‘The Moral Liberal’ Archives
The Federalist No. 39
by James Madison Conformity of the Plan to Republican Principles To the People of the State of New York: THE last paper having concluded the observations which were meant to introduce a candid survey of the plan of government reported by the convention, we now proceed to the execution of that part of our undertaking. The first question that [...]
The Federalist No. 38
by James Madison The Same Subject Continued, and the Incoherence of the Objections to the New Plan Exposed To the People of the State of New York: IT IS not a little remarkable that in every case reported by ancient history, in which government has been established with deliberation and consent, the task of framing it has not been committed to [...]
Schlafly: Preschool Promises Don’t Add UP
by Phyllis Schlafly The political momentum behind establishing preschool programs is tremendous, but existing programs and proposals are both ineffective and very expensive. Preschool can provide small short-term gains for low-income children who don't have two parents in the home, but these gains fade very quickly and become insignificant even [...]
The Federalist No. 37
by James Madison Concerning the Difficulties of the Convention in Devising a Proper Form of Government To the People of the State of New York: IN REVIEWING the defects of the existing Confederation, and showing that they cannot be supplied by a government of less energy than that before the public, several of the most important principles of [...]
The Federalist No. 36
by Alexander Hamilton Concerning the General Power of Taxation (continued) To the People of the State of New York: WE HAVE seen that the result of the observations, to which the foregoing number has been principally devoted, is, that from the natural operation of the different interests and views of the various classes of the community, whether [...]
Left’s Backroom Litigation Bomb Targets State Rights, Insurance Companies, and Free Medicine
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell From the pen of Hugh Hewitt: Yesterday, Nancy Pelosi dropped a new 1,990 page version of Obamacare on the House, and Democrats are demanding a vote next week. Not only is the bill a giant disaster for the economy and for American medicine, it is outrageous to demand it be moved along as though it was a [...]
The Federalist No. 35
by Alexander Hamilton Concerning the General Power of Taxation (continued) To the People of the State of New York: BEFORE we proceed to examine any other objections to an indefinite power of taxation in the Union, I shall make one general remark; which is, that if the jurisdiction of the national government, in the article of revenue, should be [...]
Violation of a Sacred Trust
The Moral Liberal with Steve Farrell Sheldon Richman at The Freeman weighs in on the health care bill before the U.S. House of Representatives: A final word about the nearly 2,000-page bill. Others have said it, but it needs to be repeated. No one will be able to understand all the implications and consequences of a government attempt to design [...]
Farrell: Telltale Account of Today’s Bad News
by Steve Farrell The Moral Liberal Making his case against government-guaranteed loans and mortgages a famous economist writes: Government-guaranteed home mortgages, especially when a negligible down payment or no down payment whatever is required, inevitably mean more bad loans than otherwise. They force the general taxpayer to subsidize the [...]
The Federalist No. 34
by Alexander Hamilton Concerning the General Power of Taxation (continued) To the People of the State of New York: I FLATTER myself it has been clearly shown in my last number that the particular States, under the proposed Constitution, would have COEQUAL authority with the Union in the article of revenue, except as to duties on imports. As [...]
Battle for America’s Soul: Shots Fired at Lou Dobbs
by Steve Farrell The Moral Liberal WND.com reports: "CNN and talk radio host Lou Dobbs, a strong proponent of U.S. border enforcement, told his radio audience a gunshot was fired into his home after a series of threatening phone calls. "'Three weeks ago this morning a shot was fired into my house, my wife was standing there," he said on his [...]
Gay Marriage Vote Looms in Maine; Polls Show It’s Close
The Moral Liberal Blog, NewsMax, David A. Patten The crusade for gay marriage in America could suffer a stinging rebuke or score a historic victory, depending on how Maine voters cast their ballots in a deadlocked showdown that the polls show could go either way. Traditional marriage proponents admit they're seriously outgunned. They say they [...]
The Federalist No. 33
by Alexander Hamilton Concerning the General Power of Taxation (continued) To the People of the State of New York: THE residue of the argument against the provisions of the Constitution in respect to taxation is ingrafted upon the following clause. The last clause of the eighth section of the first article of the plan under consideration [...]
UNESCO Promotes Explicit Sex Ed Curriculum Worldwide
Eye of the Apple, Eagle Forum's Education Reporter At the beginning of September in Birmingham, U.K., the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) presented a draft of its official recommendations for sex education worldwide. A few weeks before the conference, some conservative critics called national attention to [...]
