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Thought For the Day: The Tyranny of the Many Would Be When One Body Takes Over the Rights of Others, and Then Exercises Its Power To Change the Laws In Its Favor
“The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.” – Voltaire (1694-1778)
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Tagged Change the Laws, Exercise, In Its Favor, Many, One Body, Power, Rights of Others, Takes Over, Thought For the Day, Tyranny, Voltaire
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First Principles: I Know No Safe Depository of the Ultimate Power of the Society But the People Themselves
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading
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Tagged Control, Discretion, Enlighten, Eucation, Exercise, First Principles, Inform, Remedy, Safe Depository, Society, Take It, The People, Thomas Jefferson, Ultimate Powers, Wholesome
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Covid and the Constitution
Covid and the Constitutionby Michael DoyleVoices arrayed together against an institutionOut of control of the reining in by the ConstitutionChecks and balances swept away along with our rightsStill, we ride forward like beleaguered knightsStay at home orders meant for communicable … Continue reading
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Tagged 14th Amendment, Abeyance, Abuse of Authority, Adversity, Aghast, America, Array, Ask, Beautiful, Beleaguered Knights, Best Practices, Blight, Bureaucrats, Case, Casinos, Chains, Checks and Balances, Churches, Closed Down, Constitution, Contrarian, Conversation, Cost of Silence, Course, Covid, Crown, Current Crisis, Death or Liberty, Decision, Deliberation, Desperate Situation, Dictate, Draconian Regulation, Economy, Effective, Embrace, Emergency Police Powers, Enforcement Issues, Executive Branch, Executive Dictate, Exercise, Face, Fail, Federal, Feduce, Force, Forgiving, Fray, Free, Freedom, Freedoms, Functionalism, Good Citizens, Governance, Government, Great, Health, History, Hour, Institution, Interpretation, Irritation, Jeopardy, Laboring Oar, Legal, Legislation, Legislature, Libertarian, Liberty, Limitation, Lives Lived, Looking Out, Loss of Our Liberty, Lost Liberty, Machination, Make A Living, Mankind, Mask, Money, Nation, Natural Law, Nature, New Normal, Noble, Open, Others Will Take, Out of Control, Overbearing, Partisan Warfare, Peaceful Assembly, Permanent Emergency, Perspective, Philosophy, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Point, Political Landscape, Pretending, Price, Protected Right, Pushback, Question, Quiet, Rationalism, Recall, Rein In, Restrain, Right, Rights, Rigor, Rule of Law, Safety, Samuel Adams, Sealed Fate, Security, Seize, Separation of Powers, Soul of Our Nation, States, Stay At Home Orders, Steps, Strangle, Stripping Away, Strong Enough, Surrender, Suspension, Swept Away, Technocrats, The Courts, The People, Today, True Representation, Ugly, Unending, Unfair, Urgency, Virtue Signaling, Virus, Vocal, Voices, We The People, Welfare, Withstand, Worse
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First Principles: The Safe Depository of the Ultimate Powers of American Society Is the People Themselves
“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from … Continue reading
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Tagged Abuse, Constitutional Power, Control, Corrective, Depository, Discretion, Education, Enlighten, Exercise, First Principles, Inform, Powers, Remedy, Safe, Society, The People, Thomas Jefferson, True
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First Principles: Government Should Be Formed To Secure and Enlarge the Exercise of the Natural Rights of Its Members
“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of … Continue reading
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Tagged Enlarge, Exercise, First Principles, Form, Government, James Wilson, Legitimate, Members, Natural Rights, Opinion, Principal Object, Secure
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Thought For the Day: A Tyranny Exercised For the Good of Its Victims May Be the Most Oppressive
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive… To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not even regard as disease is to be put on … Continue reading
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Tagged CS Lewis, Cure, Exercise, Good, Oppressive, Thought For the Day, Tyrannies, Tyranny, Victim, Will
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First Principles: Liberty Consists In Freedom To Do All Desired That Injures No One Without Limit Except To Assure This Right To Everyone Else
“Liberty consists in the freedom to do everything which injures no one else; hence the exercise of the natural rights of each man has no limits except those which assure to the other members of the society the enjoyment of … Continue reading
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Tagged Enjoy, Exercise, First Principle, Freedom, Injure, Liberty, Limit, Mankind, Maquis de Lafayette, Natural Rights, Rights, Society
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First Principles: Racism Has No Proper Place Except An Oppressive Error To Be Learned About From History
“We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.” – James Madison (1787)
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Tagged Color, Distinction, Dominion, Enlightenment, Exercise, First Principles, James Madison, Man Over Man, Oppression, Racism
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Thought For the Day: Give Each Other The Space To Grow and Be Ourselves
“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, … Continue reading
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Tagged Dignity, Exercise, Gift, Give, Grow, Healing, Idea, Inclusion, Joy, Max de Pree, Openness, Space, Thought For the Day
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First Principles: To Vote Is To Execute One of the Most Solemn Trusts In Society
“Let each citizen remember at the moment he is offering his vote that he is not making a present or a compliment to please an individual — or at least that he ought not so to do; but that he … Continue reading
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Tagged Accountable, Citizen, Compliment, Country, Executing, Exercise, First Principles, God, Samuel Adams, Society, Solemn Trust, Vote
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