Posted on 09/18/2017 1:32:30 PM PDT by Borges
Repealing the 17th Amendment and the 16th Amendment would be good steps back towards constitutional government.
I’m not a Ron Paul apologist, although he’s right about a number of things. I’d be interested in hearing how a limited-government, states-rights conservative defends Hamilton.
Proto-progressivism?
I read your quote from Story, and in no way does it refute what Dr. Paul said about him.
Lincoln centralized power in ways that the authors of Amendment X did not anticipate. He did so to “save the Union,” thus denying the sovereign states their ultimate measure to take when the Federal government encroaches. It had nothing to do with freeing the slaves — as Mr. Lincoln himself admitted. Otherwise, he would have freed those in states that remained in the Union.
If you can believe Broadway, Hamilton would have been the very first affirmative action hire. /s Been screwing up America ever since.
Late night bookmark.
Thanks for the ping.
CONgre$$ [progre$$ive$] through abdication and/or acquiescence is complicit in this totalitarian troika [government].
eg: A recent iteration - Robertscare - unsettled law? More socialism FORCED upon U.S.
DEFUND/DISMANTLE/DESTROY (as necessary) socialist/totalitarian collectives, foreign and domestic.
live - free - republic
Easy. In Hamilton's day, the US needed a more powerful federal government. Even Hamilton's arch-enemy Thomas Jefferson admitted as much as soon as he became President. The US Military Academy, US Navy, the Louisiana Purchase, a national bank, were all very controversial at the time. Today, everyone sober concedes that Hamilton's Federalists were correct.
But Hamilton did indeed strengthen the central government. I has helped to build the counry but also lead to our current predicament.
Hmm, the comments so far are unusually mild. You are right in that “Hamilton” posts typically degrade into Two Minutes Hate tirades by people woefully ignorant of the man.
I’ll concede that many things, that many believe made America great, may yet prove to be our undoing.
How was the federal government encroaching in 1861?
It had nothing to do with freeing the slaves — as Mr. Lincoln himself admitted.
If you read the speeches of the Southern leaders of the time it had everything to do with keeping slaves.
Thanks for the ping. Has anyone recently been to the National Archives building and seen the original BOR?
Are the Ninth and Tenth amendments still there?
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Thank you. I am well aware Lincoln did not go to war to free the slaves. But the South certainly went to war to keep them.
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