Ignorance vs. Freedom: Reclaim the Constitution and Liberty
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free,” wrote Thomas Jefferson, “it expects what never was and never will be.”
That’s why the TAC focuses on educating people about the original meaning of the Constitution, the foundational principles of liberty, and the American Revolution.
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For far too long politicians, bureaucrats, judges, law professors, and chattering pundits have told us how the Constitution should work – instead of the other way around. The political class has “interpreted” the rules. And they’ve interpreted them to give themselves more and more power over all of us.
They teach us from day one that the only way to keep the government in check is to convince the government to keep itself in check.
Jefferson warned us how that would play out, noting that allowing the government to determine the extent of its own power would put the people of the several states “under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them”
After generations of this – just like Jefferson warned, we now have a federal government that claims the authority to do virtually anything and everything. Along the way, our liberties have been trashed. Today, the so-called “land of the free” labors under the largest government in history.
If we want to reclaim our freedom, something has to give. It’s time for “dis-interpretation.” It’s time for “we the people” to reclaim our own Constitution and our own liberty.
To do that, we have to look at the Constitution through the eyes of the generation who wrote and ratified it.
We’re have to follow Jefferson’s admonition and “carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or intended against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
And then we have to follow what the founders told us has to be done to keep the government in check when it refuses to follow the rules. Today, of course, that’s 24/7/365
James Madison told us that states and individuals should use a “refusal to cooperate with officers of the Union.”
James Iredell – one of the first Supreme Court Justices – told us that the ONLY way to deal with usurpations of power is through “the inherent right of the people to prevent its exercise.”
Not just a mere good idea – but the only way to deal with federal overreach.
And Jefferson said “a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy”
Also, not just a mere suggestion to try after everything else fails – but THE rightful remedy to all undelegated power.
This is the real Constitution that supporters of the monster state don’t want you to know about.
The one where the people of the states themselves determine the limits of federal power. The one where the people of the states themselves enforce the constitution through non-compliance and resistance. The one where no one who violates their oath of office is given support.
In other words, in the American political system, as originally conceived, the Tenth Amendment is always the right answer.
Thomas Jefferson was right. “knowledge is power…and ignorance is weakness.”
The truth is evident daily: government-run schools fail to teach the Constitution’s original meaning, the principles of liberty, or natural rights.
We’ve got a lot of work to do – but with your support, we’re building a strong foundation for today and the future.
Brick by brick. Person by person. State by state: For the constitution and liberty.
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