The Founders on Power: 8 Essential Principles for a FREE Society

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

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1. POWER FLOWS FROM THE PEOPLE

George Mason – Virginia Declaration of Rights (12 June 1776)

Robert Livingston – New York Ratifying Convention (19 June 1788)

2. POWER MUST HAVE DEFINED LIMITS

Richard Henry Lee – Letter to Patrick Henry (28 May 1789)

Maryland Farmer No. 3. Part 1 (7 Mar 1788)

Brutus IV (29 Nov 1787)

3. POWER NOT GIVEN IS RETAINED

George Nicholas – Virginia Ratifying Convention (10 June 1788)

Edmund Randolph – Virginia Ratifying Convention (21 June 1788)

4. POWER ALWAYS SEEKS TO GROW

Abigail Adams – Letter to John Adams (27 Nov 1775)

Federal Farmer No. IV (12 Oct 1787)

Samuel Adams – Letter to James Warren (24 Oct 1780)

5. ARBITRARY POWER IS TYRANNY

Thomas Paine – Rights of Man, Part II (1792)

John Locke – Chapter 18 – Tyranny

St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)

6. POWER TO DO GOOD IS THE POWER TO DO EVIL

John Jay – A Citizen of New York (15 Apr 1788)

Oliver Ellsworth – A Landholder III (19 Nov 1787)

7. CONSOLIDATION IS TYRANNY

Patrick Henry – Virginia Ratifying Convention (9 June 1788)

Thomas Jefferson – Letter to Joseph C. Cabell (2 Feb 1816)

8. POWER DOESN’T LIMIT ITSELF

Episode – Constitution 101: Enforcement Mechanism

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