The Federalist No. 32
by Alexander Hamilton Concerning the General Power of Taxation (continued) To the People of the State of New York: ALTHOUGH I am of opinion that there would be no real danger of the consequences which seem to be apprehended to the State governments from a power in the Union to control them in the levies of money, because I am persuaded that the [...]
Last Things: Aquinas’s Oysters
by James V. Schall, S.J. The Moral Liberal Blog, Volume I, ISI.org I. The other day, a former student of mine, who lives in Tennessee, told me that he planned to walk the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. That is one of the great enterprises that I never got around to doing in my youth, though I do recall marching up around Mount [...]
The Federalist No. 31
by Alexander Hamilton Concerning the General Power of Taxation (continued) To the People of the State of New York: IN DISQUISITIONS of every kind, there are certain primary truths, or first principles, upon which all subsequent reasonings must depend. These contain an internal evidence which, antecedent to all reflection or combination, [...]
The Federalist No. 30
by Alexander Hamilton Concerning the General Power of Taxation To the People of the State of New York: IT HAS been already observed that the federal government ought to possess the power of providing for the support of the national forces; in which proposition was intended to be included the expense of raising troops, of building and equipping [...]
The Federalist No. 29
by Alexander Hamilton Concerning the Militia To the People of the State of New York: THE power of regulating the militia, and of commanding its services in times of insurrection and invasion are natural incidents to the duties of superintending the common defense, and of watching over the internal peace of the Confederacy. It requires no skill [...]
The Federalist No. 28
by Alexander Hamilton Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered (continued) To the People of the State of New York: THAT there may happen cases in which the national government may be necessitated to resort to force, cannot be denied. Our own experience has corroborated the lessons taught by the [...]
The Day of Reckoning that Always Comes
by Steve Farrell American Scripture, Volume 1, No. 4 We live in an era which has largely forgotten that with God's gift of agency comes God's "Law of the Harvest" requirement of consequences for choices. As men and women possessed of agency we once understood, that an agent is one who is morally accountable, who has been given the gift of God [...]
The Federalist No. 27
by Alexander Hamilton Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered (continued) To the People of the State of New York: IT HAS been urged, in different shapes, that a Constitution of the kind proposed by the convention cannot operate without the aid of a military force to execute its laws. This, [...]
America: A Holy Land
American Scripture, Volume I, No. 3 BOOK OF ENOS 10 And while I was thus struggling in the spirit, behold, the voice of the Lord came into my amind• again, saying: I will visit thy brethren according to their diligence in keeping my commandments. I have bgiven• unto them this land, and it is a holy land; and I ccurse• it not save it be for [...]
The Federalist No. 26
by Alexander Hamilton Idea of Restraining the Legislative Authority in Regard to the Common Defense Considered To the People of the State of New York: IT WAS a thing hardly to be expected that in a popular revolution the minds of men should stop at that happy mean which marks the salutary boundary between POWER and PRIVILEGE, and combines the [...]
Many Called But Few Chosen
American Scripture, Volume I, No. 3 34 Behold, there are many acalled, but few are chosen. And why are they not chosen? 35 Because their ahearts are set so much upon the things of this bworld, and caspire to the dhonors of men, that they do not learn this one lesson— 36 That the arights of the priesthood are inseparably connected with the [...]
The Federalist No. 25
by Alexander Hamilton The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered (continued) To the People of the State of New York: IT MAY perhaps be urged that the objects enumerated in the preceding number ought to be provided for by the State governments, under the direction of the Union. But this would be, in reality, an inversion of [...]
We Knew of Christ
American Scripture, Volume I, No. 3 Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first [...]
Tough Times, Etiquette, and The Sin of Silence
by Steve Farrell The Moral Liberal, Volume I, No. 9 "Tough times." It's on everybody's mind - and what an abrupt and pleasant about face to see few, if any, holding their tongue in groveling obedience to that 20th Century rule of etiquette that called religious and political discussion in mixed company "sin." The folks are talking, the bells [...]
The Federalist No. 24
by Alexander Hamilton The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered To the People of the State of New York: TO THE powers proposed to be conferred upon the federal government, in respect to the creation and direction of the national forces, I have met with but one specific objection, which, if I understand it right, is this, [...]
The Federalist No. 23
By Alexander Hamilton The Necessity of a Government as Energetic as the One Proposed to the Preservation of the Union To the People of the State of New York: THE necessity of a Constitution, at least equally energetic with the one proposed, to the preservation of the Union, is the point at the examination of which we are now arrived. This [...]
