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Michael Maharrey serves as the national communications director for the Tenth Amendment Center, and is the author of several books on the Constitution and liberty. His weekly podcast, Thoughts from Maharrey Head, covers a wide range of subjects, but focuses primarily on constitutional issues and political decentralization. "10 Minutes Closer to Freedom!" He also dabbles in electronic music with some goth and jazz influences. You can email Michael at me (at) michaelmaharrey (dot) com
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The American Revolution: What REALLY sparked the fight? This episode explores an almost totally forgotten declaration written by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson in 1775. The Declaration of the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms is an incredibly important document revealing the colonists’ motivations beyond what history books tell you. Path …
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Honesty in politics? Yeah, we know – sounds impossible. But check out this episode and join us on a true path to liberty. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: June 28, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Thomas Lee…
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The American Revolution wasn’t just about throwing off a king. It was built on a radical idea: that the people have the right to resist and nullify usurpations of power by any government. Today, we’ll dive deep into this secret weapon for liberty from the founding fathers – something they not only considered a right, but a duty. Path to Liberty: Ju…
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Thomas Jefferson called the 10th Amendment the “foundation of the Constitution” for a reason. It enshrines many of the very principles that sparked the American Revolution – principles that even shaped his words in the Declaration of Independence! In this episode, we’ll dive into these Top 5 revolutionary ideas that have been ignored for far too lo…
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Shays’ Rebellion was repeatedly cited by Federalists as a primary reason to replace the Articles of Confederation with a Constitution with a stronger central government. But what if the threat was exaggerated? Anti-Federalists sure thought so. In this episode, we’ll dive into the debate and explore James Madison’s surprising later admission about t…
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Was the Constitution a recipe for tyranny? That’s what Patrick Henry, Brutus, Federal Farmer and many other Anti-Federalists feared. In this episode, we’ll explore three of their top arguments against ratification and their warnings about centralized power as a massive threat to liberty. Path to Liberty: June 19, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | P…
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Forget everything the government-run schools taught you about the “pursuit of happiness.” The Founders had a far more radical understanding – something most history lessons miss or completely ignore. In this episode, we’ll unlock this message in the Declaration of Independence, the way the founders intended. Path to Liberty: June 17, 2024 Subscribe…
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The Founders knew that freedom can ONLY exist when power is kept under strict limits. Anything else is arbitrary power – how they defined tyranny. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: June 14, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives 1. POWER FLOWS …
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They don’t teach this in government-run schools. In this episode, we explore 8 foundational principles from the founders about the right to keep and bear arms that are almost totally ignored today. Path to Liberty: June 12, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC…
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Have you ever heard of Dr. Joseph Warren? He was a key figure in the American Revolution, a fiery orator who defied British tyranny, and the man who sent Paul Revere out on his famous Midnight Ride. This video dives into the incredible story of Joseph Warren, the “Pro Liberty, Anti-Empire” Founding “Grandfather” that history almost totally ignores.…
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The federal reserve is never going to end itself. And congress is not going to shut off its own private money printer. So it’s up to the people and the states – as the founders advised – to get the job done in support of the Constitution and liberty. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: June 7, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube M…
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Think all federal laws are supreme? Think again! In this episode, we’ll explore how the Founders told us the Constitution is what’s supreme – and everything else is a usurpation that’s NULL AND VOID. Path to Liberty: June 5, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TA…
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A lot of people in today’s liberty movement are totally wasting their time. They’re like a hamster on a wheel: running in place, getting nowhere. The problem is – they focus too much time, money and energy on elections as their primary – or only strategy for liberty. The Founders wouldn’t recognize this while living under the largest government in …
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Think you have financial privacy? Think again. Since Nixon, the US has increasingly turned banks and the entire financial industry into a massive surveillance network. This video dives deep into 5 of the major acts they’ve passed since 1970. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: May 31, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | St…
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Turns out the guy who said ‘Give me Liberty or give me death!’ wasn’t a big fan of a giant, centralized government. Today, on Patrick Henry’s birthday, let’s see why he’s one of the real OGs of the 10th Amendment. Path to Liberty: May 29, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW …
