Understanding Federal Tyranny begins with a two-chapter overview, to provide a general framework to explain how government servants effectively became our political masters. Then, the last three chapters “follow the money” to prove true the outline in a specific case (the case of how our lawful money of gold and silver coin was effectively replaced with irredeemable paper currency). Understanding Federal Tyranny answers The Peculiar Conundrum— the odd phenomenon of how members of Congress and federal officials are able to bypass their constitutional restraints, with impunity, despite the chains of the Constitution otherwise. By accurately diagnosing the cause of that single political problem (which has a 1,000 irrelevant symptoms) and applying the appropriate cure, Patriots may finally Restore Our American Republic, Once and For All and/or Happily-Ever-After (the nicknames of the two amendments herein proposed).