So is that why the Hemings family owns Monticello?
With Thomas Jefferson taking the lead in the Virginia legislature in 1777, every Revolutionary state government abolished the laws of primogeniture and entail that had served to perpetuate the concentration of inherited property. Jefferson cited Adam Smith, the hero of free market capitalists everywhere, as the source of his conviction that (as Smith wrote, and Jefferson closely echoed in his own words), "A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural." Smith said: "There is no point more difficult to account for than the right we conceive men to have to dispose of their goods after death."
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Popular Basis of Political Authority: Thomas Jefferson to James Madison
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I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, "that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living": that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The portion occupied by an individual ceases to be his when himself ceases to be, and reverts to the society.
A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.
Aren’t the living descendants considered to be part of society?
Now do GDP growth versus government debt
Property: Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris
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Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris
25 Dec. 178
All Property, indeed, except the Savage's temporary Cabin, his Bow, his Matchcoat, and other little Acquisitions, absolutely necessary for his Subsistence, seems to me to be the Creature of public Convention. Hence the Public has the Right of Regulating Descents, and all other Conveyances of Property, and even of limiting the Quantity and the Uses of it. All the Property that is necessary to a Man, for the Conservation of the Individual and the Propagation of the Species, is his natural Right, which none can justly deprive him of: But all Property superfluous to such purposes is the Property of the Publick, who, by their Laws, have created it, and who may therefore by other Laws dispose of it, whenever the Welfare of the Publick shall demand such Disposition. He that does not like civil Society on these Terms, let him retire and live among Savages. He can have no right to the benefits of Society, who will not pay his Club towards the Support of it.
Ok so let’s talk about this and the dangers of it. But first: I do think it telling that you can’t seem to voice a personal opinion any longer but try to make arguments behind others’ statements. That tells me you don’t have the ability to argue intelligently or have command of the subject matter at hand.
The graph you have on GDP would be very small compared to what it is if you were to take away that one thing that makes a man work himself to death: the prospect of a better life for himself and his children. If a man cannot save there is no reason to work for anything beyond bread, no reason to strive exists. This is what occurred in the communist block countries. The ones who had the socialism you dream of. They failed and then turned their back on such slavery to the government, which was ruled by rich oligarchs.
You can throw out the snippets of letters from the Founding Fathers all day, that doesn’t mean they were right in their thinking in this matter, nor were they gods. Marx had not come along yet and they did not have access to the horrors of communism. It is also noteworthy that they had wills and left their belongings to others.
Agreed and it's the leadership of the military and police forces who protect them from average citizen. The rank-and-file military and police protect their leadership for a paycheck and pension!
The average citizen has zero representation or power in the .gov or their country!
Balanced Government: John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States
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John Adams, Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States
If this is the progress and course of things (and who does not know that it is?) it follows, that it is the true interest and best policy of the common people to take away from the body of the gentlemen all share in the distribution of offices and management of the executive power. Why? Because if any body of gentlemen have the gift of offices, they will dispose of them among their own families, friends, and connections; they will also make use of their votes in disposing of offices, to procure themselves votes in popular elections to the senate or other council, or to procure themselves appointments in the executive department. It is the true policy of the common people to place the whole executive power in one man, to make him a distinct order in the state, from whence arises an inevitable jealousy between him and the gentlemen; this forces him to become a father and protector of the common people, and to endeavor always to humble every proud, aspiring senator, or other officer in the state, who is in danger of acquiring an influence too great for the law or the spirit of the constitution. This influences him to look for merit among the common people, and to promote from among them such as are capable of public employments; so that the road to preferment is open to the common people much more generally and equitably in such a government than in an aristocracy, or one in which the gentlemen have any share in appointments to office.
From this deduction it follows, that the precept of our author [Marchamont Nedham], "to educate children (of the common people) in principles of dislike and enmity against kingly government, and enter into an oath of abjuration to abjure a toleration of kings and kingly powers," is a most iniquitous and infamous aristocratical artifice, a most formal conspiracy against the rights of mankind, and against that equality between the gentlemen and the common people which nature has established as a moral right, and law should ordain as a political right, for the preservation of liberty.