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Despite what supporters of the monster state want you to believe, there are times when states push back against federal power and the supremacy clause doesn’t even apply. Learn about this powerful 10th Amendment tool called anti-commandeering. Path to Liberty: May 27, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | R…
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This is an absolutely incredible story of resistance to federal power. Anthony Burns – born into slavery, escaped, captured – and the center of a massive standoff between people in Boston and the federal government. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: May 24, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | Mo…
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Imagine being a suspect for simply walking near a crime scene. That’s the reality of a mass, warrantless surveillance tool called a geofence warrant Path to Liberty: May 22, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Maharrey – The Dragnet State Jonath…
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Explore the 4 biggest threats to liberty as identified by the Founding Fathers, with quotes & analysis included. Learn how history can guide us in protecting our freedoms today. Path to Liberty: May 20, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives 4. IGN…
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Executive Order 6102 – learn the truth behind the gold confiscation order, and the fact that most Americans defied it. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: May 17, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Maharrey – Executive Order 6102: A Deep Dive…
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What does “liberty” truly mean? We explore 3 schools of thought, from Filmer’s “divine right” to Locke & the Founding Fathers’ individual rights. Plus, modern thinkers like Rothbard and more! Discover the historical roots of your freedom. Path to Liberty: May 15, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | …
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Do you ever wonder what the Constitution really means? This video will show you how to learn the Constitution the way the Founding Fathers told us to. We’ll explore a process called “originalism” to determine the original meaning of the Constitution’s clauses and phrases. Path to Liberty: May 13, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube …
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Gold and Silver, CBDC, Biometric Surveillance and 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy. We break down the bills and new laws & what they mean for YOU. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: May 10, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Roger Sherman (8 …
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They’re mostly ignored or forgotten today. But, to the founders, these five formed an international law and foreign policy pantheon. Path to Liberty: May 8, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Natelson – The ideas that formed the Constitution: V…
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No deal. That’s pretty much how North Carolina patriots responded to British Major General Henry Clinton’s proclamation condemning what he called their “wicked rebellion” along with his offer of amnesty for everyone, but two, in exchange for giving up their arms, and more. Path to Liberty: May 6, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube …
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George Washington asked his attorney general to give his opinion on whether he felt Alexander Hamilton’s Bank Bill was constitutional. The answer was a resounding no. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: May 3, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archiv…
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Tracing its roots back to John Locke, the Mayflower Compact – and even earlier – the “consent of the governed” was one of the most important principles in the Declaration of Independence, and was the foundation for the formation of the Constitution as well. But, as Lysander Spooner argued – the notion that “all the people” consent exists only in th…
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In the American system, the people of the several states are sovereign, meaning they hold final or ultimate authority. Power flows from them to the federal government, which merely serves as their agent. Path to Liberty: April 29, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: J…
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In his 1850 essay The Law, Bastiat railed against socialism, and argued that legitimate law isn’t just the will of politicians, but instead is based on protecting the natural rights of individuals. You can see inspiration in these views from Locke, Jefferson, Paine and more. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: April 26, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Sp…
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Mises Institute Senior Fellow Per Bylund joins Aaron to talk about his recent book, How to Think About the Economy: A Primer, as well as the connection between social media and democracy and the economics of AI. TakeHumanAction.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/misescaucus/message…
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George Washington: “It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.” Thomas Jefferson: “Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.” Path to Liberty: April 24, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINK…
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From Samuel Adams and Thomas Jefferson to Lysander Spooner – the notion that the people should submit until they can replace enough politicians to stop the government from doing what the government was never authorized to do in the first place – is only a guarantee that they’ll never stop, and it’ll keep getting worse. Path to Liberty: April 22, 20…
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Jefferson’s chilling warnings about unchecked fiat, paper money printing proved prophetic as the U.S. plunged into its first boom-bust economic crisis in the early 19th century. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: April 19, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN T…
