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First Principles: Energy In the Executive Is…Essential to the Protection of the Community Against Foreign Attacks
“Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Ambition, Anarchy, Assaults, Community, Definition, Energy, Enterprises, Essential, Executive, Faction, First Principles, Foreign Attacks, Good Government, High-Handed Combinations, Interrupt, Irregular, Justice, Laws, Leading Character, Ordinary Course, Protection, Protection of Property, Security of Liberty, Stead Administration
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A Republic To Be Kept
A Republic To Be Keptby Michael DoyleStart then as it were with a nameWhat we will call out as informationThen like chess parts to the gameWe provide definition in affirmationWhat does this take in its inflectionTo voice what it is … Continue reading
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Tagged Absolute, Achieve, Affirmation, Believe, Blemishes, Chess, Coal, Consequences, Conspiracy, Constitution, Convention, Deception, Definition, Deform, Diamond, Disputation, Divine Geometry, Explanation, Feemen, Forced Hands, Fuzzy, Generation After Generation, Gilded Cage, Glimpse, Inflection, Information, Justice, Kept, Knowledge, Law, Lies, Mercy, Name, Nation, Object, Page, Peace, Plato, Poetry and Poems, Power Corrupts, Price, Prosperity, Reality, Reflection, Republic, Reputation, Rule of Law, See, Signed Name, Slaves, Spirit, Start, Surprise, Tempered, Truth, Tyrant, Voice, Winter, Wisdom
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A Perspective of Identity
A Perspective of Identityby Michael DoyleIdentityMulti-facetedYet abstractIntegral Stated with trustCrucial To communicationEssentialTo humanity’s explanationPervasive In every social interactionAn accelerated Mix of culture in transitionDiscussed amongst us allLike Babel’s great fallA conception in definitionDeveloped in competencyOr lost in the incendiarySocial categoryPersonal … Continue reading
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Tagged Abstract, Accelerate, Allegory, Babel, Communication, Competency, Comprise, Conception, Crucial, Definition, Destruction, Discuss, Elusive, Eseential, Heritage, Humanity, Identity, Incendiary, Inclusive, Integral, Lost, Mix of Culture, Multi-Faceted, Personal, Perspective, Poetry and Poems, Reflective, Self-Deception, Shy, Social Category, Social Construction, Social Interaction, Social Norm, Speak, Time, Transition, Trust, Unique, View, Warm, Who Am I?
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First Principles: I Consider the Foundation of the Constitution As Laid On This Ground That ‘All Powers Not Delegated To the United States, By the Constitution, Nor Prohibited By It To the States, Are Reserved To the States Or To the People
“I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that ‘all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.’ … Continue reading
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Tagged All Powers, Boundaries, Boundless Field, Consider, Constitution, Definition, Delegated, First Principles, Foundation, Ground, Opinion On the Constitutionality of a National Bank, Possession, Power, Powers of Congress, Prohibit, Single Step, States, The People, Thomas Jefferson, United States
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First Principles: The Accumulation of All Powers, Legislative, Executive and Judiciary, In the Same Hands…May Justly Be Pronounced the Very Definition of Tyranny
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” – James Madison (1788)
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Tagged Accumulation, All Powers, Definition, Elective, Executive, Few, First Principles, Hereditary, James Madison, Judiciary, Legislative, Many, One, Same Hands, Self-Appointed, Tyranny
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Empty Jar
Empty Jarby Michael DoyleIt’s an empty jar that we fillGiven the many choices of our free willIt’s best to live with full intentionLooking back, we’ll see what’s had our attentionThis jar of ours, might just shatterIf we fill it with … Continue reading
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Tagged Attention, Cannot Steal, Center, Choice, Cold Night, Confessed, Definition, Destination, Don't Matter, Due Consideration, Empty Jar, End, Fact, Faith, Family, Fictions, Fill, Fill It, Filled With Love, Final Test, Foundation, Free Will, Full Intention, God, Greatest Treausre, Hearts, Heaven, Holy Star, Impact, Infancy, Legacy, Lessons, Life, Live, Looking Back, Matter Most, Minds, Mistaken, Over Fact, Overdue Conversation, Past, Poetry and Poems, Priceless, Priority, Purpose, Real, Realize, Serve, Service, Shatter, Sisters and Brothers, Situation, Thieves, Time Slips, Toward All, Wish
