Where is it written, where even intimated by these free-thinkers of the 18th century, the Framers of our Constitution, that the Public Good is advanced by banning books, by censoring content, by denying education? Where, except in the practices and remarks of the owners of human beings who wanted their property to remain in theContinue reading “Originalism”
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The Long Clasp (Post 10)
Part IIThe Threat **THE PEOPLE §§§ Race and The People The principles invoked by Jefferson are moral principles: All men are created equal, endowed with. . .; Do unto others as. . .; Love your neighbor as. . .. “We the People of the United States of America” is a political construct. The phrase disincludesContinue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 10)”
The Long Clasp (Post 9)
Part IIThe Threat **THE PEOPLE §§ Slavery and The People Madison was a slave-holder. So was Washington. So was Jefferson. Madison is credited as the chief author of the Constitution. That document does not contain the words slave or slavery anywhere, until the 13th Amendment abolished it after the Civil War. That the author ofContinue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 9)”
The Long Clasp (Post 8)
Part IIThe Threat **THE PEOPLE The arrangement addressed by the proposed Constitution and dissected by Hamilton amounted to a government of the States, by the States, and for the States. Thirteen sovereign States established it by agreement amongst themselves. Their legislatures appointed the delegates to the Congress. The business of the government included little elseContinue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 8)”
The Long Clasp (Post 2)
*The Idea Ask a thousand US citizens, or a thousand thousand, to catalogue some of those ideas, and sure to be included on every list will be Freedom and Liberty; on nearly every list in one form or another, the Right to be left alone to do as you please, to worship as you please,Continue reading “The Long Clasp (Post 2)”
The Long Clasp 