ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Ken Krawchuk Interview: The Libertarian Running for Pennsylvania Governor
Twelve days before Pennsylvania chooses a governor, Libertarian nominee Ken Krawchuk takes up the history of the week: New England towns that voted their own taxes and refused one laid by a governor they had not chosen.
This is the interview episode for Week 17 of Self-Evident: The Road to 1776, "Self-Government Before Theory." Ken is on the ballot November 3 with his running mate, John Thomas, our Week 6 guest. He has spent a career as a computer programmer and business systems architect, and he is the author of Atlas Snubbed.
We begin in Ipswich in 1687, with what a governor should do alone: the veto, a cabinet cut to six departments, and pardons through the Board of Pardons. Then the wasted-vote objection, ballot access, consent and the veto, who decides what a township allows, from data centers to the newcomer Ipswich turned away in 1639, school choice, the National Guard, where Ken and Jeff want the same thing and part on how to get it, the emergency clock, license-plate cameras, and incorporation.
Did this leave us more free, or more governed? Jeff puts the question to Ken's "can't license": liberty as the default, restricted only after an abuse, by a sentence before a jury.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
0:00:00 — Cold open: the race by its numbers
0:02:14 — Introduction: Week 17 and a candidate on the record
0:04:04 — Three threads for the hour
0:05:10 — Meet Ken Krawchuk
0:06:40 — Ipswich, 1687: what should a governor do alone?
0:09:24 — Cutting the cabinet to six
0:11:04 — Drug policy and the Board of Pardons
0:13:13 — The wasted-vote objection
0:16:15 — Approve, approve, disapprove voting
0:18:37 — "Free and equal" elections and ballot access
0:21:46 — The Ballot Access Coalition
0:23:09 — Consent and the veto
0:24:56 — The Municipal Planning Code and data centers
0:27:37 — Who speaks for the landowner?
0:29:07 — Ipswich, 1639: "the town was full"
0:31:20 — Fund the child, not the system
0:38:04 — The National Guard and Defend the Guard
0:41:53 — Statute or constitution? Where Ken differs
0:42:30 — The 21-day limit on emergency declarations
0:48:19 — License-plate cameras and Flock
0:50:40 — "The Flocked Up Blues" and the campaign songs
0:52:35 — Atlas Snubbed: the separation of society and state
0:56:36 — The "can't license"
0:58:07 — A court without coercive power
1:00:42 — Incorporation: where does the line belong?
1:02:46 — Ken's answer: the Supremacy Clause
1:05:30 — A message to the voter on the fence
1:07:27 — Where to find Atlas Snubbed
1:08:34 — Closing: what came out of the hour
1:09:27 — Where we part on the Guard
1:11:09 — From Tuesday: Ken on incorporation
1:11:44 — A correction: Heller and McDonald
1:12:16 — The Liberty Test: the "can't license"
1:14:44 — Next: Episode 18, "The Revolutionary Argument"
📚 Article 17, "Self-Government Before Theory," with every source in its endnotes: https://www.consequentialactions.com/post/self-government-before-theory-a-hundred-and-fifty-years-of-practice
🗳️ Ken Krawchuk for Governor: https://www.kenk4pa.com
🎵 Ken's campaign songs, including "The Flocked Up Blues": https://www.kenk4pa.com/1726-2/
📖 Atlas Snubbed: https://atlassnubbed.com/
🎙️ Jamie Frost Remmey, our Week 7 guest, running for Pennsylvania's First Congressional District: https://www.jamiefrostremmey.com
🎙️ Consequential Actions · Self-Evident: The Road to 1776 · Episode 17i
Next: Episode 18, "The Revolutionary Argument," Saturday, October 24.
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