[The Raven]

Allow me to repeat [this is good!]

..This is grotesquely at odds with our founding philosophy of man's inalienable rights, that each man is an end in himself and not a sacrificial object of society. If we let self-sacrifice be our moral ideal, we've given government the means of enslaving us, and liberty, to the extent it exists, will be by permission, rather than right.

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[Free the USA]

Great post
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[Dawgsquat]

"Free government is founded in jealousy, not confidence. It is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind those we are obliged to trust with power.... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in men, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitutions." -- Thomas Jefferson, 1799

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." -- Thomas Jefferson to Archibald Stuart, 1791.

"[Oppose] with manly firmness [any] invasions on the rights of the people." -- Thomas Jefferson: Draft Virginia Constitution, 1776. Papers, 1:338

[AAABEST]

This is grotesquely at odds with our founding philosophy of man's inalienable rights, that each man is an end in himself and not a sacrificial object of society. If we let self-sacrifice be our moral ideal, we've given government the means of enslaving us, and liberty, to the extent it exists, will be by permission, rather than right.

Quote of the week. People (even many on this forum), have become "freedom challenged".

The very meaning of pathetic is when people will work literally half their lives for the government and still be happy as a pig in a mudhole.

I'd be shocked if this thread got anyhwhere near 50 responses.

[jimkress]

Excellent article!

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[jimkress]

Excellent article!

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[Libertarianize the GOP]

good post

[damnlimey]

Good stuff
Bump.

Quote: "So long as Americans can be convinced that they need to apply for
a privilege to exercise a right they can expect to be denied their rights"

[breakem]

I might add that the dems and the repubs both are part of this problem.

[LarryLied]

In Slouching Toward Gommorah, Robert Bork wrote that George Washington made the 10th amendment a dead letter. But he wasn't specific. Anyone know to which action(s) of Washington Bork referred?

[Waco Uppo]

bttt

[denydenydeny]

There are plenty of jurists around who still believe in the 10th Amendment.

But whether we like it or not it requires a Republican president and a Republican congress to appoint them.

[RnMomof7]

FYI

[FairWitness]

The federal government,which should be a last resort to problem solving, has become too often the first resort.

[Politically Correct]

BTTT

[doubtfullyhopefull]

Homeschool.

[lentulusgracchus]

Thanks for the post, and the discussion. This is an excellent thread -- and I saved my shortcut to the Touro Law webpage for Marshall's "constitutional inversion" decision, Maryland vs. McCulloch -- excellent.

[lentulusgracchus]

So in March, 1937, Roosevelt had a little chat with America. He told the people he was trying to save them, but the Court was getting in his way.

Ah, yes, the Court-packing incident.

Notice the timing? Right after FDR had been sworn in for his second term, which he'd won by a landslide. Nothing like a landslide to give a guy delusions of his own grandeur, eh? Remind anyone of Lyndon Johnson?

Talk about trying to use some of your political capital to buy yourself a big one!

[headsonpikes]

Well, it made 50.

We'd better learn to love Big Brother, I suppose. ;^)

[UCANSEE2]

How's that for ending it on a strong note ! ! ! !