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	<title>The Moral Liberal &#187; classics</title>
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		<title>Alexis de Tocqueville: The New Despotism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:32:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters Quote of the Day, Alexis de Tocqueville I see an innumerable multitude of men, alike and equal, constantly circling around in pursuit of the petty and banal pleasures with which they glut their souls. Each of them, withdrawn into himself, is almost unaware of the fate of the rest. Mankind, for him, consists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>William Shakespeare: Misfortune</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/12/08/william-shakespeare-misfortune/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Dabble in the Classics, William Shakespeare By misfortunes was my life prolong&#8217;d, To tell sad stories of my own mishaps. Source: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors I, I; Aegeon to Duke of Ephesus. Daily Dabble in the Classics is researched, compiled, and edited (with occasional commentary, and/or introductory and explanatory notes) by Steve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Which is the Most Warlike and Most Revolutionary Class in Democratic Armies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Democracy In America, Alexis de Tocqueville, 1831 Vol. 2, Sect. 3, Ch. 23 IT is of the essence of a democratic army to be very numerous in proportion to the people to which it belongs, as I shall hereafter show. On the other hand, men living in democratic times seldom choose a military life. Democratic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lower Class Citizenship?—Aristotle: Politics: Book 3, Prt 5</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/11/30/lower-class-citizenship%e2%80%94aristotle-politics-book-3-prt-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Aristotle: &#8220;Politics&#8221;, Book Three, Part 5, 350 B.C.E. There still remains one more question about the citizen: Is he only a true citizen who has a share of office, or is the mechanic to be included? If they who hold no office are to be deemed citizens, not every citizen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Adams: A Defense of the Constitutions of the United States, Letter 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, John Adams, 1786 Democratical Republics: UNDERWALD My dear Sir, THE canton of Underwald consists only of villages and boroughs, although it is twenty-five miles in length, and seventeen in breadth. These dimensions, it seems, were too extensive to be governed by a legislation so imperfectly combined, and nature has taught and compelled them [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Democratic Way of Life: Pericles</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/08/16/the-democratic-way-of-life-pericles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 13:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Dabble in the Classics, Pericles I will speak first of our ancestors, for it is right and becoming that now, when we are lamenting the dead, a tribute should be paid to their memory. There has never been a time when they did not inhabit this land, which by their valor they have handed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Milton&#8217;s Areopagitica: In Support of Freedom of Speech</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/02/03/miltons-areopagitica-in-support-of-freedom-of-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/02/03/miltons-areopagitica-in-support-of-freedom-of-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 05:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters,1644, John Milton A SPEECH FOR THE LIBERTY OF UNLICENSED PRINTING. TO THE PARLIAMENT OF ENGLAND. This is true Liberty, when freeborn men, Having to advise the public, may speak free; Which he who can, and will, deserves high praise: Who neither can, nor will, may hold his peace: What can be juster in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Wrong, The Greater the Zeal the Greater the Evil</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/01/31/if-wrong-the-greater-the-zeal-the-greater-the-evil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daily Dabble in the Classics, Plato Socrates to Crito: Dear Crito, your zeal is invaluable, if a right one; but if wrong, the greater the zeal the greater the evil. ____________________________ Source: Plato: Crito. (427?–347 B.C.)]]></description>
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		<title>True Friendship Only Exists Between Good Men</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/01/24/true-friendship-only-exists-between-good-men/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 03:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a true friend a man sees a second self. So...where his friend is he is; if his friend be rich he is not poor; though he be weak his friend’s strength is his]]></description>
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		<title>In Lazy Apathy Let Stoics Boast</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2011/01/17/in-lazy-apathy-let-stoics-boast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In lazy apathy let stoics boast their virtue fix’d: ’t is fix’d as in a frost ... Alexander Pope]]></description>
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		<title>Arnold Joseph Toynbee and the Man Who Saw Religion as a Prime Motivator</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/10/01/arnold-joseph-toynbee-and-the-man-who-saw-religion-as-a-prime-motivator/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 04:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what does the universe look like?..It looks as if everything were on the move either toward its Creator or away from Him.]]></description>
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		<title>H.G. Wells Reflects on U.S. Constitution and Love of God</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the National Space Club, March 29, 1985, President Reagan stated: "Personally, I like space. The higher you go, the smaller the Federal Government looks." ]]></description>
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		<title>The American Scholar: The Scholar &#8212; Democratic Thinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 03:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Waldo Emerson addresses the Phi Beta Kappa at Cambridge with an oration that would become known as The American Scholar. “I learned,” said the melancholy Pestalozzi, “that no man in God’s wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.” Help must come from the bosom alone. - Democratic Thinker]]></description>
