[Editor’s note: With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence comes many attempts to use the text of the Declaration to support modern political ideologies. Perhaps the most common misuse of the Declaration’s text is to warp the meaning of the phrase “all men are created equal.” Modern egalitarian agendas are thus applied to the text of the Declaration in ways that depart thoroughly from the actual meaning as applied by Jefferson in the eighteenth century.

In his writings, Milton Friedman blamed the Federal Reserve for causing the Great Depression of the 1930s. Friedman believed that the US central bank failed to inflate enough money into the banking system to prevent the collapse of the money supply and the economy. The money supply M1, which stood at $28.264 billion in October 1929, fell to $19.039 billion by April 1933—a decline of almost 33 percent.

“Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, & parents from their children, & compel them to fight the battles of any war, in which the folly or the wickedness of Government may engage it?