Justice Abe Fortas was not so fortunate. He had been on the Supreme Court for just four years, but had written some remarkable opinions. President Johnson nominated him for the job of Chief Justice, when Earl Warren was retiring. It seems the IRS had different ideas, so they had one of their agents meet with a reporter from Life magazine and give him embarrassing information from Justice Fortas’s tax file. Fortas withdrew and even resigned from the High Court. No doubt the rest of the Court got the message."

Between the 1992 and the 1999 Second edition of For Good and Evil, Adams wrote this more detailed expose of the tax history of America. The reader is walked through five notable stages of American history that traditional historians seem to gloss over at best and utterly ignore at worst. Adams discusses the roots of the American Revolution, the first tax revolts following the war, the tariff battles that led to the Civil War, the orgins of the IRS in the Second Whiskey Rebellion of the post Civil War era, and the final evolution of the present day income tax.

Adams expose is as enlightening as it is sobering. The reader should take to heart two hard lessons from this book. The income tax system set in place is an unquestionable anathema to the intent of the founders, but it is firmly in place as far as the "elected establishment" is concerned simply because the revenue collection agency charged with the task of enforcing this system has been given so much power that those with a modicum of standing in the political system are just too afraid to stand up against it even if they are fully aware of it’s illegalities. It only reaffirms our own position in the Common Law Venue of Minnesota, that if you are waiting for "government" to reform you will be waiting until the sun runs out of gas.

The Coming Battle, A Complete History of the National Banking Money Power in the United States, By M.W. Walbert, W.B. Conkey Company (1899). 

Patriots are notorious for rallying around the tired cliché the Bankster Conspiracy. Their cries never get any attention in the mainstream media unless it is to somehow discredit them as a bunch of kooks. But before you write them off you may consider reading what was in the media a hundred years ago. Read the commentaries and excerpts from speeches on the floors of the House and Senate. Read excerpts for articles and circulars of the late 1700’s and the 1800s’ and decide for yourself the veracity to the following assertions: 

• Recesssions, depressions, and panics are created at will and how the stock markets are manipulated for power and gain.
• Manufacturers, with the backing of the money power, imported cheap foreign labor, resulting in countless labor riots.
• The money power took control of the influential colleges and universities in the United States.
• The money power created starvation and suffering in a nation of plenty and how small family farms are set up for foreclosures.
• How silver was demonetized by the money power, resulting in a five year depression, that devastated the people and the western regions of the United States.
• The banking power fleeced the treasury of our gold and silver and replaced it with worthless paper “money.”
• Legislation was signed and passed into law pledging every American citizen as collateral for the repayment of all government debts in gold and silver.

Sell Out, The Inside Story of President Clinton’s Impeachment

By David P. Schippers, Regnery Publishing, 2000. 

Sigmund Freud said “sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” But the Clinton impeachment wasn’t a cigar and it wasn’t about sex. Schippers is a Chicago democrat and a lawyer. He was asked by Rep. Hyde to be the chief investigative counsel during the Clinton impeachment. In his book he walks you through his own eyewitness accounts of the investigation, the evidence, and the cover up by the elected officials in the United States Senate. This is an easy to read, yet detailed expose of hard evidence in the form of documents and sworn testimony that the Clinton Gore administration used the nation’s highest office to influence immigration standards to tilt popular vote at election time. Read testimony and evidence showing the President used his position of authority to influence witnesses and sworn statements. And finally statements right from the mouths of U.S. Senators blatantly professes an premeditated intent to ignore whatever evidence was to be brought before them. Read which republican senator said “I don’t care if you prove that he raped a woman and then stood up and shot her dead, you are not going to get sixty seven votes.” 

For Good And Evil, The Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilization

Second Edition

By Charles Adams, Madison Books, 1999. 

Ideologies, nationalities, and theologies come and go. Nations and empires alike rise and fall over the issues of trade and allocation of resources. In his book Adams, a noted tax attorney, historian, and scholar will take the reader on a guided tour of world history from the Rosetta Stone of Egypt to the revenue laws of the modern day. The premis is self evident to anyone reading this book, that single greatest common denominator in the rise and fall of societies has been the scope and character of their system of taxation…or in some cases lack thereof.  

When in the Course of Human Events, Arguing the Case for Southern Secession

By Charles Adams, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 

If you are like the vast majority of Americans who were taught that the Civil War was the war to free the slaves you may find this book disturbing. Others may find it a breath of fresh air. Adams shows the reader, through the records, writings, and commentary of the times, both in the states and abroad, that the Civil War was primarily a battle over competing commercial interests. Adams shows that the war was an avoidable humanitarian disaster that nearly destroyed any hope of a free republic arising from its ashes.

Vindicating the Founders; Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Orgins of America

By Thomas G. West

Rowmann & Littlefield (2001)

‘The nation’s first naturalization law of 1790 reflected the Founders’ concern for a republican character. It required would be citizens to apply ‘to any common law court of record in any of the states wherein he shall have resided…and mak[e] proof to the satisfaction of such court that he is a person of good character.’"

This cite of United States law is found on page 167 of the above work by Professor West. It is one of many poignant facts concisely presented for the reader seeking a more accurate snapshot of not only what the founding fathers preached, but also what they were actually practicing. Patriots have an uncanny knack for bickering amongst themselves as to what going back to the beginning really means. Some will tell you that it means women cannot sit on the common law court juries. Others suggest that the blacks are barred from being found sovereign and eligible for expatriation because they were slaves. Still others will tell you that if you do not own land, patented land, that you cannot vote in a de jure election.

This book is a must read for anyone who advocates a return to basic common law principles of government. It draws a very clear and convincing arguments of just what those principles would have been deemed to be by the founders. It also clearly shows that our nation was not founded with some unchangeable nor non-evolving ideal. This book very clearly challenges the patriot movement to consider the possibility that "getting back to our roots" is not necessarily synonymous with "rolling back the clock."