By kings and kingly power is meant, both by our author and me, the executive power in a single person. American common people are too enlightened, it is hoped, ever to fall into such a hypocritical snare; the gentlemen, too, it is hoped, are too enlightened, as well as too equitable, ever to attempt such a measure; because they must know that the consequence will be, that, after suffering all the evils of contests and dissensions, cruelty and oppression, from the aristocratics, the common people will perjure themselves, and set up an unlimited monarchy instead of a regal republic.
JUST IN: Judge Overseeing Sandy Hook Case Freezes Alex Jones' Assets | The Gateway Pundit | by Cristina Laila
A state judge overseeing the Sandy Hook case froze Alex Jones’ assets late Wednesday.www.thegatewaypundit.com
This just raises the stakes. Will this go to SCOTUS, and finally put free speech on the docket?
What else does Jones have to lose? Why would he not appeal?
So if they know this why are they not having a revote
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Maricopa County has admitted in a new statement that 70 out of 223 voting centers were impacted by the election day debacle, where tabulators failed the moment that polls opened on Tuesday.
Democrats Are Wrong To Insist That Dobbs Stopped Red Wave
There is little evidence to back up the theory that Dobbs played a 'big,' or even a minor, part in the GOP’s 2022 underperformance.
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The Arizona Voting Machines Disaster in Maricopa County is Even Worse Than We Thought - El American
Arizona election officials' use of voting machines in Maricopa County has once again cast a dark cloud over a highly contested election.
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President Joe Biden Threatens Elon Musk: 'There's A Lot of Ways' to Intervene in His Twitter Takeover - El American
President Joe Biden on Wednesday threatened Elon Musk with a 'national security' review after taking over Twitter and vowing to implement new safeguards for
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Opinion | 12 More Incidents in Which Lawful Gun Owners Stopped Criminals
Just this year, a more comprehensive study concluded that roughly 1.6 million defensive gun uses occur in the United States every year.
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The Ugly Truth About A Vaccine That Didn’t Work - GreatGameIndia
The KFD pathogen can be fatal. The jab meant to counteract it, however, lost its effectiveness as the regulator dozed off. This is the ugly truth about a vaccine that didn’t work.
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Schumer slams ‘MAGA judge’ for not letting Biden violate constitution with student debt relief order · American Wire News
"This MAGA judge is siding with the special interests over what’s best for the people. This is why we need a Senate Democratic Majority."
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Oregon Sheriff Announces Her Office Won't Enforce New Magazine Ban
Linn County Sheriff Michelle Duncan is making clear her office will not be enforcing Oregon's new "high capacity" magazine ban.
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Yeah, cause nothing else happened during those 18 years that may have had an effect, correlation boy. Hell, right as your little graph starts taking a nose dive, Giuliani took office in NYC and started cleaning up that cesspool. Oh yeah, a fellow named Reagan was entering his second term and the economy was finally pulling out of a nose dive. No wonder you climate morons buy that garbage, you only see the inputs that point toward your preferred narrative.
7-Time Deported Illegal Alien Accused of 5 Rapes over 2 Decades
An illegal alien, deported seven times, is now facing charges that he committed at least five rapes over the course of nearly two decades.
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Two More Oregon Counties Just Voted To Become Part Of The State Of Idaho
Two more counties in Oregon just voted to join the state of Idaho. Several other counties have already done this in recent years. The reasons are pretty simple. These Oregonians are tired of being associated with the radical left that rules the city of Portland and drives policy for the rest of...
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A veteran medical examiner who reviewed 4000 Covid deaths explains how many were REALLY from Covid (and how many were of healthy people)
Dr. Brian Peterson ran the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office until he was suddenly forced to retire in September; did his honesty about Covid cost him his job?
