Thomas Jefferson and James Madison recognized the price for safety can include loss of personal freedom, expansion of presidential power, loss of local control of police and violation of the principle of subsidiarity, writes Judge Andrew Napolitano.
Taking a cue from the Declaration of Independence, M. Reza Behnam submits facts “to a candid world” that impel the dissolution of a destructive liaison.
Andrew P. Napolitano on the Trump IRS’ announcement that it would let houses of worship skirt a federal tax-exemption law restricting political endorsements.
Orlando Reade discusses the influence of John Milton’s 17th century epic poem on revolutionary thinkers and grapples with the moral gray area that exists in revolutions.
There were two other original sins, rarely mentioned, that drove the colonial ruling class to separate from their country and support a war for independence, writes Ace Thelin.
The former American republic is now an empire, the type of government from which Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues violently seceded, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Andrew P. Napolitano examines the moral and historical errors in the argument that less freedom produces more safety.
If the feds can characterize an unarmed assemblage of protesters as an invasion, Andrew P. Napolitano asks whose freedoms are safe.
Imagine the U.S. government requiring public speech or enforcing public silence in return for the benefits it gives out, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. Well, it is happening under our noses today.
Ever since waging the first successful anti-imperialist revolution in 1804, the Caribbean nation that overthrew slavery has been hit with crippling debt, coups and foreign meddling.