America’s Revolution didn’t just overthrow a king. It overthrew an idea — that power belongs at the top. Every other revolution in history has centralized control, but ours dispersed it. That’s why Clifford Ribner calls the American Revolution the culmination of an eight-century fight for individual liberty, beginning with the Magna Carta and ending with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

In this video, Clifford explains how that founding revolution created the freest system in world history — and how a slow-moving counter-revolution has been reversing it ever since, replacing liberty with bureaucracy, self-government with regulation, and citizens with subjects.

What Makes This Video Essential Viewing

Watch to understand:

• The Real Lineage of Liberty: How America’s Revolution grew directly from the English revolutions of 1215, 1640, and 1689

• The Design of Limited Power: Why the Founders enumerated federal powers and rejected collectivist control

• The Rise of the Counter-Revolution: How administrative agencies, unions, and regulatory regimes rebuilt the very tyranny the Revolution destroyed

• The Illusion of “General Welfare”: How courts twisted a limiting clause into a blank check for federal expansion

• The Cost of Collectivism: Why replacing personal responsibility with bureaucratic control makes us poorer and less free

Why This Matters for Every Citizen

The Revolution’s promise was simple: freedom first, permission never.

Every inch of power reclaimed by centralized agencies shrinks that promise. The Founders built a system of enumerated authority, where individual rights come from God, not government. The counter-revolution has quietly inverted that logic — making liberty conditional on compliance and licensing.

Understanding that reversal isn’t history; it’s survival. Every business owner, professional, and parent lives under a structure the Founders would have called tyranny by procedure.

Historical & Legal Context You Need

• Magna Carta (1215): The first written limits on executive power — due process before deprivation

• English Bill of Rights (1689): The crown renounces the “dispensing power” — no one above the law

• U.S. Constitution (1787): Enumerated powers, separated functions, liberty as default

• Federalist No. 41: Madison warns against misreading “general welfare” as an open grant of authority

• Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897): The Supreme Court affirms that life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are constitutionally protected rights

Questions This Video Answers

• What made America’s Revolution completely different from France’s or Russia’s?

• How did English constitutional battles prepare the ground for 1776?

• What is the “counter-revolution” undermining liberty in America today?

• How do administrative agencies violate the Constitution’s separation of powers?

• What would restoring individual sovereignty mean for prosperity and justice?

Who Should Watch This Video

✅ Citizens who believe freedom must be earned and defended

✅ Students of history, law, and political philosophy

✅ Entrepreneurs frustrated by bureaucratic overreach

✅ Advocates for constitutional reform and limited government

The Bottom Line

Our Revolution decentralized power — the counter-revolution is taking it back.

Clifford Ribner shows how the very principles that made America free are being eroded by administrative law, collectivist ideology, and judicial indifference. Reclaiming liberty means remembering what the Founders built and why: a republic where the individual is sovereign and the government is limited.

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