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		<title>The future</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 04:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With perpetual stalling by our &#8220;representatives&#8221; in Congress to enact any meaningful reforms that might help save the America from imminent economic and political collapse, it has become clear to me and many others that a new system must be developed to replace the debris left behind from the overwrought American empire. Empire. I hate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freealgernon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8042439&amp;post=708&amp;subd=freealgernon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Unconstitutional Nature of Federal Welfare: Franklin Pierce&#8217;s Finest Hour</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who was Franklin Pierce? If you know anything about  the fourteenth president you have probably been told or read that he was a failure. He frequently shows up in the bottom three of worst presidents in American history, right down there with Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan. And while Pierce is by no means a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freealgernon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8042439&amp;post=688&amp;subd=freealgernon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interposition</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:08:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thus far Idaho stands alone in its legislative opposition to the federal health care overhaul. With little fanfare and no mainstream celebrations, in fact most &#8220;respectable&#8221; circles remain silent, last night the Idaho State Senate voted to pass a bill that would forbid the state from accepting any federal funds to enact the health care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freealgernon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8042439&amp;post=653&amp;subd=freealgernon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Idaho nullification dead? Thank the GOP</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 05:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to a couple of blog posts dealing with the Idaho Senate&#8217;s tabling of the healthcare nullification bill found at the Spokesman Review, I wrote the following responses: &#8220;How utterly incomprehensible is Bart Davis: &#8216;I agree that we should do all we can to push the federal government to return to its enumerated powers,” he [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freealgernon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8042439&amp;post=646&amp;subd=freealgernon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federalist No. 25</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hamilton&#8217;s cynicism is our reality. We have fallen victim to a collusion, not one of direct complicity between the legislature and the executive but one of acquiescence. From Korea to Iraq, the national legislature, with the brief exception of the immediate aftermath of Vietnam, has given the president everything he wanted from tacit permission in launching wars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freealgernon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8042439&amp;post=547&amp;subd=freealgernon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federalist No. 24</title>
		<link>http://freealgernon.wordpress.com/2010/07/11/federalist-no-24/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;And the arguments of those who, like the antifederalists, caution against an ever-expanding military with all of its accompanying externalities are quickly dismissed as the unpatriotic clamors of a &#8220;sinister and unprincipled opposition.&#8221; Alexander Hamilton in Federalist 24 airs his frustration at the fear the opponents of the Constitution have concerning the new military power [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freealgernon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8042439&amp;post=520&amp;subd=freealgernon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federalist No. 23</title>
		<link>http://freealgernon.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/federalist-no-23/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 05:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This philosophy of unlimited and undefined power, whether in military or civic affairs,  is arguably the most dangerous doctrine set forth by Hamilton in the Federalist Papers, and from the New Deal to the new healthcare law its logic is ruthlessly driven home by the national government on a routine basis.&#8221; Federalist 23 signals a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freealgernon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8042439&amp;post=480&amp;subd=freealgernon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federalist No. 22</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 21:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hamilton would hate the recent Arizona immigration law because it is not uniformly enforced throughout all 50 states. The antifederalists would be fine with it precisely for that reason: the people through their legislature have spoken&#8230;&#8221; The list of defects of the system of American government that Hamilton continues attacking in Federalist 22 is so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freealgernon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8042439&amp;post=470&amp;subd=freealgernon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federalist No. 21</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 04:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;For all of Hamilton&#8217;s faults both politically and philosophically, he had it right when he stated that indirect taxes &#8216;must for a long time constitute the chief part of the revenue raised in this country.&#8217; This would ensure that the government was truly small and limited. In Federalist 21 Alexander Hamilton relates the peculiar limits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freealgernon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8042439&amp;post=411&amp;subd=freealgernon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Federalist No. 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;True federalism is not a “government over governments” but a sharing or more properly stated, a division of important powers.&#8220; Federalist No. 20 is the last in a series of articles on the light the history of republics shine on the defects of the Articles of Confederation. Hamilton and Madison again team up to demonstrate, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=freealgernon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8042439&amp;post=389&amp;subd=freealgernon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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