MK3|Oct. 6,2025
WHETHER THE GOVERNMENT LIKES IT OR NOT
John Dickinson understood what schools don’t teach – the people are the ones to enforce their own constitution.
“IT IS THEIR DUTY TO WATCH, AND THEIR RIGHT TO TAKE CARE, THAT THE CONSTITUTION BE PRESERVED; or in the Roman phrase on perilous occasions – To PROVIDE, THAT THE REPUBLIC RECEIVE NO DAMAGE.”
Dickinson wasn’t a radical by temperament. He was careful, deliberate. But he knew even the best Constitution would mean nothing if the people didn’t step up to enforce it themselves.
That warning rings louder than ever today. Politicians in both parties burn through trillions, spy without warrants, and hand out permission slips for your natural right of self-defense. They want obedience – not vigilance.
The Constitution can’t enforce itself.
Never did and never will.
That’s a big part of the reason why the Tenth Amendment Center exists. For nearly 20 years we’ve reminded the people of their duty – a duty to protect and defend their own Constitution and their own liberty, whether the government likes it, or not.
But TAC runs only on your support. No government funds. No billionaire strings. Just people like you who understand Dickinson’s call: when the constitution is violated, the answer is to “be instantly found … before the supreme sovereignty of the people”
And Dickinson was far from alone. Samuel Adams, for example, also reminded us that defending our constitution and liberty isn’t just a good idea – but a moral imperative – a duty.
“The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.”
That’s not a summary for a book report. It’s a warning for us right today – and every single day.
Power always grows. Governments will never restrain themselves – and relying on them to do so – has given us the largest government in history.
The only way to turn things around is get back to the foundation. That’s why we take it right back to the founders and the old revolutionaries: The duty to keep government in check belongs to us.
Concordia res parvae crescunt
(small things grow great by concord)
Source:Tenth Amendment Center