TENTH AMENDMENT: 🚨 "Emergency" power is tyranny. If power is unauthorized, it is lawless. If it is lawless, it is tyranny. And if it is tyranny, it must be resisted.

EMERGENCY POWER IS TYRANNY. 

🚨 "Emergency" power is tyranny.

If power is unauthorized, it is lawless.
If it is lawless, it is tyranny.
And if it is tyranny, it must be resisted.

Not tomorrow.
Not later.
Right. Now. pic.twitter.com/jtg5eFc8nM

— TenthAmendmentCenter (@TenthAmendment) April 28, 2025

Resist the first approaches of tyranny.  Mercy Otis Warren with that line wasn't just giving us a suggestion, she was giving us a rule for survival.  If you want Liberty to exist, you have to follow that approach.  You can't wait until it feels like tyranny and you can't wait until it's obviously tyranny, because by then you've probably already lost.  If power is not authorized under the Constitution, if power is not delegated, it's arbitrary power, and that's the kind of system that the founders and old revolutionaries well they fought a long bloody war to secede from it.  Not one step beyond the Constitution.  Not one exception.  Not one emergency power because all arbitrary power is usurpation, and all usurpation is tyranny, no matter who is exercising that power.  And no matter why it's being exercised, it must be rejected, not next year, not next month, not next week.  Today, not tomorrow.  Right now. 

from "Why Mercy Otis Warren Belongs in the Pantheon of America's Founders," Gary Galles, FEE, August 3, 2020, 

"After all, she has been called “The Conscience of the American Revolution,” both Thomas Jefferson and John Adams called her a genius, and Elizabeth Ellet described her as “the most remarkable woman who lived in the days of the American Revolution.” 

A short essay by Mercy Warren Otis, "Observations on the New Constitution, and on the Federal and State Conventions," Mercy Warren Otis, 1788.

MICHAEL BOLDIN: It was gun control. That's what kicked off the fighting April 19th, 1775 at Lexington and Concord, the start of the War for Independence.

Michael Boldin of the Tenth Amendment Center.  Here's the transcript of the full presentation.  More background on the battle at Lexington and Concord.

It was gun control.  That's what kicked off the fighting on April 19th, 1775, at Lexington and Concord, the start of the War for Independence.  But they never teach this history in the government-run and government-approved schools.  It's almost as if they want you to believe that the founders and old revolutionaries, "Well, they fought this long, bloody war just so they could get some representatives to tax them." But that's a total lie.  The truth?  Months before Lexington and Concord, the British launched a massive campaign to disarm the people, confiscating powder, banning imports, warrantless searches and seizures, and much more.  And then on that fateful day, April 19, 1775, the Patriots fought back.