“Secession, State, and Economy.” Click here for Part 4, “Peaceful Disunion in Europe.” The moral grandeur of Lincoln is rooted in the myth that he made a war on by the vast majority of Americans, North and South, that America was a white European polity, and that the Indian and African populations were not—and were never exotic and alien population. What he could not tolerate was a dissolution of the Union, loss of revenue from the South, and a low-tariff zone on his southern border.
had sought to impose on their North American possessions had been going on in Europe for centuries and is still going on. Of the thousands of independent a few dozen remain, and there is an attempt to consolidate most of these into a EuropeanUnion. The ideologies that have sought to legitimate these consolidations have
Parliament. France has a history of grandiose government spending, even among European countries. Public spending accounts for 57 percent of national output, and for over 90 percent of GDP. While austerity has been the buzz word in the rest of Europe since 2009 resulting in a modest decline in government spending as a million euros). France has one of the highest corporate tax rates in the EuropeanUnion, exceeding even the famous high rates of Sweden. While the EuropeanUnion’s
Most European economies have been in recession, or close to it, since the beginning of of “austerity” measures. Various heads of government, finance ministers, and EuropeanUnion officials have declared that austerity has gone too far and is preventing a
The US government and the European Commission (EC) recently slammed Germany for running large current account our goods or services. Furthermore, Germany’s current account surplus with other Europeans or euro zone members has been cut in half between 2007 and 2012, and To criticize this trend is to criticize the stated reasons behind the EuropeanUnion’s creation in the first place. For reasons that are hard to understand, the
in 1825, retrospectively described the colonies as having seceded from the British Union. The word “secession,” for us, not only has exclusively political connotations, question the legitimacy of the modern state. At the time of William the Conqueror, Europe was composed of thousands of independent political units; today there are only Union that began the adventure of empire building in competition with the European empires. During this period of “manifest destiny,” “the big stick,” and
invasion of the South. Lincoln said he had taken an oath to preserve the Union, but he was mistaken. He had taken not an oath to preserve the Union, but government, or of Strasbourg and New York as the seats, respectively, of the EuropeanUnion, and the United Nations. Washington was the seat of a central
hegemónico a costa de los menos liberales. Esto explica, por ejemplo, por qué Europa Occidental llegó a dominar al resto del mundo en lugar de lo contrario. Más en a cabo la política exterior más agresiva, mientras que, por ejemplo, la antigua Unión Soviética, con sus políticas interiores completamente iliberales (represivas) juvenil. Esas cosas eran arcane regni , afectaban solo al soberano. [ War in European History , 73] Igualmente, Ludwig von Mises observaba sobre las guerras de
intervene to lower its currency’s value, other countries can do the same. So the European Central Bank wants to drive the euro’s value lower against the dollar, since the rise of fascism. As a sovereign country Germany has every right to leave the European Monetary Union and reinstate the Deutsche Mark. I would prefer that it go one step further and
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