By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-06 22:37:54 | Updated at 2025-01-08 04:23:56
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“A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box.”
John Locke Foundation ^ | February 8, 2018 | Jon Guze
Posted on 01/06/2025 2:35:03 PM PST by wildcard_redneck
The title comes from a memoir by Frederick Douglass, a self-taught escaped slave who was born two hundred years ago this month. During his life, Douglass was celebrated as one of the 19th century’s most learned, eloquent, and passionate defenders of freedom and individual rights in the classical liberal tradition.
By the time of his death in 1895, however, that tradition was being rapidly displaced by progressivism, an antithetical philosophy promoting government power over the individual that would dominate American political thought throughout the coming century. The triumph of progressivism over classical liberalism may, in part, explain why Douglass is so woefully neglected as a thinker and as a writer, and it may also explain why—despite the official creation of a federal Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commission—so little has been done to commemorate the anniversary of his birth.
At a time when the principles of the Declaration of Independence were under assault, Douglass waved the banner of classical liberalism, championing inalienable rights for all, regardless of race or sex. At a time when socialism was on the rise, Douglass preached the virtues of free labor and self-ownership in a market-based economy. At a time when state governments were violating the rights of the recently emancipated, Douglass professed the central importance of “the ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box” in the fight against Jim Crow
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This 6 year old article is more timely now than when it was written. We are under the rule of a reptilian establishment that seeks to balkanize America and set Americans against one another so that they may loot the treasury. Marxism and socialism is just a movement to pillage whoever has the most money at one time.
Now the globalist marxists have set their sights on Americans and are importing millions of foreigners to divide subjugate and steal the wealth of all Americans under the guise of fake compassion for their shock troops of invading foreigners. The courts have let Americans down and actively rule against them. While the election of Trump offers hope we must wait and see if Trump can deliver on his promises. The courts have been and are attacking Americans and electing Republicans has not worked so far. What is next?
We have tried jury box and the ballot box and if those fail will Americans be forced to use the cartridge box?
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