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With some of his best satire and sharpest wit, Franklin told the British the top-20 ways their policies would bring their empire over the American colonies to an end. Much of it sounds pretty familiar to what we face today. Path to Liberty: April 17, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platform…
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86 years and a day before the “shot heard ’round the world” – the people of Boston and surrounding towns rose up and overthrew the royal governor in a dispute that started over tax resistance to arbitrary power. Path to Liberty: April 15, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW …
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April 12, 1776 – the first official action by one of the colonies in full support of declaring independence. The Halifax Resolves were also the first example of a colony-wide assembly admitting that reconciliation with the British was no longer an option. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: April 12, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Yo…
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Since 2011 – a combination of state laws and human action has built what is likely the most robust foundation for the advancement of gold and silver as money in the United Sates. Path to Liberty: April 10, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Ben…
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Supporting one version of an unconstitutional government program over another – because it seems to be the “least offensive” option – is not only what leading founders called a “fatal error,” but it also sets a precedent for more of the same, and worse. Path to Liberty: April 8, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Youtube Music | Stitcher |…
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Originally implemented by the IRS – gun-control advocates want to use “Merchant Category Codes” to track purchases of firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition. But the state-level 2nd Amendment Financial Privacy Act has shut those plans downs – at least for now. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: April 5, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Po…
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For more than a decade, starting in 2013, the Utah legislature has incrementally built some of the most robust privacy protections in the country with a step-by-step approach. Over that time, Utah chipped away at the surveillance state, passing at least eight separate laws limiting surveillance. Path to Liberty: April 3, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spo…
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Responding to the Coercive Acts of 1774 – the “Intolerable Acts” – the old revolutionaries were organized, coordinated – and very strategic in their approach. We’d do well to learn what they considered essential elements for success. Path to Liberty: April 1, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platfo…
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Consolidation – we were warned – would guarantee a destruction of liberty. But many founders seemed to believe they could pull off a “proper” or “partial” consolidation and not get a system of “unremitted despotism.” Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: March 29, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More P…
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In yet another example of the government rejecting founding principles by working to bring businesses under federal control, the DOJ and 16 state attorneys general accused Apple of violating Section 2 of the Sherman Act, a “law” allowing the government to intervene against companies said to be acting “in restraint of trade or commerce.” Path to Lib…
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Warning that some federalists were fakes who really wanted a totally consolidated system, Federal Farmer makes the case that too few representatives, coupled with a lack of clarity over the bounds of power, would lead to a system based on force rather than consent Path to Liberty: March 25, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitc…
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It’s a trap! – tacitly accepting a collectivist gun grabber view of the 2nd Amendment to oppose the Defend the Guard Act. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: March 22, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Defend the Guard: A Powerful Check on Unconsti…
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One of the most abused and misused clauses of the Constitution – and also one of the most ambiguous, even at the time of the founding – the so-called “sweeping clause.” Path to Liberty: March 20, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives Text of the Clause N…
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Born March 16, 1751 – the “father of the Constitution” had plenty to say about the system he was so influential in creating – and how to enforce it when the government gets out of line. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edition: March 15, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN …
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Racking up more wins for the constitution and liberty – the latest news from the 10th Amendment and nullification movement in the states. Path to Liberty: March 13, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC Show Archives James Otis Jr (11 Jan 1762) Alexander Hamilton – Fe…
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Federal Farmer warned that liberty under the constitution would depend primarily on the worst of all possible checks, “the prudence, wisdom and moderation of those who manage the affairs of government.” Path to Liberty: March 11, 2024 Subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Podbean | Google | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | More Platforms Here SHOW LINKS: JOIN TAC …
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January 8, 1790: George Washington delivered the first message to Congress on the state of the Union. No pomp, no long partisan clapping. and the shortest ever recited by a president. The speech – especially in comparison to what we get today – shows just how far modern presidents have strayed from the Constitution. Path to Liberty, Fast Friday Edi…
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