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		<title>The American Scholar: The Duty &#8212; Democratic Thinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 03:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Waldo Emerson addresses the Phi Beta Kappa at Cambridge with an oration that would become known as The American Scholar. "He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble biographies, melodious verse, and the conclusions of history."]]></description>
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		<title>The American Scholar: The Education &#8212; Democratic Thinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 01:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Waldo Emerson addresses the Phi Beta Kappa at Cambridge with an oration that would become known as The American Scholar. "Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student’s behoof? And, finally, is not the true scholar the only true master? But, as the old oracle said, “All things have two handles. Beware of the wrong one.” - Today's Democratic Thinker]]></description>
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		<title>Fisher Ames: Equality Number 6 &#8212; Democratic Thinker</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/07/27/fisher-ames-equality-number-6-democratic-thinker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 03:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every thing in France has gone on directly contrary to all the silly expectations of the democrats, though most exactly in conformity with the laws of man’s nature, and the evidence of history. - Fisher Ames]]></description>
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		<title>Fisher Ames: Equality Number 5 &#8212; Democratic Thinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 03:30:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty is not to be enjoyed, indeed it cannot exist, without the habits of just subordination: it consists, not so much in removing all restraint from the orderly, as in imposing it on the violent. - Fisher Ames]]></description>
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		<title>Fisher Ames: Equality Number 3 &#8212; Democratic Thinker</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 06:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a series of papers published in 1801, Fisher Ames unleashes one of the Federalist’s most scathing attacks on the Anti-Federalist’s unbridled democratic principles. Ames does so by drawing their principles to their logical conclusions—illustrating his conclusions with the unprincipled actions of the European democrats and their American supporters and apologists. How is it, then, that the democrats find a right in the whole people so much more extensive, than what belongs to any one of their number?]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; July 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:36:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor's Summary: Agreeing to the whole report (thus far), while the equality of votes in the Senate issue heats up, large and small states asked to meet separately early the next morning to attempt to come up with possible solutions or compromises to end this impasse. - Steve Farrell]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; July 13</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debate renewed regarding the proposed equality of states within the Senate (the second branch). Discussion continued as to whether numbers or wealth are best for determining representation and taxation. - Constitutional Convention, 13 July 1787]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; July 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 03:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor's Summary: Gouvernuer Morris moved to add to the clause empowering the Legislature to vary the Representation according to the principles of wealth and number of inhabitants a "proviso that taxation shall be in proportion to Representation." General Pinckney agreed, Mason, Butler, Wilson agreed in principle but had reservations. General Pinckney and others amplified previous concerns about taxing a state according to its wealth (restating the difficulty of accurately and fairly defining that wealth) ... etc. ]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; July 11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor's Note: Discussion regards periodic census resumed, the purpose, said Randolph, "redressing inequality in the Representation. Sherman was against to numerous a House. It would "shackle the legislature. Better to elect a smaller group of "good and wise men, and then confide in them."  Mason thought a mandatory periodic census advisable to keep things fair or thus prevent those in power from doing what is natural to men, working to retain and enlarge their sphere of influence. Etc. -- Steve Farrell on Madison's Notes: June 11, 1787.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; July 10</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 05:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debate over how many members will be in the first House of Representatives. More discussion on apportionment, the need for an initial and periodic census.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; July 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patterson as to counting slaves in the rep. formula: What is the true principle of Representation? It is an expedient by which an assembly of certain individuals chosen by the people is substituted in place of the inconvenient meeting of the people themselves. If such a meeting of the people was actually to take place, would the slaves vote? They would not. Why then should they be represented? He was also against such an indirect encouragement of the slave trade. Madison said the Senate intended as "guardians of property."]]></description>
