DIA-Today: Democracy in America Today

We discuss Thomas Jefferson’s “Summary View of the Rights of British America” and the implications of Jefferson’s principles for the contemporary executive.

We continue our reflections on the key documents of the revolutionary era by looking at Sam Adams’s “The Rights of the Colonists” and the surprising connection between the Supreme Court’s recent ruling on President Trump’s tariffs and the colonial debates over the taxing power of Parliament.

We continue to explore the key documents of the revolutionary era by discussing the 1768 claim of the Massachusetts General Court that all government institutions are bound to follow fundamental law.

We begin our review of key documents of the American revolutionary era by discussing how notions of consent and lawful resistance from the Stamp Act Congress’s Declaration of Rights can inform our debate over resistance to ICE actions in Minnesota and beyond.

We discuss the recent military operation in Venezuela in light of the principles of the Monroe Doctrine and American First foreign policy, as summarized in Dr. Angelo Codevilla’s final book.