Loyalist № 14. In Federalist No. 28, Hamilton defends the people’s right to resist their government – a principle rooted in the Revolution and alive still in American political culture. From the Civil War to domestic terrorism, the legacy is clear: when every citizen is sovereign, rebellion becomes not the exception, but the expectation.
Loyalist № 10. In the hands of one who wears not the Crown but lusts after it, the noble prerogatives of mercy and pardon turn to malignancy. Not unlike the failure of Reconstruction following the end of the Civil War, the pardoning of the January 6th insurrectionists who sought to overturn the constitutional order of the United States foreshadows a long and terrible night ahead.