“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.”
– Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774
“Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
– James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 1787
“Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”
– Frederic Bastiat, “Government”, 1848
Is the United States an oligarchy, democracy, monarchy or republic? You many be surprised at the answer. The short, 3 part series below explains the basic forms of government and why our founding fathers chose our particular form of government. This video also breaks the idea of the modern ‘left and right’ political spectrum, which places ‘liberals’ on the left and ‘conservatives’ on the right. Instead, it shows the proper way to look at a true political spectrum. It also takes a brief walk through history and shows which political and economic structures have proven to be the most liberating and productive for society.
Political Spectrum Part 1: The Real Left and Right
Political Spectrum Part 2: Rome’s Fall and Economic Systems
Politcal Spectrum Part 3: Free Enterprise vs Central Planning
