Albion’s Seed is a great book about the four migration folkways into the colonies from Great Britain during 1629 through 1775. The groups had many characteristics in common which may be what made future union possible, but the groups were also different. Puritans hated Quakers. Everybody hated Catholics. The competing regional cultures created quite a laissez-faire outcome between the community-based groups and more individualistic groups.
This is a federal constitution. Federalism is the most important idea for liberty. You must maximize your choices and you need meaningful choices, made against a cultural background. Federalism requires such moral correctness that it makes it the most difficult system to maintain. Federalism always fights consolidation.
Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (31:59)
Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
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Recorded at the 2003 Supporters Summit: Prosperty, War, and Depression.
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Recorded at the Reassessing the Presidency seminar; March 2004. (47:26)
