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- Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
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Presented at the Mises Circle in Manhattan: The Fed and War Finance (16 September 2006, University Club, New York, NY).
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Fischer’s book Albion’s Seed described four British folkways into the colonies. The four were Puritans to New England, aristocrats to Virginia, Quakers to Pennsylvania, and borderland immigrants to Appalachian backcountry. There was no common union in the thirteen colonies. Each colony selected its own religion. Yes, Anne Hutchinson was driven
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Some American History is not covered at all in history books. Four of these ignored stories are: 1) in 1798 a law passed making it a crime to say unkind words about anyone in the US government, other than the vice president, who at the time was Jefferson. Jefferson and James Madison proposed that each state had the power to void a bad law
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As of 1790, all original thirteen colonies had ratified the Constitution. Four clauses have caused great trouble ever since. The War Powers Clause: Article II, Section 2, makes the President Commander-in-chief to direct a war once it has been declared by Congress. He can make war against a sudden attack on US territory, but he cannot declare war.
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1798 was an important year. The Principles of ’98 influenced all of American history. The Alien and Sedition Acts and the Kentucky Resolutions revealed these principles. There existed hostility between the US and France. The Alien Act involved immigrants, but the Sedition Act made clear that it was a crime for anyone to criticize the US
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Lysander Spooner in the antebellum period has been overlooked. He was a radical abolitionist lawyer. He wrote The Unconstitutionality of Slavery . William Lloyd Garrison felt the Constitution was a bloody pro-slavery compact. Spooner felt that since there was no universal consent to the Constitution, then no authority existed, not even implied.
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States had the right to secede. The War Between the States was not launched to free slaves. Lincoln believed that whites were superior and favored the deportation of freed slaves. The South was for free trade; the North wanted protectionism. The compact theory states that separate sovereign states compact together without losing any of their
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Secession is a progressive, not a reactionary force. It is civilized. Jefferson Davis argued that because secession is not mentioned in the Constitution it is retained by the states under the Tenth Amendment. Thomas Jefferson said that the time for separation had not yet come. Garrison had long called for the secession of the Northern states in
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From the 2006 Supporters Summit: Imperialism: Enemy of Freedom, 27-28 October 2006, Auburn, Alabama.