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		<title>Can Inward Slaves Make Outward Free? &#8212; John Milton</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 02:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What wise and valiant man would seek to free - These , thus degenerate, by themselves enslaved, or could of inward slaves make outward free? - John Milton, Paradise Regained]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; July 7</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA["Shall the clause allowing each State one vote in the 2d. branch, stand as part of the Report"? being taken up -- Constitutional Convention, 7 July 1787]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; July 6</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debated: in which branch ought money matters to originate. Mr. Wilson gave this interesting answer via a question: "His question was how is the power of the 1st. branch increased or that of the 2d. diminished by giving the proposed privilege to the former? Where is the difference, in which branch it begins if both must concur, in the end?" Mind you, this is under a proposed Senate that would be elected by the State Legislatures.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; July 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, 5 July 1787, James Madison Mr. GERRY delivered in from the Committee appointed on Monday last the following Report. &#8220;The Committee to whom was referred the 8th. Resol. of the Report from the Committee of the whole House, and so much of the 7th. as has not been decided on, submit the following [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; July 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 04:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What qualities are necessary to constitute a check in this case? Abilities and virtue, are equally necessary in both branches. Something more then is now wanted. 1. the checking branch must have a personal interest in checking the other branch, one interest must be opposed to another interest. Vices as they exist, must be turned against each other -- G. Morris, Constitutional Convention]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 30</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 01:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debate continues on equal vs. proportional representation in the second branch (the U.S. Senate). ]]></description>
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		<title>Peace, Easy Taxes, Justice &#8212; Adam Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 17:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of affluence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. - Adam Smith]]></description>
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		<title>No Other Patron Necessary &#8212; Algernon Sidney</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/05/07/no-other-patron-necessary-than-god-algernon-sidney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 19:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This appears so plainly in Scripture, that the assertors of liberty want no other patron than God himself; and his word so fully justifies what we contend for ...  -- Algernon Sidney]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 29</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/04/27/madisons-notes-the-federal-convention-of-1787-june-29/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hamilton warned, as to "the consequences of a dissolution of the Union, and the establishment of partial confederacies. Alliances will immediately be formed with different rival and hostile nations of Europe, who will foment disturbances among ourselves," etc.  He thought seeking only "domestic tranquility and happiness" a chimerical idea. "No Government could give us tranquility and happiness at home, which did not possess sufficient stability and strength to make us respectable abroad."]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 25</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/04/10/madisons-notes-federal-convention-of-1787-june-25/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 07:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pinkney explores the system, history, and roots of the British Constitution, dubbing it the best in existence (to date), but wrong for the U.S. State and county rights debated by Pinkney &#038; others.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 23</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/04/06/madisons-notes-the-federal-convention-of-1787-june-23/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Madison renewed his motion made and waved to render the members of the 1st. branch "ineligible during their term of service, and for one year after — to such offices only as should be established, or the emoluments thereof, augmented by the Legislature of the United States during the time of their being members." He supposed the unnecessary creation of offices, and increase of salaries, were the evils most experienced, and that if the door was shut against them it might properly be left open for the appointment of members to other offices as an encouragement to the Legislative service. This was debated.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 22</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:58:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, 22 June 1787, James Madison FRIDAY JUNE 22. IN CONVENTION The clause in Resol. 3. 1 &#8220;to receive fixed stipends to be paid out of the Nationl. Treasury&#8221; 2 considered. Mr. ELSEWORTH, moved to substitute payment by the States out of their own Treasurys: observing that the manners of different States were very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 20</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/03/17/madisons-notes-the-federal-convention-of-1787-june-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:33:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Col. Mason noted that in certain crisis ordinary cautions yield to public necessity - however, he asked: "Is it to be thought that the people of America, so watchful over their interests; so jealous of their liberties, will give up their all, will surrender both the sword and the purse, to the same body, and that too not chosen immediately by themselves? They never will. They never ought." ]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 19</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. WILSON, could not admit the doctrine that when the Colonies became independent of G. Britain, they became independent also of each other. He read the declaration of Independence, observing thereon that the United Colonies were declared to be free &#038; independent States; and inferring that they were independent, not individually but Unitedly and that they were confederated as they were independent, States. Col. HAMILTON, assented to the doctrine of Mr. Wilson. He denied the doctrine that the States were thrown into a State of Nature He was not yet prepared to admit the doctrine that the Confederacy, could be dissolved by partial infractions of it.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alexander Hamilton makes the case for republican gov't modeled after the Brit. Const., it being the only in the world uniting public strength with individual security. He praises its mixed representation, checks and balances, and the greater stability and permanency that occurs with an elected executive and Senate that serve for life (on good behavior). -- Steve Farrell]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 16</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virginia v. New Jersey plan debated. John Lansing Jr. of New York opposes anything but amending the Articles of Confederation and a general govt. negative on state laws. William Patterson argues for equal sovereignty between the states with representatives appointed by the states not the people, the latter point being vital to upholding state sovereignty. Other speakers: Wilson, Pinckney, Elseworth, Randolph. ]]></description>
