Blueprint for Liberty

The Founding Fathers warned that democracy creates turbulence, chaos, and ultimately tyranny. They rejected democracy, and instead established a Republic (rule by law). This class exposes the deadly lie that democracy equals liberty, shows how it leads to socialism and oligarchy, and arms you with the truth — recognizing that real freedom is only possible when government is properly limited.

The Constitution is not a blank check; it’s a binding contract. The federal government’s powers are enumerated, listed, and defined. If it’s not written, it’s forbidden. As this class highlights, Jefferson, Madison, and Tucker testified that the federal government has no authority to legislate outside the list. We must reclaim the forgotten tool of nullification, the lawful and constitutional remedy against federal usurpation.

Tyranny — or a “boundless field of power,” as Jefferson called it — grows the moment government steps beyond its boundaries. This class dismantles the lie that the Supremacy Clause or the General Welfare Clause grants the federal government carte blanche power. Instead, you’ll see how the Founders drew bright lines around federal power and how our refusal to enforce those constitutional limitations has birthed today’s administrative state.

In this class, we finish tackling the most abused clauses in the Constitution: the Necessary and Proper Clause, Commerce Clause, and treaty powers. Politicians and judges wield them as a hammer to crush liberty, but the Founders insisted they were tightly confined tools, not blank checks. We expose the modern frauds and highlight Jefferson’s “rightful remedy” — nullification.

Liberty cannot survive without self-government and moral restraint. Here we examine how Madison, Jefferson, and even Wisconsin legislators used nullification and interposition to resist federal overreach — including slavery laws. This class shows why true patriots must once again revive these forgotten checks, using state and local authority to block unconstitutional edicts.

Sound money is liberty’s lifeblood. The Founders prescribed gold and silver coin — not fiat paper from the Federal Reserve. This class reveals how abandoning constitutional money has fueled war, debt, and tyranny. Jefferson warned that paper money is “the ghost of money”; Madison called it “pestilent.” We will chart the path back to honest money and financial sovereignty.

This class defines and explores protectionism. Washington, Hamilton, and Jefferson all endorsed tariffs to secure independence and shield our economy from foreign manipulation. This class traces the history of tariffs as a constitutional, moral, and effective alternative to direct income taxes. We expose the betrayal of the forgotten (yet highly consequential) Trade Agreements Act of 1934 and revive the Founders’ vision for economic independence.

Globalism has weaponized “free trade” into a pincer movement against sovereignty. Globalist trade schemes, such as GATT, WTO, NAFTA, and the USMCA, are nothing less than steps toward an economic one-world government. This class draws from U.S. Senator George Malone’s prophetic warnings to show how Congress surrendered its trade powers, paving the way for supranational rule. The remedy? Local activism, constitutionalists in office, and a resolute “Amexit” from globalist schemes.

The Founders never intended presidents to wage endless wars. Article I, Section 8 places war-making powers squarely in Congress, because they knew the executive is most prone to war. Madison thundered that the executive “is the branch most interested in war, and most prone to it.” This lecture exposes unconstitutional wars, dismantles the myth of “police actions,” and calls us back to noninterventionism and only fighting wars declared by Congress, originally representing the interests of the people and the states.

This class covers the constitutional role of state militias as the first line of defense against foreign invasion and domestic tyranny. It emphasizes that Congress, not the president, has the power to call forth the militias, and only under three limited circumstances: executing the laws of the Union, suppressing insurrections, and repelling invasions. The lesson shows how the Framers intended militias — organized, armed, and trained by the states themselves — to be a bulwark of liberty, not standing armies at the president’s disposal.