jefferson's 1774 precursor to the Declaration of Independence.
Null and Void: Thomas Jefferson's 1774 Radical Declaration | Path to Liberty Podcast
Two years before the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson penned a long and detailed list of grievances regarding British acts going back more than a century. He not only referred to them as a “nullity” but pointed out that “we declare them void.” Jefferson’s pamphlet, “A Summar...
06/19/2026
💣 Fear Feeds Despotism
Their grip depends on your hesitation.
Tyranny only stands when resistance is off the table.
Lose the fear - break their hold.
06/18/2026
STOLEN power. Not "grievances."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOsPy5fqaT8
And as Ethan Allen explained, a system of usurpation was the entire basis of independence
“USURPATION and injustice was the primary cause of the separation and revolt of the English American colonies from Great-Britain; and this was also their grand reason and justification for so doing; and con∣sequently the ground of their right to independency.”