St. George Tucker

Read John C. Calhoun.

Read St. George Tucker on the Constitution.

And we could go down the line with other important figures in the, in the 19th, 18th, 19th century into the 20th century.

There's a lot there.

He just understood the mechanics of both human nature and power.

As St. George Tucker warned, the political elite...

The people who want to rule over you will gladly weaponize your trust in them to build the exact kind of tyranny that George Mason predicted.

Tucker put it like this.

He wrote, the request was violently opposed by the best and wisest men in the assembly.

It was, however, complied with by the votes of a majority.

And that one cowardly vote, it sealed their fate because as St. George Tucker warned, a power grab never ends with a single emergency.

It becomes the new baseline.

So it should be painfully obvious that things are much, much worse than what almost everyone tells us.

But as St. George Tucker reminded us in 1803, it's never really game over.

He said, "...the acquiescence of the people of a state under any usurped authority for any length of time can never deprive them of the right of resuming the sovereign power into their own hands." whenever they think fit or are able to do so, since that right is perfectly unalienable.

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