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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, Property of No Sort Is Duly Respected
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)
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Tagged Excess, Faculties, First Principles, In Opinions, James Madison, No Person, Person, Possessions, Power, Prevail, Property, Respected, Safe
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Don Quixote Reexamined
A hidalgo or minor nobleman gets so lost in his reading that he mistakes folklore regarding chivalry as the path of history that will lead him and through him the world to greater nobility. The intention being good. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Account, Admonishment, Beautiful, Borrowed Time, Cervantes, Chivalry, Comic, Complexity, Correct, Don Quixote, Embrace, Examine, Excess, Fantasies, Fiction, Folklore, Folly, Good Magic, Hidalgo, History, Human Mind, Intention, Journey, Knight Errant, Lady, Laughter, Lent, Life, Literary, Mad, Man, Moments, Musical, Name, Nobility, Nobleman, Pages, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Practicalities, Practice, Preach, Railing, Reach, Read, Reading, Real, Reveal, Sad, Sally, Sights, Simplicity, Spent, Substance, Tales, Tear, Tragic, Understand, Unique, Utterances, Wrong Conclusions
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First Principles: It Is Absolutely Necessary That the President Should Have the Power of Removing His Subordinates From Office
“I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing his subordinates from office; it will make him, in a peculiar manner, responsible for their conduct, and subject him to impeachment himself, if he suffers them … Continue reading
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Tagged Conduct, Excess, First Principles, High Crimes, Impeachment, Impunity, James Madison, Misdemeanors, Necessary, Neglect, Office, Perpetarte, Power, President, Remove, Responsibile, Subordinates, United States
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First Principles: Failing To Pay Attention To the World’s Details Prevents All But A Few From Seeing and Discovering God
“That the discovery of this great truth, which lies so near and obvious to the mind, should be attained to by the reason of so very few, is a sad instance of the stupidity and inattention of men, who, though … Continue reading
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Tagged Blind, Deity, Discover, Evidence, Excess, First Principles, George Berkeley, Great Truth, Inattention, Light, Mankind, Mind, Reason, Surround
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First Principles: Where An Excess of Power Prevails, No Person Is Safe As To Opinion, Person, Faculties or Possessions
“Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.” – James Madison (1792)
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Tagged Excess, Faculties, First Principles, James Madison, Opinion, Person, Possession, Power, Prevail, Property, Respect, Safe
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First Principles: The Power To Tax Is the Power To Destroy
“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” –– John Marshall, McCullough v. Maryland, 1819 If you care to do so, please, … Continue reading
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