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Darkness Shapes the Hearts
Darkness Shapes the Heartsby Michael DoylePutin sits as another dictator in a lineCertain his autocratic rule is blessed as divineThis has been the slavery of Russia’s serfdomWith brutality reigning supreme in this kingdomFor five thousand years, we’ve known epilepsy As … Continue reading
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Tagged Affliction, Ashen, Autocratic Rule, Believe, Betrayer, Blessed, Brothers Karamazov, Canker, Chained, Christianity, Civil Liberty, Cloak, Coincidence, Creativity, Cruelty, Dark Place, Darkness, Death, Definition, Demons, Dictator, Disease, Divine, Dostoevsky, Dubious Reputatin, Enigma, Epilepsy, Exceed, Father Zosima, Fight, Fool's Game, Freedoms, God Above, Good and Evil, Grasp, Greatest Miracle, Heart, Heresy, Holy, Initiation, Light, Line, Love, Masses, Mismatch, Mystery, Mysticism, Opiate, Photograph, Poem, Poietry, Preach, Protagonist, Pure, Putin, Questions, Quiet, Reason, Religion, Revolutionary, Riot, Russia, Russian Nation, Russian Soul, Serfdom, Shadow, Shape, Slavery, Super-Impose, Trappings, Treason, Unsure, Violence, Wastrel, Western Civilization, Wicked, Writer
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God Revealed In the Smallest Details
God Revealed In the Smallest Detailsby Michael DoyleThe eyes might be the windows of the soulBut it’s the little things that elude controlWhere through the lenses of macrophotographyWe become consumed with our use of technologyIt all opens up a new … Continue reading
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Tagged Autofocus, Background, Best Friend, Best Hour, Color, Composition, Consume, Created, Deep, Definition, Details, Elude Control, Embrace, Enhance, Extraordinary, Eyes, Face, Flower, Found, Friend, Gaze, God, Heartbreaks, Hint, Lense, Light, Little Things, Macrophotography, Masterpiece, Mistakes, New World, Ordinary, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reveal, Simple, Small, Soft, Soul, Tale, Tear, Technology, The Greatest Artist, Three Dimensions, Trace, True, View, Windows
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Keeping Our Truth
Keeping Our Truthby Michael DoyleReaching out in my cognitionHoping that my thoughts and perceptionsMight find a little recognitionAnd from that grow some receptionLiving life under another’s definitionPoints in mockery at the deceptionAs we walk this world in disguiseKeeping our truth … Continue reading
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Tagged After, Best Outcome, Bold, Certain, Choice, Chose, Cognition, Creativity, Deception, Definition, Destination, Destiny, Disguise, Do the Math, Edge, Explore, Eyes, Find My Way, Grow, Head, Imagination, Inner Voice, Journey, Keep, Know, Laughter, Living Life, Mock, Originality, Other, Path, Perceptions, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Reaching Out, Reception, Recognition, Restrain, Step, Stumble, Thoughts, Truth, Walk, World
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On Being Indigenous In the 21st Century
On Being Indigenous In the 21st Centuryby Michael DoyleIn this world of the modern ageWhen most wish to appear a wise sageIt is pithy to posture and sayIn that pseudo-intellectual wayThat the indigenous follow Mother Nature’s wayThough if you were … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Amazonia, America, Ask Us, Blame, Boundaries, China, Coffee, Community, Continuity, Corrupt, Cultivation, Definition, Desire, Dignity, Distinguished, Diversity, DNA, Empires, Encode, Endure, Europe, Exclusion, Explanation, Extremes, Family, Finger Pointing, Flags, Forfeit, Grit, Havoc, Heads, History, Identity, Inclusion, Indigenous, Knowing, Language, Less, Limited, Marginalized, Modern Age, Modern Life, Modern World, Mother Nature, Native Tongues, New Nation, Peoples, Percaption, Photograph, Place, Poem, Poetry, Posture, Poverty, Power, Pseudo-Intellectual, Sage, Same, Save, Skill, Slash and Burn, Soul, Sovereignty, Stain, Strife, Surrender, Symbolic, Teeth, Thinking, Tribes, Vulnerability, Wise, World War Two
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