America's Greatness
Posted by j_IR1776wg 8 years, 3 months ago to Government
America's greatness lies in those principles enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the first ten amendments of the Constitution. While the Constitution is not perfect, as Rand pointed out, the clear intent of the framers was to ensure that future generations of Americans would enjoy the benefits of the Rights affirmed viz. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. They did this by limiting the Government's power to inflict tyranny on the people. Every one of the first ten amendments is a chain link forged around the ankles of government employees elected or hired which prevents them from imposing such tyranny.
Principles are values. They suffer no defect from time or the unwise. They are, by definition, either true or not true. They cannot be parsed by regulation, are not applicable to one citizen but not another, and cannot be denied by the howling of the mob.
The sole reason the American form of government has persisted for two and a half centuries is that enough citizens understood the meaning of the DOI and the BOR. It should not come as a shock that there exist people who do not believe that Individuals should be free and independent beings and that government should have no limits placed on them to control the lives of Individuals down to minutest degree. In the recent election, H. Clinton was pressed to agree that Americans had the right to bear arms. After a short period of evasion she replied that yes people had a right to own guns but like all rights they were subject to "reasonable regulation."
So did America stop being great? And when? Did its decline stem from the original Commerce Clause? "The Commerce Clause describes an enumerated power listed in the United States Constitution (Article I, Section 8, Clause 3). The clause states that the United States Congress shall have power "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes.""
Or was the beginning of the end traceable to the advent of the Interstate Commerce Commission in 1887 as I suggested on this post?
https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...
It is impossible to put a date and time on the decline and fall of America. But to trivialize and deny the loss of individual rights can only be the work of fools.
What would that look like? Would it be like when were hunter/gatherer tribes? Or were when then ruled by tribal chiefs?
how about ... or not being ruled at all?
Sorry, I'm finding this website nearly impossible when trying to write to threads which became too narrow to work with.
Thus I'll be trying to post here a 2007 article by Prof Peter T Leeson which was lost from my website. It's gonna be difficult because it is in .pdf format which I must somehow convert to usable text, then repost to noruler.net and finally link back to here. Seems here this is my only way of letting you know what's going on, as I don't care to pay membership fee for this website. You might try striker at noruler.net if you have the savvy.
I'm wasting space speculating. We'll know the answer when the budget passes.
The compensation of Britain’s 46,000 slave owners was the largest bailout in British history until the bailout of the banks in 2009. Not only did the slaves receive nothing, under another clause of the act they were compelled to provide 45 hours of unpaid labour each week for their former masters, for a further four years after their supposed liberation. In effect, the enslaved paid part of the bill for their own manumission.
The records of the Slave Compensation Commission are an unintended byproduct of the scheme. They represent a near complete census of British slavery as it was on 1 August, 1834, the day the system ended. For that one day we have a full list of Britain’s slave owners. All of them. The T71s tell us how many slaves each of them owned, where those slaves lived and toiled, and how much compensation the owners received for them. Although the existence of the T71s was never a secret, it was not until 2010 that a team from University College London began to systematically analyse them. The Legacies of British Slave-ownership project, which is still continuing, is led by Professor Catherine Hall and Dr Nick Draper, and the picture of slave ownership that has emerged from their work is not what anyone was expecting.
The large slave owners, the men of the “West India interest”, who owned huge estates from which they drew vast fortunes, appear in the files of the commission. The man who received the most money from the state was John Gladstone, the father of Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone. He was paid £106,769 in compensation for the 2,508 slaves he owned across nine plantations, the modern equivalent of about £80m. Given such an investment, it is perhaps not surprising that William Gladstone’s maiden speech in parliament was in defence of slavery.
The records show that for the 218 men and women he regarded as his property, Charles Blair, the great-grandfather of George Orwell, was paid the more modest sum of £4,442 – the modern equivalent of about £3m. There are other famous names hidden within the records. Ancestors of the novelist Graham Greene, the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the architect Sir George Gilbert Scott all received compensation for slaves. As did a distant ancestor of David Cameron. But what is interesting Is women numbered 40% of "owners".
and had the first social security system in 1889.
https://www.ssa.gov/history/ottob.html
They brought Kant's philosophy and their socialism with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery...
But not surprised
that you wish to be Ruled!
its reference to "priveleges and immunities of
citizens of the United States") was passed.
The Ominous Parallels (not that he or anyone else is infallible),it began with American tycoons' sending their offspring to colleges in Europe, particularly Germany, where they learned Kantian philosophy.After which, they began not
to believe in or accept the individual rights of
man. So the other things (antitrust, Roosevelt's
New Deal, LBJ's "Great Society") followed.
How much do you think spending will decrease in FY2018 vs FY2017? Do you think deficits will be higher or lower?
As to websites, you might start with my own http://noruler.net. I've been lax with that of late, hope to move toward some final chapters soon.
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