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On several occasions ( the most recent ) I have discussed the abandonment of our Constitution and its principles as leading to the inevitable economic mess we now confront. As an example of how the Constitution no longer matters, at least in the eyes of the ruling class, the following article from the...
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One of the things which has gotten less attention than it needs in all the noise that has been generated by the debate over health care reform is one that is fundamental to not only health care, but the very manner in which our country is governed. Simply stated it is this: can the Congress legally mandate...
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The Federal government has now grown so powerful that some in this nation are taking its slightest wish to be a command. The announcement on Monday by a group of major American corporation, including Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Tyco and others, that they will be adopting new executive compensation guidelines...
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The President of the United States fired the President of General Motors Corporation over the weekend. This would have been unthinkable even a decade ago. But, things have changed and, apparently, this doesn't bother most of the American people or the great majority of the mass media's talking...
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The American individualist anarchist Lysander Spooner was one of the last natural law philosophers of the 19th century, and his crowning achievement is arguably the total demolition of the myth of the social contract. Spooner applied a libertarian theory of natural law to the United States Constitution...
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Filed under: Anarchism, Constitution, Thomas Jefferson, Social Contract, Natural Rights, Libertarianism, Philosophy, History, Murray Rothbard, Egoism, Max Stirner, Benjamin Tucker, Natural Law, Lysander Spooner
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I am a libertarian free market amateur economist, which will become clear either now, or within future blogs. I call myself an amateur in the sense that I have not yet attained a Bachelors, Masters or PhD in economics, although I am in pursuit of all three. One thing that bothers me about politics in...
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The theory of a republic is essentially that, in contrast to democracy in which there is tyranny of the majority and in contrast to monarchy in which there is the rule of a single man or oligarchy, the law itself is what rules rather than men. In essence, a republic is supposed to be a model for government...
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So I put together some relatively witty definitions of my terms. If you're not offended by at least one of these, then you are awesome! Constitutionalism - The belief that a piece of paper drafted and signed by a tiny aristocracy of men is a legitimate perpetual contract that makes the government...
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Filed under: Anarchism, Objectivism, Minarchism, Non-Aggression Axoim, Racism, Collectivism, Democracy, Altruism, War, Constitution, Social Contract, Religion, Libertarianism, Economics, Philosophy, Thomas Hobbes, conservatism, Environmentalism
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There has been a lot of hooting and hollering lately in libertarian circles, particularly as it relates to the Ron Paul campaign. This seems to be representative of a broader conflict between "culturally left" and "culturally conservative" libertarians. It is becoming commonplace...
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Filed under: Anarchism, Decentralization, Centralization, Racism, Collectivism, Separatism, Constitution, Religion, Libertarianism, conservatism, isolationism
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One of the most erroneous political ideas is the notion of the social contract. The idea is that the legitimacy of a government is based on a social contract between the people and the government. In America, the constitution is supposed to be our social contract. But since no such "social contract"...
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[This is a re-post, as the first was difficult to read due to formatting problems.] American Freedom Agenda Act of 2007 (Introduced in House), http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.3835 : 110th CONGRESS, 1st Session H. R. 3835 To restore the Constitution's checks and balances and protections...