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First Principles: On Every Question of Construction Carry Ourselves Back To the Time the Constitution Was Adopted, Recollect the Spirit Manifested In the Debates
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adopt, Conform, Constitution, Construction, Debate, First Principles, Invent, Meaning, Passed, Probable, Question, Spirit, Squeeze, Text, Thomas Jefferson
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First Principles: On Every Question of Construction Carry Ourselves Back To the Time When the Constitution Was Adopted, Recollect the Spirit Manifested In the Debates
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, … Continue reading
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Tagged Adopted, Conform, Constitution, Debates, First Principles, Invested, Meaning, Passed, Probable, Question of Construction, Spirit Manifested, Squeezed, Text, Thomas Jefferson, Time
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Tribalisms of Empathy
Society’s kindness has gone markedly down as we tend to polarize and communicate online via social media more. It’s sort of sparking a lot of interest, particularly in these times of social isolation, in getting folks to begin dialoging … Continue reading
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Tagged Act, Acts, All In This Together, Amibition, Angry, Anonymity, Best, Better, Biology, Blindness, Bold, Break Down, Brutal, Burn, Challenge, Clues, Cold, Communicate, Communication, Community, Concern, Connection, Contagion, Control, Decline, Dehumanization, Dialog, Difference, Diminish, Direction, Disconnect, Edge, Empathy, Face to Face, Fear, Feelings, Fluid, Forget, Forward, Genes, Gradient, Hard, Harsh, Heart, Heredity, Human, Impersonal, Inference, Inhibition, Isolation, Kindness, Know, Life, Loss, Marsh, Meanness, Mirror, Morass, Nation, Need, Nuance, Pain, Photograph, Physiology, Poem, Poetry, Points of View, Polarize, Prevalence, Reality, Realm, Refine, Remove, Rise, Sad, Selfishness, Social Isolation, Social Media, Society, Spark, Startle, Sympathy, Text, Together, Tribal, Trust, Umbrella, Voice, Voices, Walk, Wobble, World
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Ring, Ring Rings the Phone
Today is both National Call A Friend Day and National Chocolate Candy Day! In honor of this, to paraphrase a military tradition, ‘eat them if you got ’em’ and call a friend if only to tell that person or persons … Continue reading
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Tagged Bliss, Box of Chocolate, Care, Choice, Christmas, Coco, Coconut Curry, Confectionery, Dares, Days, Dictionary, Dreams, Good, Happiness, Hours, Hurry, Imagination, Lose, Minutes, National Call A Friend Day, National Chocolate Candy Day, Nights, Phone, Photograph, Pleasant, Poem, Poetry, Quiet, Realize, Ring, Seconds, Seem, Share, Sit, Spent, Squares, Sudden, Text, Three, Tonight, Voice
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