Exceptional piece of writing and deductive reasoning.
I have to admit “his sermon on the think-tank” gave me a chuckle.
But it’s your ending conclusion that’s chilling, for I had little idea (nor did I know someone inside Independence Hall was taking good hour-by-hour notes) that among Franklin’s many talents that he also a seer.
“we must enter the hall itself that day September 17, 1787 and hear from Franklin himself;”
“In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government.”
This whole line of “ordered liberty” thinking really has been bothered. On one hand the conservative constructionists on the federal bench want to strike anything down that isn’t explicitly written into the Constitution (usually the original document plus stopping after Amendment Two), but then on the other hand want to cherry pick their perceived intent of The Founders on the prioritized freedoms of their choosing. (We don’t need those pesky freedoms after the 2nd, especially that evil 14th.) Maybe a better term is ordered hypocrisy.
I’m thinking the genesis of bringing the Great Reset or Great Awakening to life is rooted on the Fair Trade Act of 1974, et sec. It was an egregious act of of a taking by Corporate America to offshore jobs and entire companies with the direct approval and support of the whole of Congress, but without just compensation to the people and entities that were, and are, displaced, American workers and cities. Jobs were lost and entire communities were effectively foreclosed out by the Act. It’s past time for a reckoning.
To Quote Dickens
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Exceptional piece of writing and deductive reasoning.
I have to admit “his sermon on the think-tank” gave me a chuckle.
But it’s your ending conclusion that’s chilling, for I had little idea (nor did I know someone inside Independence Hall was taking good hour-by-hour notes) that among Franklin’s many talents that he also a seer.
“we must enter the hall itself that day September 17, 1787 and hear from Franklin himself;”
“In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government.”
This whole line of “ordered liberty” thinking really has been bothered. On one hand the conservative constructionists on the federal bench want to strike anything down that isn’t explicitly written into the Constitution (usually the original document plus stopping after Amendment Two), but then on the other hand want to cherry pick their perceived intent of The Founders on the prioritized freedoms of their choosing. (We don’t need those pesky freedoms after the 2nd, especially that evil 14th.) Maybe a better term is ordered hypocrisy.
I’m thinking the genesis of bringing the Great Reset or Great Awakening to life is rooted on the Fair Trade Act of 1974, et sec. It was an egregious act of of a taking by Corporate America to offshore jobs and entire companies with the direct approval and support of the whole of Congress, but without just compensation to the people and entities that were, and are, displaced, American workers and cities. Jobs were lost and entire communities were effectively foreclosed out by the Act. It’s past time for a reckoning.