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2 months after Lexington and concord - and the shot heard round the world - General Thomas Gage made an offer he thought the revolutionaries couldn’t refuse.

Relying on government to limit its own power is a really bad strategy for liberty. Ultimately, it’s up to us to defend our constitution and our liberty whether the government people want us to or not.

1. Individual, natural right of self defense. 2. In defense of liberty, the union, and the states. 3. To prevent the "greatest threat to liberty" - large standing armies.

Thomas Jefferson called the 10th Amendment the "foundation of the Constitution," because it tells us how to read the entire document. But he was far from alone. Even before the 10th was ever drafted, leading federalists - like James Wilson - repeatedly told us the constitution was written under this same structure.

A lot of people like to call the 2nd Amendment their "gun permit." But not one single founder referred to things this way - and for good reason.

As Mercy Otis Warren Put it - “resist the first approaches of tyranny.”

In fact, most federal agencies, most federal programs, most federal laws - shouldn’t even exist in the first place.

But if we adopted the view of James Madison - we'd see this as a pretty huge understatement. Taxation is actually one of the primary tools of oppression.

I know this should be obvious. But trying to get federal politicians and federal judges to limit the power of the federal government isn’t just bad strategy - it’s dangerous to the Constitution and liberty. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tenth Amendment Center (@tenthamendmentcenter)

Zero. That's the number of federal gun control measures that are authorized by the Constitution.