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First Principles: Tyranny Can Appear Under Any Form of Government

Posted on December 18, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The outstretched arm of tyranny … may appear under any mode or form of government.” – Mercy Warren (1805) And that is precisely what is going on with this witch hunt against the Trump Administration. Revealed again in recent testimony … Continue reading →

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First Principles: We Must Be Equal Before the Law or Equally Enslaved

Posted on December 16, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.” – Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755)

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First Principles: Assimilation Is Best Encouraged

Posted on December 14, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the Language, habits and principles (good or bad) which they … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Useful Law Needs To Be Able To Be Easily Read and Understood

Posted on December 12, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” – … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Human Institutions Are Prone To Decay

Posted on December 11, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Honest Persons Find No Pleasure In Coercive Power

Posted on December 10, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.” — Thomas Jefferson (1813)

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First Principles: A Nation Should Avoid Perpetual Debt

Posted on December 9, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” –Thomas Jefferson

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Thought For the Day: A Government That Loses Control of Finances, Loses Its Destiny

Posted on December 8, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“When the world looks at us today, they see an American government that cannot live within its means. They see an American government that continues to borrow money that will mortgage the future of generations to come. The world knows … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Excessive Taxation Is Little More Than Extortion

Posted on December 4, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“When more of the people’s sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of a free government.” –President … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Government Acts Not Enabled By the Constitution Are Illegal

Posted on November 28, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“[S]hould Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the government, such [acts are] not the law of the land.” –John Marshall, McCulloch v. Maryland, 1819 Back in the day, … Continue reading →

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