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First Principles: Each Department Is Truly Independent of the Others, and Has An Equal Right To Decide For Itself What Is the meaning of the Constitution
“My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in … Continue reading
Echo Back
Echo Backby Michael DoyleMy words echo back into tomorrowA half-life that’s full of sorrowI’m often sorry for what I sayThe demons inside won’t have it any other wayIf these were the last words I saidI wouldn’t want them rolling in … Continue reading
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Tagged Better Choice, Bones, Construction, Demons Inside, Destroy, Destruction, Echo Back, Family, Father, Feeling, Full of Sorrow, Generational Sinds, Grown, Half-Life, Head, Humbly, Hurt, Ideal, Immeasurable, Imprint, Intrude, Kill You, Last Words, My Brokenness, New Thoughts and Habits, Nobility, Own, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Point of View, Proof of Life, Raise, Rise Above, Rolling, Rude, Say, Served, Shown, Solitude, Sorry, Sticks and Stones, Strong Regret, The Bible, Thoughts, Tomorrow, Treasurable, Truth of Love, Voice, Wish, Won't Do, Words
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First Principles: On Every Question of Construction Carry Ourselves Back To the Time the Constitution Was Adopted, Recollect the Spirit Manifested In the Debates
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adopt, Conform, Constitution, Construction, Debate, First Principles, Invent, Meaning, Passed, Probable, Question, Spirit, Squeeze, Text, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: Our Peculiar Security Is In the Possession of A Written Constitution. Let Us Not Make It A Blank Paper By Construction
“Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.” – Thomas Jefferson (1803)
Two Brothers Fight
Two Brothers Fightby Michael DoyleTwo brothers are engaged in a fightOver their father’s founding legacyEach side as if as lost within vanityAs the day that divides the ends of nightDown through the centuriesEach side believes itself the betterRepeating cycles of … Continue reading
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Tagged Abandon, Allow, Believe, Better, Better Fate, Better Way, Brutality, Caught Up, Centuries, Chains of Yesterday, Claim, Cling, Coexistence, Construction, Crazy, Darkness, Day, Desert To the Sea, Difference, Disobedience, Divide, Each Side, Endless Cycles, Ends of Night, Every Day, Fallen Stakes, False Histories, Father, Fight, Gaslighting, God's Commands, Hate, Holy Lands, Humanity, Indignity, Land, Legacy, Love, Mercy, Miunderstood, Mutually Caused Destruction, One Side, Other Side, Paths, Peace, Poetry and Poems, Proclaim, Recognize, Repeating Cycles, Result, Sanity, Strength, Truth, Two Brothers, Vanity, Victimhood, Work Toward
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First Principles: Our Peculiar Security Is In the Possession of A Written Constitution. Let Us Not Make It A Blank Paper By Construction
“Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.” – Thomas Jefferson (1803)
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Tagged Blank Paper, Construction, First Principles, Peculiar, Possession, Security, Thomas Jefferson, Written Constitution
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Traverse City Blues
Traverse City Bluesby Michael DoyleIt comes about every now and thenWhen a soul feels lost and needs some zenThen is the time to hit the roadAnd ease the tension looking to explodeThe thing is that seven hoursSnaking through construction soursEven … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Attitude, Beach, Blues, Choose, Construction, Dues, Dunes, Explode, Fun, Hit the Road, Homesick Sufer, Hues, Latitude, Light Pollution, Lighthouses, Magic, Mile, Mind, Muse, Peninsula, Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive, Poetry and Poems, Quiet Time, Reach, Runes, Sand, Sleeping Bear Dunes, Smile, Soul, Stars, Suntan, Tension, Third Coast, Traverse City, Tunnel of Trees, Vacation, Whisper, Zen
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A Truth Told
A Truth Toldby Michael Doyle Trapped within lies within liesA truth illuminates under artificial skiesAnd the pain makes for the better manIt’s a script a believer can understand Meant, as it is, to make us believeThough written so carefully as … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive, Anguish, Answer, Artificial Skies, Beginning, Believe, Better Man, Breaking My Heart, Broken Life, Cancer, Clever, Complexity, Construct, Construction, Deceive, Dexterity, Eggs, Faith, Fools, Forgiving, Found, Frames Per Second, Game, Illusory, Imporbable, Lies, Living, Mass Destruction, Meant, Pain, Poetry and Poems, Real, Reflection, Reveals, Revolt, Rules, Script, Self-Destruct, Start, Trapped, Truth, Truth Told, Understand, Vault, Win
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First Principles: The True Key For the Construction of Everything Doubtful In A Law Is the Intention of the Law-Makers
“The true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the … Continue reading
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Tagged Construction, Contradict, Doubtful, Express Words, Extraneous Circumstances, First Principles, Gather, Intention, Law, Law-Makers, Sought, Thomas Jefferson, True Key, Words
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Stand Real
Stand Realby Michael DoyleEvery day it’s the same gameGoing out of our way to avoid blameWe need to live with boldnessInstead of living this lie, they’ve sold usComing up short, just to fall into graceThis is the holiness, that I … Continue reading
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Tagged Advice, Battle Is Done, Blame, Boldness, Bread, Construction, Contortion, Desire, Destruction, Disbelief, Drive, Embrace, Grace, Grief, Identity, Immediacy, Insecurity, Integity, Manipulation, Moment of Grace, Poetry and Poems, Price, Prove, Purity, Real, Same Game, Satisfaction, Score, Situation, Social Distortion, Sold, Valuable, Vulnerable
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