Tag Archives: Government

First Principles: Power Should Be Restrained From Encroaching

Posted on December 23, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“It will not be denied that power is of an encroaching nature and that it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.” –James Madison, Federalist No. 48, 1788

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First Principles: Excessive Taxation Brings the Ruin of A Nation

Posted on December 22, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“There is no part of the administration of government that requires extensive information and a thorough knowledge of the principles of political economy, so much as the business of taxation. The man who understands those principles best will be least … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Main Purpose of the Constitution Is To Bind Government From Mischief

Posted on December 19, 2017 by alohapromisesforever

“In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.” — Thomas Jefferson (1798) If Jefferson had been alive during the Obama Administration in … Continue reading →

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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 →