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I make e-learning.
Are you the video professor? if so, DIE SLOWLY!
Comment Re:sorry, formatted properly now (Score 1) 580
No.
The states are and were FULLY autonomous states under both the articles and the constitution. They voluntarily agreed to first a weak, and then a stronger compact that provides for their common defense and a super-free-trade zone.
The CSA was completely in the right in their leaving the USA and forming a new government, from a constitutional law standpoint.
However, once it became a new nation, the States of the USA were completely justified in declaring war on the CSA states from a Natural Law perspective. Anyone has the Natural Right to stop murder, rape or physical enslavement. John Brown is one of my personal heros. He didn't wait for government authority to try to end slavery. He just gathered men and seized a government armory.
People can act against governments that allow murder, rape or physical enslavement and so can States, as States are merely confederations of sovereign individuals.
The reason why the articles failed was because the states did not agree to give the national government the power to collect taxes from the states and disallow barriers to inter-state trade. Without power to tax there was no way to pay back war debts.
I really don't see why you would think I favor the Articles of Confederation over the Constitution when I was advocating the super-free-trade scenario that only came when the Constitution was created. Before the Constitution, States had their own currencies and set up inter-state tarrifs. Under the Articles of Confederation, States set up harmfull protectionist policies. This was why it was doomed to failure. Under the Constitution, they agreed not to set up such barriers. American industry, commerce and economic expansion rocked.
I am an original textualist. I do not believe that the Constitution is an "evolving tapestry" or any such nonsene. The constitution is written in plain english and means what it says. If there is any doubt, the authors explained it fully in the Federalist Papers and personal letters.
The states are and were FULLY autonomous states under both the articles and the constitution. They voluntarily agreed to first a weak, and then a stronger compact that provides for their common defense and a super-free-trade zone.
The CSA was completely in the right in their leaving the USA and forming a new government, from a constitutional law standpoint.
However, once it became a new nation, the States of the USA were completely justified in declaring war on the CSA states from a Natural Law perspective. Anyone has the Natural Right to stop murder, rape or physical enslavement. John Brown is one of my personal heros. He didn't wait for government authority to try to end slavery. He just gathered men and seized a government armory.
People can act against governments that allow murder, rape or physical enslavement and so can States, as States are merely confederations of sovereign individuals.
The reason why the articles failed was because the states did not agree to give the national government the power to collect taxes from the states and disallow barriers to inter-state trade. Without power to tax there was no way to pay back war debts.
I really don't see why you would think I favor the Articles of Confederation over the Constitution when I was advocating the super-free-trade scenario that only came when the Constitution was created. Before the Constitution, States had their own currencies and set up inter-state tarrifs. Under the Articles of Confederation, States set up harmfull protectionist policies. This was why it was doomed to failure. Under the Constitution, they agreed not to set up such barriers. American industry, commerce and economic expansion rocked.
I am an original textualist. I do not believe that the Constitution is an "evolving tapestry" or any such nonsene. The constitution is written in plain english and means what it says. If there is any doubt, the authors explained it fully in the Federalist Papers and personal letters.
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I hate the journal.
Journal Journal: Snow
There is snow on the ground here in Nebraska, and I wanted to write this, because I have not written anything in a long time. That's it.
Journal Journal: God and Science 1
I think that the odds are in the favor of there being other intelligent folks out there, and I do not believe that this flies in the face of religion at all.
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He keeps differentiating, flying off on a tangent.
