History - Past and Perspective
Making Government Obey

Making Government Obey

Government increasingly does what it wants. There are two main ways to rein it in. History says only one method will work. ...
Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
Article audio sponsored by The John Birch Society

“For it had come about that the tyranny obliterated the Constitution of Solon by disuse.” — Aristotle, Athenian Constitution, Book XXII

These United States of America are at a critical crossroads in our history. We must now decide whether we will walk the path of formerly free societies and allow tyrants to rob us of what is left of our liberty, or whether we’ll stand up to the statists and restore our Constitution and reclaim the fundamental rights it was written to protect.

Among those who profess to be friends of the Constitution, two main solutions to the problem facing us have been proposed, solutions that are diametrically opposed: On one side you have an unlikely coalition of progressives, socialists, cultural Marxists, and conservatives who recommend calling for a “convention of the states” using Article V as the vehicle for forcing our Constitution to fit their idea of good government, whether it be through a “balanced budget amendment” or the outlawing of private firearm ownership.

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