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First they tried to tell you that the Federal Reserve System is "independent," and that we need to protect "the independence of the Fed" from politics.

That's a laugh. The Fed has always been influenced by politics -- a topic for another day.

Then -- and this is the one they're hammering hard right now -- they tried to tell you the Supreme Court was an independent body that dispassionately interpreted the Constitution as a public service to the American people.

That is what I have heard domesticated conservatives try to tell the rest of us in the wake of the birthright citizenship decision. To wit, "The job of the court is not to reach an outcome they like or you like. A faithful jurist will honestly (to the best of their ability) determine what the law says. Not what they want it to say."

The idea that our justices are Platonic philosophers sitting on a mountaintop, undisturbed by political considerations and concerned only with the wording and intent of the Constitution, is a proposition I cannot believe someone is advancing with a straight face in 2026.

After all, remember what they said about Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "She fought for what she believed in."

A justice who is interpreting the Constitution as written is not "fighting for" anything, but simply doing his job.

On the other hand, a justice who is exploiting his position on the Court in order to impose his policy preferences on the country in the name of interpreting the Constitution is "fighting for what he believes in," all right, but that is extremely dishonorable behavior.

So there's a lot of phony-baloney "independence" talk, in other words.

We are approaching a milestone Independence Day this weekend, of course: the 250th.

The colonists wanted independence because they believed in local self-government. They try to bore you to death in school with the snore-inducing cry of "no taxation without representation," but what the colonists really demanded was the much broader principle of no legislation without representation.

Have we preserved that kind of independence -- the independence of self-governing bodies from outside forces encroaching on their liberties? I think we know the answer.

I'll never forget hearing Professor Kevin Gutzman, my co-author on Who Killed the Constitution? and a man who holds both a law degree and a Ph.D. in history, say that in the multiple-choice section on the bar exam, if the Tenth Amendment (which we might think of as the self-government amendment) shows up as one of the possible answers, that is never right. It is always wrong.

So it's looking like the only kind of independence available to us is the kind we take for ourselves: independence from education bureaucrats, independence from a corrupt medical establishment, and the independence that comes from building up our own finances and nest eggs.

I have nothing better for you in that department than Low Stress Options, and I doubt I ever will.

There are only two 5pm Eastern calls remaining with me this week about the program, and I cannot urge you strongly enough to attend one -- especially if you don't believe me. Especially.

It's changed the lives of the zillion Woods people who have joined, and you've heard it from their own lips.

Dave Ramsey ain't going to cut it in 2026.

Click here to register, and I'll see you there, on the path to true independence.

Tom Woods

P.S. This is in fact the last week to join at the current price (it's vastly underpriced, in my opinion), which goes up on Saturday. See you there.






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