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By: The Misrepresentation of Health Care Reform | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 19:11:53 +0000

[...] them representatives.”Morgan connects these considerations to the American Revolution, the Articles of Confederation, and the goals of the Constitutional Convention. But bear in mind that he is not a radical critic [...]

By: pilgrim1776

pilgrim1776 — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:48:16 +0000

For all intents and purposes man does not deserve to be free. Those that truly desire to enjoy freedom recognize that there are obligations and responsibilities inherent in maintaining freedom; and liberty.
Man, per se, is a mental coward. He wants but will not peform those responsibilities and obligations that are prerequisite in having a free society. His head is buried somewhere in the darkness of greed and avarice, and the cowardice to stand up and be counted when the call for participation is required.
The entire us of a is floundering debt yet all governmental agencies have vast and wealthy CAFR funds that are totally unconstitutional and man either does not know about them or is not willing to challenge the massive theft(s) that created them.
There is no hope for liberty and freedom because as Santayana has eloquently stated in the past, “Unless mankind is willing to recognize the mistakes of the past he is bound to repeat them!”, and except for possibly some slight variation in the wording, that is what Santayana has stated and that is what we continue to suffer from; man’s mental cowardice!

By: Is Freedom a Radical Idea? | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

Is Freedom a Radical Idea? | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 10:58:36 +0000

[...] called a counterrevolution. We need only remind ourselves that the Constitution came after the Articles of Confederation, which (for all its faults) had deprived the national quasigovernment of both the power to tax and [...]

By: Was the Constitution Really Meant to Constrain the Government? | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:58:12 +0000

[...] those who wanted a weak central government, such as the one under the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation. (Yes, the labels should have been reversed.) The proof is that Alexander Hamilton and Thomas [...]

By: The Rent-Seeking Habit | Foundation for Economic Education

The Rent-Seeking Habit | Foundation for Economic Education — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 21:26:25 +0000

[...] and lower levels of government. Although the Federalists were able to overthrow the decentralist Articles of Confederation for the far more centralist Constitution, public sentiment still held an admirable suspicion of [...]

By: Was the Constitution Really Meant to Constrain the Government? | Foundation for Economic Education

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:33:46 +0000