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First Principles: Charitable Assistance Is Best Given Locally
“It is a duty certainly to give our sparings to those who want; but to see also that they are faithfully distributed, and duly apportioned to the respective wants of those receivers. And why give through agents whom we know … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountability, Charity, Distant, Federal, First Principles, Local, Stewardship, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: True Liberty Cannot Exist Without Restraint On the Violent
“Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination; it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent.” — Fisher Ames (1801) The … Continue reading
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Tagged Compromise, Enjoyment, Exist, First Principles, Fisher Ames, Freedom, Governance, Government, Liberty, Ordered Liberty, Security
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First Principles: The Bill of Rights Is To Prevent the Encroachment of the Federal Government On Private Rights
“The invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.” … Continue reading
First Principles: Leaders In Our Nation Must Have Good Character
“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a State than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” —Samuel Adams (1775)
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Tagged Character, Example, First Principles, Good Behavior, Leaders, manners, Morals, Samuel Adams
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First Principles: A Law’s Propriety Has Be Determined Based On Natural Law
“The propriety of a law, in a constitutional light, must always be determined by the nature of the powers upon which it is founded.” — Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 33 (1788) The text of Federalist No. 33 may be read here: http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa33.htm … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Constitution, Federalist Papers, Foundation, Government, Law, Natural Law, Propriety
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First Principles: The Steady Character of Americans Is Our Anchor
“The steady character of our countrymen is a rock to which we may safely moor; and notwithstanding the efforts of the papers to disseminate early discontents, I expect that a just, dispassionate and steady conduct, will at length rally to … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchor, Elbridge Gerry, First Principles, Harmony, Moderation, Stability, Steady, Temperance, Thomas Jefferson
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Happy 242nd Birthday, United States Navy!
A look past, present and the future of the US Navy can be found here: http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/NavyBirthday/index.html
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Tagged Celebration, Future, History, Navy, Seapower, United States
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First Principles: Before A Standing Army Can Rule, the People Must Be Disarmed
“Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed; as they are in almost every kingdom of Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are … Continue reading
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Tagged Disarmed, First Principles, Government, History, Noah Webster, Second Amendment, Standing Army, The People
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First Principles: Self Defense Is A Primary Law Of Nature
“The defense of one’s self, justly called the primary law of nature, is not, nor can it be abrogated by any regulation of municipal law. This principle of defense is not confined merely to the person; it extends to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill of Rights, First Principles, James Wilson, Liberty, Natural Law, Person, Property, Second Amendment, Self Defense
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First Principles: Americans Should Always Remember Our Blessings
“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading
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Tagged Americans, Belief, Blessings, First Principles, Guard, Improve, Independence, Inheritance, Joseph Story, Life, Noble, Posterity, Property, Sacrifice
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