Larry Schweikert

The French and Indian War was when the French allied with the Indians to fight the English.

And the English won.

They extracted a high cost and they took all the land all the way out to the Mississippi.

And so now you have this issue of land.

And not only are the British saying, we're going to tax you to pay for the cost of the war that we just fought over there, but

Because you have so many people running out across the Appalachian Mountains and trying to settle or hunt, we're going to only give out licenses to certain groups to go over there, and the rest of you are prohibited from crossing the mountains to hunt and settle.

Well, that's not going to fly to a people who were very accustomed to moving where they wanted, when they wanted, and if they could protect themselves against the Indians settling where they wanted.

So there was a huge uproar over the proclamation line of 1763, and as a result, Parliament reversed itself and said, okay, never mind, never mind, you can go back out there.

But it wasn't too long before they reversed themselves a second time and said, no, no, wait, those licenses are still in place, you can't go out there.

As with anything, not only are taxes bad, but indecisiveness is bad.

People don't like it when they have a government that they can't rely on to make regular, sensible policy.

So that land ordinance helped pave the way toward the revolution.

Is he correct about what that Mitch McConnell is...

Young America's event.

You've done a number of those talks.

I was giving a talk at a Young America's event and a YF event, and I met Cruz.

And let's just say that the interactions I had with him didn't impress me.

and shortly thereafter, about a month or so later, when Trump came down the escalator, he was giving a speech here in Arizona.

My wife and I are still teaching at the University of Dayton, and we were vacationing out here in Arizona near my parents, and I noticed that they had a special news flash on the television that Trump was scheduled to speak at the Phoenician resort, but they had to move it

to the Arizona Convention Center, and Phoenician holds a couple hundred, Arizona Convention Center holds thousands.