The Prophetic Warning: Why Pelatiah Webster Feared Big Government

The Prophetic Warning: Why Pelatiah Webster Feared Big Government

Author: Professor Nick Giordano | Conservative Political Analyst & Commentator November 13, 2025 Duration: 16:44

In this episode of America's Founding Series on The P.A.S. Report Podcast, Professor Nick Giordano tells the riveting story of Pelatiah Webster, the clergyman-turned-economist, who saw America's future more clearly than anyone of his time. As the young republic teetered on collapse in 1781, Webster's bold vision for limited government, sound money, and individual enterprise laid the groundwork for the U.S. Constitution and the free-market system that built the nation. His warnings about inflation, dependency, and centralized control echo today as socialism and big-government promises sweep through modern politics.

 

Episode Highlights

  • How Pelatiah Webster's 1781 blueprint inspired Madison and Hamilton and helped shape the U.S. Constitution.
  • Why Webster's fight against debt, inflation, and dependency remains a direct warning to today's socialist and big-government movements.
  • What Webster taught about freedom and property rights and why capitalism, not government control and socialism, is the true guardian of liberty.


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Timestamps

  • 00:52 The Rise of Big Government and Socialism
  • 02:50 Economic Collapse and the Articles of Confederation
  • 05:12 Webster's Vision for a Limited Government
  • 08:07 The Connection Between Economics and Liberty
  • 10:23 Warnings Against Government Dependency
  • 12:41 The Legacy of Webster and the Constitution

 

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