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The Eye of the Storm
The Eye of the Stormby Michael DoyleTo find the eye of the passing storm in life’s wildernessIs to find quiet hope in the chaos approached in the stillnessWhere the arts find our attention despite all life’s distractionsThe place where somehow … Continue reading
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Tagged Approve, Articulate, Attention, Attraction, Blind, Blossom, Bold, Burial, Chaos, Character, Civilization, Classic Construct, Complexity, Conformed Silence, Contrary, Cruel, Dead, Dignity, Distraction, Duality, Exceed, Eye, Focal Point, Form, Grow, Head, Institutions, Intellect's Community, Intuition, Intuitively, Jedi Masters, Know, Law, Literary, Literature, Long Ago, Mind, Missed Point, Mummy, Mystery, Notions, Obsolete, Plead, Poetry and Poems, Prioirty, Pseudo-Intellectuals, Question, Quiet Hope, Reader, Remember, Respectable Leaders, Right Words, Seeds, Seeker's Soul, Sin, Soft, Sought, Soul, Source, Stillness, Stopped Thinking, Storm, Tapestry, Technicalities, The Arts, Thinking, Thought, Threads, True Impressions, Truth, Tyranny, Unblinking, Unfilled Page, Unkind, Villiany, Warning Signs, Whitness, Wildnerness
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First Principles: Law and Liberty Cannot Rationally Become the Objects of Our Love, Unless They First Become of the Objects of Our Knowledge
“Law and liberty cannot rationally become the objects of our love, unless they first become the objects of our knowledge.” – James Wilson (1790)
First Principles: That Form of Government Which Is Best Contrived To Secure An Impartial and Exact Execution of the Laws, Is the Best of Republics
“That form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the laws, is the best of republics.” – John Adams (1776)
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Tagged Best, Contrivee, Execution, First Principles, Form, Government, Impartial, John Adams, Law, Republlic, Secure
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Thought For the Day: Where-ever Law Ends, Tyranny Begins
“Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.” – John Locke, in Two Treatises of Government (1689)
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Tagged Begin, End, John Locke, Law, Thought For the Day, Two Treatises of Government (1689), Tyranny, Wherever
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First Principles: Governments Do Not Make Ideals, But Ideals Make Governments
“Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course, the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source … Continue reading
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Tagged Calvin Coolidge, Character, Create, Enactment, First Principles, Governments, Historical, Ideals, Institutions, Law, Logic, Nation, Nature, Observance, Observed, Source, Sustain, The People
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First Principles: Far From Being Rivals or Enemies, Religion and Law Are Twin Sisters, Friends, and Mutual Assistants
“Far from being rivals or enemies, religion and law are twin sisters, friends, and mutual assistants. Indeed, these two sciences run into each other. The divine law, as discovered by reason and the moral sense, forms an essential part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Discover, Divine Law, Enemies, Essential, First Principles, James Wilson, Law, Moral Sense, Reason, Religion, Rivals, Twin Sisters
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Thought For the Day: The Phrase “No One Is Above the Law” Has A Corollary: No One Should Be Below the Law. Equal Justice Ought To Be the Goal
“The phrase ‘no one is above the law’ has a corollary: no one should be below the law. Equal justice ought to be the goal, not using the Department of Justice as a political weapon to destroy an opponent.” – … Continue reading
First Principles: Without Justice Being Freely, Fully, and Impartially Administered, Neither Our Persons, Nor Our Rights, Nor Our Property, Can Be Protected
“Without justice being freely, fully, and impartially administered, neither our persons, nor our rights, nor our property, can be protected. And if these, or either of them, are regulated by no certain laws, and are subject to no certain principles, … Continue reading
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Tagged Fail, First Principles, Free, Impartial, Joseph Story, Justice, Law, Persons, Principles, Property, Protected, Remedy, Rights, Society, Tenure, Value
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First Principles: The General Government Is Not To Be Charged With the Whole Power of Making and Administering Laws: Its Jurisdiction Is Limited To Certain Enumerated Objects
“The general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained … Continue reading
First Principles: All the Children Are Trained Up To This Kind of Knowledge: They Are Accustomed From Their Earliest Years To Read the Holy Scriptures
“Among the customs which are universal among the people, in all parts of the state, one that seems worthy of remark, is, the attention that is paid to the education of children. The aim of the parent, is not so … Continue reading
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Tagged 1794, Aim, Arithmetic, Attention, Children, Common and Universal, Customs, Education, First Principles, Harvard College, Holy Scriptures, Knowledge, Law, Liberal Arts and Sciences, Newspapers, Occupations of Life, Parent, Periodical Publications, Political Pamphlets, Proceedings, Red, Samuel Adams, The Natural and Civil History of Vermont, The People, Write
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