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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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Dealing With the New Deal
American history continues into the 1930s and the Great Depression. Dealing With the New Deal by Michael Doyle Had Coolidge been in power for Wall Street’s fall The safe bet is he would have done little or nothing at all … Continue reading
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Tagged 10%, 100 Days, 1930s, 1937, Activist, Administration, Alphabet Soup, American History, Blind, Callous, Change, Complexity, Confidence, Constitution, Coolidge, Cornerstone, Cycle, Destroy, Door, Economy, Employment, Executive Overreach, Executive War Powers, Experts, Fall Apart, FDR, Federal, Feed, Finance, Fireside Chat, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frustration, Government, Great Depression, Grief, Hawley-Smoot Tariff, Heart, Hodge Podge, Homes, Infrastructure, Integrity, Intrusion, Issues, Legacy, Legislation, Live On, Lost, Make Work Jobs, Money Changers, Moral Equivalent, Nation, New Deal, NRA, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Opposition, Optimism, Overwhelm, Packing the Court, Patch, Photograph, Planning, Poem, Poetry, Policy, Polio, Power, Power Grab, Program, Public, Rationalization, Reconstruction and Fiance Company, Recovery, Reelection, Reliance, Relief, Restore, Roosevelt Recession, Simplicity, Social Security, Socialist, Supreme Court, Temperament, Temple, The Happy Days Are Here Again, Top-Down Economy, Unemployed, Unemployment Rate, Victory, Wall Street, War
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End of the Frontier
Between the 1870s to the early 1900s, American society became a vast sea of sea change in matters of all forms of transformation going on at once. End of the Frontier by Michael Doyle The travesty of the Civil War … Continue reading
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Tagged America, Assimilation, Big, Big Business, Blessing, Bold, City, Civilization, Cohesion, Columbus, Commerce, Commodity, Corporation, Curse, Development, End, Exploration, Face, Family Business, Federal, Finance, Foreign Born, Frederick Turner, Frontier, Gains, Grand Review, Hero, History, Immigration, Industrialization, Industry, Infrastructure, JP Morgan, Labor, Losses, Melting Pot, Moderinization, Modern, Money, Moot, Nation, National Power, Nature, Oil, Peril, Photograph, Pluralism, Poem, Poetry, Population, Power, Profession, Providence, Railroad, Republican Values, Revitalization, Rockefeller, Salad, Sea Change, Society, Spirit of the West, Town, Transformation, Transportation, Unification, Urban, Virtue, Washington D.C., World Columbian Exposition
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First Principles: The Foundation of the Constitution Rests On Adhering To the Boundaries of the Tenth Amendment
“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
First Principles: The Federal Government Is Limited In Its Powers
“All questions of power, arising under the constitution of the United States, whether they relate to the federal or a state government, must be considered of great importance. The federal government being formed for certain purposes, is limited in its … Continue reading
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Tagged Authority, Constitution, Delegation, Exercise Authority, Federal, First Principles, Justice John McLean, Limits, Power, State, United States
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First Principles: The More Powerful the Federal Government Grows, the Weaker the State Governments Become
“[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another.” – Thomas Jefferson, letter to … Continue reading
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Tagged Centered, Charles Hammond, Checks, Federal, First Principles, Government, Powerless, Powers, State Government, Thomas Jefferson, Washington D.C.
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First Principles: We Must Be Cautious Least Senators Become Citizens of the Capital and Not Their States
“Those gentlemen, who will be elected senators, will fix themselves in the federal town, and become citizens of that town more than of your state.” — George Mason (1788)
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Tagged Federal, First Principles, George Mason, Government, Priorities, Senators, State
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First Principles: It Is the Nature of the Federal Government’s Constraints and Limitations That Makes Our Government Just
“Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will … Continue reading
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