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		<title>Did Locke Really Justify Limited Government? &#8212; Joseph R. Stromberg</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/03/08/did-locke-really-justify-limited-government-joseph-r-stromberg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is the contrast with Thomas Hobbes that makes Locke seem a great liberal. True, he does give us some “outs” (very narrow ones), which Hobbes denies us. But with the Whig Oligarchs’ triumph in 1688, Locke’s ideas gave valuable rhetorical cover for newly entrenched interests. Soon enough they shifted over to simple Hobbesian practices buttressed with feudal-statist legalisms. (Enter Blackstone.)]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 14-15</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/03/06/madisons-notes-the-federal-convention-of-1787-june-14-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New Jersey Plan for a new federal government proposed by William Paterson. Created in response to the Virginia Plan's call for two houses of Congress, both elected with proportional representation according to population or direct taxes paid. The less populous states were adamantly opposed to giving most of the control of the national government to the larger states, and so proposed this nine resolution alternative.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention &#8212; June 13</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. GERRY. moved to restrain the Senatorial branch from originating money bills. The other branch was more immediately the representatives of the people, and it was a maxim that the people ought to hold the purse-strings. Madison, Pinkney, Sherman disagreed. The Senate would be just as competent to the stated purpose. Numerous resolutions summarizing the debates thus far proposed.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention &#8212; June 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the Senate's purpose: "The democratic licentiousness of the State Legislatures proved the necessity of a firm Senate. ... If it be not a firm body, the other branch being more numerous, and coming immediately from the people, will overwhelm it...A firmness &#038; independence may be the more necessary also in this branch, as it ought to guard the Constitution agst. encroachments of the Executive who will be apt to form combinations with the demagogues of the popular branch." -- Gerry.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#8217;s Notes &#8212; The Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 11</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/03/02/madisons-notes-the-federal-convention-of-1787-june-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Misters Rutlidge, Dickenson, Sharman, King, Wilson, Franklin debate proportion v. mixed. v. equal representative in Congress. Speech by Benjamin Franklin included in full regarding the example of Scotland, Ireland, and the American Colonies.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#039;s Notes, The Federal Convention, June 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Founders continue debate as to mode of election for Executive, proportional v. equal representation for states, and federal v. national government, with emphasis on state rights discussion.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#039;s Notes &#8212; Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 8</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/02/26/madisons-notes-federal-convention-of-1787-june-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 06:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Founders debate the extensiveness of the National Power. Should the national government possess an absolute veto over alll state laws or only in a few well defined areas of law? Should the nature of the general government, therefore, be national or federal?]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#039;s Notes &#8212; Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 6, 1787</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/02/18/madisons-notes-federal-convention-of-1787-june-6-1787/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:21:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Founders debate over the election of the Senate. The majority view is that electing Senators by way of the state legislatures is a vital check in favor of state rights, property rights, and the tyranny of the majority. Also debated: a continuation of the discussion of whether or not the judiciary should possess a negative on the laws.]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#039;s Notes &#8212; Federal Convention of 1787 &#8212; June 5, 1787</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As to the appointment of Judges in the Constitutional Convention, of Benjamin Franklin's comments on the subject, as recorded by Madison: "He ... in a brief and entertaining manner related a Scotch mode, in which the nomination proceeded from the Lawyers, who always selected the ablest of the profession in order to get rid of him, and share his practice among themselves."]]></description>
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		<title>Madison&#039;s Notes, Federal Convention of 1787, June 4, 1787</title>
		<link>http://www.themoralliberal.com/2010/02/15/madisons-notes-federal-convention-of-1787-june-4-1787/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 11:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Farrell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberty Letters, June 4, 1787, James Madison MONDAY JUNE 4th 1 IN COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE The Question was resumed on motion of Mr. PINKNEY 2ded. by 2 WILSON, &#8220;shall the blank for the number of the Executive be filled with a single person?&#8221; Mr. WILSON was in favor of the motion. It had been [...]]]></description>
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