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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”

His name forever associated with partisan political trickery, unfortunately few people know much else about Elbridge Gerry. He was a leading revolutionary, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a highly influential figure at the Philadelphia convention, one of only 3 who didn't sign the Constitution, and the 5th Vice-President, serving under James Madison.

Government is waging a war on your liberty. And it’s not just happening when the team you don’t like is in power. This is how things have always been.

Getting from the largest government in history to a real “land of the free” is not going to happen through the ballot box.

Although we generally refer to that list of abuses in the Declaration of Independence as “grievances” - that’s not how they were described in the text. Instead, they were referred to as “usurpations,” or a theft of power from the people. Sounds familiar, doesn’t it?