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After watching Senator Paul's speech and becoming intrigued by the Madison line I began searching for the source which his notes did not provide. In my search I encountered dozens of articles citing the line, most attributed to Senator Paul. After a thorough search using google I could not locate the passage in question.….Continue
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Mandeville, LA - By Mike Church -"We are all [r]epublicans now." This is the Newsweek Magazine cover I hope to see someday but first we will need to educate many millions on just what [r]epublicanism is, why their Founding Parents said it was the best form of government and how they defined it. In this letter to John Taylor, Thomas Jefferson explains [r]epublicanism as he understands and promotes it. It is also enjoyable to read Jefferson's delight in Taylor's "pulverizing" ….Continue

Editors Note: This page represents the first of many to come that will feature Project '76 sight & sound content. Project '76 will, for the 1st time ever, take the written words of the 17th-19th century and present them in concise, entertaining audio & video formats that are portable & downloadable. Now you will be able to experience the great works in written, audio & video form on any device. You must be logged in as a member to download this content, take….Continue
Mandeville, LA - Mike Church's daily Pile of Prep, chock full of secession petition and other [r]epublican stories used to perform the Mike Church Show on Sirius/XM Patriot channel 125. "To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind; indeed the necessary effects of the ignorance and levity of the vulgar." - Edmund ….Continue

Mandeville, LA - Mike Church's daily Pile of Prep, chock full of Founding Fathers, Executive Order ned the tenuous reign of The Constitution sadness and other [r]epublican stories used to perform the Mike Church Show on Sirius/XM Patriot channel 125. "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to it's true principles." - Thomas Jefferson Incorporation Doctr….Continue

Mandeville, LA - Written by Mike Church - A recent temper tantrum made its way onto the editorial pages of the NY Times by Louis Michael Seidman, a man claiming to be a professor of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University titled "Let's Give Up on the Constitution". What Lincoln Killed Preview: President Jefferson Approves of the Northern States Seceding In this dystopian view of the founding of our current union turned mobocracy, Seidman points to Americans' alleged devoti….Continue

Mandeville, LA - The Founding Fathers Presidential mistake. "My Dear Sir, I am free to acknowledge that [the President's] Powers are full great, and greater than I was disposed to make them. Nor do I believe they would have been so great had not many of the members cast their eyes towards General Washington as President" - Pierce Butler Americans have recently declared the election of 2012 for the Presidency the"most important election of our lifetimes" and that is just the h….Continue

Mandeville, LA - (Thanks to The Imaginative Conservative for this repost of Prof Gutzman's essay) Kevin Gutzman was once and aspiring young author and not the Colossus of Constitution we know and admire today (see his James Madison & The Making of America"). Back in 1994, Gutzman was presented the opportunity to partially weigh in on the famous dialogue that embroiled the young "American Exceptionalism" movement begun by Professor Harry Jaffa. If you've ever wondered how L….Continue
OVERDUE: The Pentagon suspends joint US/Afghan operations-now, let's GET OUT of Afghanistan and the Middle East entirely TIC - Southern Gentlemen and Russell Kirk- Clyde Wilson on the true conservative and the features/traits he brings to our discourse (you won't find these on Fox News these days) If you are looking to cure your Constitution day hangover of ebullient federal gubbmint worship, try watching Tom Woods cut it all to ribbons CIA op Mic….Continue
Whatever happened to the vaunted, high brow, British culture? It was savagely corrupted and tolerates tragedies today it could not imagine 2 generations ago "Girls in outer space with lasers will prevail" - the legacy in letters of Gore Vidal to Bill Kaufmann Pat Buchanan: Time to come home from the Middle & Near East The filmmaker of the latest "we hate the prophet & his religion" movie is questioned about his movie-is this what we want in the "war on terror"!? Tom Wo….Continue

Mandeville, LA - There has been ample discussion the past 24 hours as there has been since the dawn of the "Religious Right" in the late 1970's over the purported "Faith Based Constitution" and "Christian Nation" that "HE" erected on these shores. I am guilty of this hyperbole and historic distortion my self, recorded in one passage of "The Road To Independence". Full disclosure, I am a practicing Catholic, a believer of Our Lord & Savior Jesus Christ and a minute by minut….Continue
Last Train to Brokesville: National debt to hit $16 trillion when the Dumbocrats gavel their convention open tomorrow, how fitting! 14 year old pens new book on the Constitution and understands the document more clearly than most adults Karl Rove suggests it is ok if Todd Akin, Senate Candidate & Republican in MO, is murdered, Rove , the Dark Lord continues his empire building inside the GOP WaPo has 8 questions for the Obama coronation this week and not one of them has to….Continue

This Day In Founders History – 22 August - On this day in 1777, the Continental Congress ordered the movement of militia in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware and Virginia to specific locations to await orders from General Washington when a letter from W. Bordley to William Paca, delegate from Maryland, was read, which stated: “Advice being received that the enemy’s fleet are in Chesapeake Bay between Rock Hall and the mouth of Patapsco river.….Continue
Remember when W 43 nominated Harriet Meiers to be a SCOTUS justice and the "right" howled their disapproval? Let's see if DeceptiCONIA balks at Ms Iraq War Condeleeza Rice Kevin Gutzman: The current SCOTUS is just like the last SCOTUS using case law and not The Ratifiers Intent to divine what is constitutional Governor Sara Palin, has she now become a liability for the GOP and GOP women, you know-woah-owwwww!? Brad Birzer: The four tenets of what Mike Church terms [r]epublican….Continue
THE JUBILEE OF THE CONSTITUTION: A DISCOURSE Delivered at the Request of THE NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY, in the City of New York, on Tuesday, the 30th of April, 1839; Being the Fiftieth Anniversary of the INAUGURATION OF GEORGE WASHINGTON as PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, on Thursday, the 30th of April, 1789. ________________________________________ Serit arbores, quae alteri seculo prosint - * * quid spectans, nisi etiam postera secula ad se pertinere? Ergo arbore….Continue
Mandeville, LA - The Question on a lot of people's minds is actually one that our revisionist history pretends to answer with impunity: Is secession legal? This book, written 7 years before the first ramblings of "indivisibility" would be heard from Jackson, along with the works of Taylor & St George's Tucker, the Of Presidencies of Jefferson and Madison answer unequivocally "yes!" As Rawle puts it herein... "It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principl….Continue
In long overdue rebuff to Federal powers the Catholic Church seems to be saying that Obama influenced health insurance mandates are a usurpation too far, we can only hope they are so animated against all the rest of the governments meddling in religious affairs Whopper: DeceptiCON Grand Poobah Bill Kristol's revision of history and what it says about the GOP and Romney's future Vicious: This sort of vicious personal attack that passes as a political editorial is what insures t….Continue

Mandeville, LA - New listeners to my radio show are always asking the same questions about the Most Hallowed Second Amendment: that Ted Nugent and the NRA, traveling in their WAYBAC machine witnessed Thomas Jefferson applying ink dry powder to the Constitution's second Amendment. Nugent asked: "So, this will cover every gun, in every city, state, county & federal land, forever until eternity, right?" Jefferson, awed by Nugent's stature and LaPierre's John marshal like gaze….Continue
So much for Newt's "The Last Conservative Standing" agitprop - Ron Paul draws THREE THOUSAND to rally in Ft. Worth TX - Story WITH photo evidence This video of a debate between an Cardinal and an A-theist is actually pretty good to watch and may surprise those who think the isshah of God's existence can't be rationally debated (see today's MCS for such an example) Black Eyed Peabrains: Newt proclaims he is THE Last Conservative Standing, gee I wonder what part of Ron Paul's de….Continue
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