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First Principles: A Republic, If You Can Keep It.
“A republic, if you can keep it.” – Benjamin Franklin After the Biden Administration has repetitively stressed calling the American way of life over and over again, it seems there is no better time to remind those misinformed to read … Continue reading
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First Principles: We Base All Our Experiments On the Capacity of Mankind For Self-Government
“We base all our experiments on the capacity of mankind for self-government.” – James Madison
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First Principles: In Disquisitions of Every Kind There Are Certain Primary Truths, or First Principles, Upon Which All Subsequent Reasoning Must Depend
“In disquisitions of every kind there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasoning must depend.” – Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 20 (1788)
First Principles: The Citizens of America Have Too Much Discernment To Be Argued Into Anarchy
“The citizens of America have too much discernment to be argued into anarchy. and I am much mistaken if experience has not wrought a deep and solemn conviction in the public mind that greater energy of government is essential to … Continue reading
First Principles: State Governments Retain All Rights of Sovereignty Before Had and Not Exclusively Delegated To the United States
“But as the plan of the convention aims only at a partial union or consolidation, the State governments would clearly retain all the rights of sovereignty which they before had, and which were not, by that act, EXCLUSIVELY delegated to … Continue reading
First Principles: The Very Definition of Tyranny Is When All Powers Are Gathered Under One Place
“The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.” – James Madison in The Federalist No. 47
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A New Nation Born Pt II
The American story series continues… A New Nation Born Pt II by Michael Doyle In the haphazard wake of 1776 There were so many constructs to fix The ancients had always taught Only a smallish sized republic should be sought … Continue reading
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First Principles: The Safety and Happiness of Society Are the Objects At Which All Political Institutions Aim and To Which All Such Institutions Must Be Sacrificed
“The safety and happiness of society are the objects at which all political institutions aim, and to which all such institutions must be sacrificed.” – James Madison, The Federalist No. 43
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First Principles: Division Is Naturally Sown Among Mankind
“The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.” – James Madison, Federalist No. 10 (1787)
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First Principles: Power’s Encroaching Nature Must Be Restrained
“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, in Federalist 48
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