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America Is Repeating a 200-Year-Old Mistake — On Purpose

Tom Bilyeu

Senator Mike Lee has proposed a new Senate bill designed to treat drug cartels like pirates, effectively reviving an 18th-century legal mechanism known as letters of marque. This constitutional tool was last utilized during the War of 1812 and historically authorized private actors, or "privateers," …