Showing posts with label James Madison. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Madison. Show all posts
Friday, August 26, 2022

TGIF: Jefferson on Not Trusting the State

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Regardless of written constitutions and the laws on the books, individual liberty is always at risk. And as liberty goes, so goes our capaci...
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Friday, April 29, 2022

TGIF: What Really Protects Liberty?

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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, as if we needed another demonstration, that little stands between the government and our liberty. Ch...
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Friday, April 22, 2016

The Framers' Error

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James Madison and the other framers thought cooperation could not be achieved without the state. They also thought that under their Constitu...
Friday, February 26, 2016

TGIF: The Constitution and the Standing Army

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The U.S. Constitution can reasonably be seen as a massive tax and mercantilist trade-promotion program. However, there's a third leg to...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Madison on Government and Force

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While we have no evidence that George Washington said, "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence — it is force. Like fire it is a...
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Thursday, January 28, 2016

TGIF: The Bill of Rights Revisited

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Drawing on work by historian Gordon S. Wood, I recently suggested that we see the U.S. Constitution not as a landmark in the struggle for l...
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Friday, January 22, 2016

TGIF: The Constitution Revisited

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I am mystified that so many libertarians still see the U.S. Constitution as a landmark achievement in the struggle for liberty. On principle...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

TGIF: The War of 1812 Was the Health of the State

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 Even a war that appears justifiable — Britain conscripted Americans into its navy and interfered with commerce — had enduring illiberal ...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

TGIF: James Madison: Father of the Implied-Powers Doctrine

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Don't be fooled by Madison's promise that the Constitution would create a government of "few and defined" powers. Read abo...