The Brookings author probably thought she was being objective. But she was caught within her own echo chamber.
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Locke’s writings contained many specific observations realized in the Constitution
The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 16: John Locke and the Ninth Amendment Read More »
John Adams featured Harrington in the first volume of his encyclopedia of republican governments, which circulated at the Constitutional Convention.
The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 15: James Harrington & Algernon Sidney Read More »
The tax on sacks illustrates how power-freaks have highjacked Colorado.
The “Tax on Sacks:” More on Colorado’s stupid plastic bag law Read More »
Key framers explained why the Constitutional Convention had authority to propose a new form of government.
The Founders were far more interested in Machiavelli’s “Discourses on Livy” than in “The Prince.”
The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 14: Machiavelli Read More »
The most important lesson the Founders learned from Tacitus was that power corrupts.
The ideas that formed the Constitution, Part 13: Tacitus Read More »
Could a convention of states could change the “one state/one vote” rule to one based on population? The short answer
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The plastic bag law’s oddities comprise the first tip-off that HB 21-1162 is not really about the public good.
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About 40 percent of the title characters in Plutarch’s biographies ended up as pen names in the constitutional debates,
The ideas that formed the Constitution, part 12: Plutarch Read More »
A truly conservative-activist majority would strike down a range of state and federal economic regulations as violating due process. Gone would be minimum wage laws, maximum hour rules, price controls of any kind.
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