Posted on 05/16/2013 3:14:21 PM PDT by TBP
mistrust of government is as old as America itself. America was born out of mistrust of government. The revolution that was fought in the 1770s and 1780s was won in the minds of Colonists in the mid-1760s when the British imposed the Stamp Act and used writs of assistance to enforce it. The Stamp Act required all people in the Colonies to have government-sold stamps on all documents in their possession, and writs of assistance permitted search warrants written by British troops in which they authorized themselves to enter private homes ostensibly to look for the stamps.
These two pieces of legislation were so unpopular in the Colonies that the British Parliament rescinded the Stamp Act and the king’s ministers reduced the use of soldier-written search warrants. Still, the searches for the stamps turned the tide of Colonial opinion irreversibly against the king.
The reason Mr. Obama likes government, and the reason it is “a dangerous fire,” as George Washington warned, and the reason I have been warning against government tyranny in my public work is all the same: The government rejects the natural law because it is an obstacle to its control over us. The natural law is divinely embedded in our souls. It is manifested by the universal yearning for freedom and justice. It consists of areas of human behavior — thought, expression, religion, self-defense, travel, acquisition and use of property, and privacy, for example — in which our behavior is subject only to the exercise of our free will and not the permission of our neighbors or regulation by the government. The natural law, properly understood, is a restraint on the government.
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Ditto that, Here Come Da Judge!
People thought that issue had been resolved about 1702 ~ bwahahahaha!
Then, there were the Scots ~ in that same year they were debarking by the boatload on Smuggler's Creek, a Potomac River tributary ~ where their prison barges landed.
A Russian friend of mine decided that's the year, and the place, the American Revolution began ~ I tend to agree.
There's no historic marker up for that particular arrival you know. They followed the river all the way to a portage to I believe the New River, which is the oldest river in America, and headed for Alexander county.
Bttt.
Currently used by prohibition police troops in the WOD against US Citizens!
Either we are gonna be a Free Republic or NOT!
Ha! New tag line!
>> Yet, self-rule here has been unjust and has brought us the tyranny of the majority.
>> All of these violations of the natural law were approved by the majority when undertaken.
>> Because the tyranny of the majority can be as dangerous to freedom as the tyranny of a madman, all use of governmental power should be challenged and questioned.
Our Framers recognized the problem of majority rule. It is why they created a Senate of the States. The 17th Amendment must go. Democracy is killing our republic.
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