tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897392523653806017.post1773860346851484941..comments2023-11-03T08:29:45.417-04:00Comments on Law and Order Teacher: JAMES MADISON, 1751-1836Law and Order Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11069306257334186404noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897392523653806017.post-83291307476965406492010-09-18T09:13:20.747-04:002010-09-18T09:13:20.747-04:00"Do not separate text from historical backgro..."Do not separate text from historical background..."<br /><br />Can you provide the context for this quote? I see it in many places, and while I agree with the principle, it troubles me that I find NO ONE who lists the original context of the quote itself!Bruce Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18439971692893378961noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897392523653806017.post-25243073309687033442010-03-05T21:58:53.650-05:002010-03-05T21:58:53.650-05:00L&O Teach, Outstanding Post...Ducky was half ...L&O Teach, Outstanding Post...Ducky was half way civil in his remarks which was more easy to comprehend,,,but Sometimes????I have seen the disassembly of our freedoms,Individual ... Freedoms that our forefathers established through the Declaration, and Bill of Rights... These are being taken a little at a time,,,,chipping away,,,,Anyway,,,great read.....stay well....Taplinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00161842191574184492noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897392523653806017.post-68302484545105745662010-03-04T18:06:07.118-05:002010-03-04T18:06:07.118-05:00Sounds Like the Taxyertwoshits Troll, Ducky has a ...Sounds Like the Taxyertwoshits Troll, Ducky has a sever case of penis envy against men of power...they have had it, he would like it, but because he doesn't, he's a bitter angry Obamaite.PRHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05429172501061105316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897392523653806017.post-84313844248548870382010-03-04T09:41:06.815-05:002010-03-04T09:41:06.815-05:00I hear that response quite a bit L&A. It is a ...I hear that response quite a bit L&A. It is a standard problem with Libertarians. When things go south it's because we didn't have enough Libertarianism. It gets you out of the bind of having to accept the defects of your system.<br /><br /> Over the last 30 years we have constantly loosened regulation and we have been in a period of giving plenty of free chips to the flambeurs on Wall Street. It failed and we need to compromise in order to prevent further bubbles.<br /><br /> Markets fail and they can fail badly, just like governments. I certainly don't advocate completely abandoning the market economy but I want it on a leash.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897392523653806017.post-79233566600232045992010-03-03T21:19:01.541-05:002010-03-03T21:19:01.541-05:00Oso,
It wasn't so much tariffs as it was dutie...Oso,<br />It wasn't so much tariffs as it was duties and trade restrictions laid out by both the French and England against each other and those who traded with the enemy. It was tangled mess and Jefferson and congress stepped in it with the Embargo Act of 1807. Thanks for the visit.Law and Order Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11069306257334186404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897392523653806017.post-89004001234343293742010-03-03T20:49:22.505-05:002010-03-03T20:49:22.505-05:00Law&Order,
of particular interest was the role...Law&Order,<br />of particular interest was the role lifting of tariffs played in bringing about the War of 1812.I wasn't aware of that.<br />Thank you.Osohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09513535195785731541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897392523653806017.post-31448082744401382962010-03-03T19:08:40.801-05:002010-03-03T19:08:40.801-05:00Ducky,
My best reply is that we don't have a f...Ducky,<br />My best reply is that we don't have a free market government. We have a regulated capitalistic system that is not free in any sense. The agencies instituted by the government have made a shambles of the economy. <br /><br />I don't doubt that there needs to be some system of a watchdog variety, but regulating a capitalist system something akin to shoveling the ocean with a pitchfork. FDR-style, heavy regulation instituted for the sake of doing "something" did nothing but prolong the depression. Temporary make-work jobs do nothing to mend the economy. <br /><br />When it comes to straightening out the economy I believe the profit motive is powerful and will lead most businesses to take the right approach. Rogue businesses are news because they are few. Watchdogs could curb most white collar crime.Law and Order Teacherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11069306257334186404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897392523653806017.post-11120686029546680092010-03-03T14:02:06.585-05:002010-03-03T14:02:06.585-05:00... in fact that is probably the largest point of...... in fact that is probably the largest point of contention between right and left.<br /><br /> Now I make no qualms and I do not apologize. I am hard left. Now as is true of many of us we realize that the problem of governance vs. rule is extremely real and one that the left hasn't solved.<br /><br /> Then what happens is that the right goes on about the left having failed in all things and let's go back to the one system that works. Well, you have to hold up there a bit.<br /><br /> We are all in agreement with the founders that this problem of governance vs. rule is critical. But the right feels they have it resolved through the agency of the free market. Bit of a cop out defining the decisions of the so called free market as necessarily optimal as we have seen and it puts the right in a tough position of having to go through all kinds of distortions to explain the failures.<br /><br /> In fact, what the right has done is merely kick the can down the street and we still need to find a way to get together and listen to each other. Neither side has a complete solution and it would truly benefit us to pick the best ideas from each side if we are to achieve the founders goal of good governance.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8897392523653806017.post-45170662396901507862010-03-03T10:40:06.969-05:002010-03-03T10:40:06.969-05:00All men having power ought to be mistrusted.
----...All men having power ought to be mistrusted.<br /><br />----------------------<br /><br /> Especially if they have economic power. As we have seen over the last half of the century especially.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.com