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First Principles: No Government, Any More Than An Individual, Will Long Be Respected Without Being Truly Respectable
“No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable.” – James Madison (1788)
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The Sting of A Yellow Jacket
The Sting of A Yellow Jacketby Michael DoyleNaughty narrative braids togetherA story of coming of age but betterTwo tracks made into one storyNeither of them qualifying for gloryHigh school drama can be brutalityEven without its incessant fatalityAs childhood comes to … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anarchy, Anxieties, Apart, Barbarity, Brewing, Brutality, Campfire, Childhood, Cling, Coming of Age, Complexity, Dreams, Embers, Emotional Undoing, Ends, Fatality, Fingers, Friend, Gore, Growing Pains, Hierarchy, High School Drama, Hormones, Iconic, Indolence, Instability, Intentions, Ironic, Lethal Stew, Lingers, Losing Touch, Narrative, Naughty, Negotiation, Poetry and Poems, Process, Qualify, Question, Remembers, Scars, Simplicity, Smothered, Stars, Sting, Swore, Threads, Toxicity, Transforms, True, Two Tracks, Woods, Yellow Jacket
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First Principles: The Instability of Our Laws Is Really An Immense Evil
“The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bare Majority, Constitution, Evil, First Principles, Instability, Law, Passage, Thomas Jefferson, Two Thirds of Both Houses
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On the Articles of Confederation
In these down times, I am taking a moment to reexamine and better understand the Constitution. The following is a look at the deficiencies of the Articles of Confederation under which America arose as a nation. On the Articles … Continue reading →
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Tagged America, Anarchy, Anchor, Articles of Confederation, Bane, Cede, Central, Change, Citizen, Consent, Constitution, Debt, Different, Dignity, Discovery, Doubt, Economy, Extreme, God, Government, History, Inflated, Instability, Just, Legislative, Liberty, Life, Light, Majority, Meant, Paper Money, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Power, Problems, Protection, Purpose, Pursuit, Recovery, Religous Minorities, Resolution, Responsive, Revolution, Rights, Secure, Sovereignty, States, Supremacy, Tyranny, United States, Value, War
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The Dark Days of Great War
American History marches on into World War I. The Dark Days of Great War by Michael Doyle Like a thunderstorm in the darkest night The Great War descended in Europe’s sight Suddenly, it seemed that August night All of its … Continue reading →
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