They call it “just this once.” But that’s how it always begins. One unconstitutional act becomes a precedent – and suddenly, lawless power becomes routine. From Tacitus to Paine, Dickinson to Washington, history has screamed the warning: precedent is how tyranny becomes law. In this episode, we trace the oldest trick in the tyrant’s playbook – and why free people must resist it before it’s too late.
Path to Liberty: April 25, 2025
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SHOW LINKS:
James Otis, Jr – Freeborn American (27 Apr 1767)
St. George Tucker – View of the Constitution of the United States (1803)
Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part the Second (1792)
John Dickinson – Broadside Against the Stamp act (1765)
Algernon Sidney – Discourses Concerning Government (1680)
Thomas Gordon – Works of Sallust (1744)
Niccolo Machiavelli – Discourses on Livy (1531)
John Locke – Two Treatises of Civil Government (1698)
George Washington – Farewell Address (19 Sept 1796)
Tacitus – Annals, Book 11, Chapter 24 (AD 115-117)
John Dickinson – Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania No VI (1767)
Thomas Paine – Rights of Man Part the Second (1792)
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