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Nothing in the article was a surprise but it is infuriating to have what we know reinforced time and time again.A veteran medical examiner who reviewed 4000 Covid deaths explains how many were REALLY from Covid (and how many were of healthy people)
Dr. Brian Peterson ran the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office until he was suddenly forced to retire in September; did his honesty about Covid cost him his job?
My very first post in on this site, after a very long time and after losing my username and password from long ago..
I am one of those long time lurkers, who in the past few years, usually sees posts as a result of internet searches. I was once a member but was unable to do a password reset due to my having registered with a U.S. government .gov email account. So here I am now, a new member again.
This thread here, I never read before. On reading the last 3 pages, I have the impression that one individual posting here could likely be the same individual that posts on a facebook webpage that is restricted to those military individuals who have a past or present occupation in INTEL / ELINT /SINGINT specialties. I am amazed at how similiar his posts are to those of that other facebook person. I suspect that he is not that other individual, but one that follows the same path of the one that I am more familiar with.
The individual in this thread posted a quote that seems to imply one thing, but without the rest of the letter the quote is from, I believe lacks context. Here is the paragraph from the letter that the quote was from.
Forgive me for my jumping right into what may be a political firestorm in my first, new post, of my new persona in this website. Or don't!
The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed here on the elementary principles of society has presented this question to my mind; & that no such obligation can be so transmitted I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, ‘that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living’: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The portion occupied by any individual ceases to be his when himself ceases to be, & reverts to the society. If the society has formed no rules for the appropriation of it’s lands in severalty, it will be taken by the first occupants. These will generally be the wife & children of the decedent. If they have formed rules of appropriation, those rules may give it to the wife and children, or to some one of them, or to the legatee of the deceased. So they may give it to his creditor. But the child, the legatee, or creditor takes it, not by any natural right, but by a law of the society of which they are members, & to which they are subject. Then no man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied, or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the paiment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the usufruct of the lands for several generations to come, & then the lands would belong to the dead, & not to the living, which would be the reverse of our principle.
I am one of those long time lurkers, who in the past few years, usually sees posts as a result of internet searches. I was once a member but was unable to do a password reset due to my having registered with a U.S. government .gov email account. So here I am now, a new member again.
This thread here, I never read before. On reading the last 3 pages, I have the impression that one individual posting here could likely be the same individual that posts on a facebook webpage that is restricted to those military individuals who have a past or present occupation in INTEL / ELINT /SINGINT specialties. I am amazed at how similiar his posts are to those of that other facebook person. I suspect that he is not that other individual, but one that follows the same path of the one that I am more familiar with.
The individual in this thread posted a quote that seems to imply one thing, but without the rest of the letter the quote is from, I believe lacks context. Here is the paragraph from the letter that the quote was from.
Forgive me for my jumping right into what may be a political firestorm in my first, new post, of my new persona in this website. Or don't!
The question Whether one generation of men has a right to bind another, seems never to have been started either on this or our side of the water. Yet it is a question of such consequences as not only to merit decision, but place also, among the fundamental principles of every government. The course of reflection in which we are immersed here on the elementary principles of society has presented this question to my mind; & that no such obligation can be so transmitted I think very capable of proof. I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self-evident, ‘that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living’: that the dead have neither powers nor rights over it. The portion occupied by any individual ceases to be his when himself ceases to be, & reverts to the society. If the society has formed no rules for the appropriation of it’s lands in severalty, it will be taken by the first occupants. These will generally be the wife & children of the decedent. If they have formed rules of appropriation, those rules may give it to the wife and children, or to some one of them, or to the legatee of the deceased. So they may give it to his creditor. But the child, the legatee, or creditor takes it, not by any natural right, but by a law of the society of which they are members, & to which they are subject. Then no man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied, or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the paiment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the usufruct of the lands for several generations to come, & then the lands would belong to the dead, & not to the living, which would be the reverse of our principle.
Grades of Attractive Women Fell After Classes Moved Online: Study
Swedish research shows the grades of attractive females fell when classes moved online during lockdown, while attractive males were unchanged
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Oregon Sheriff Announces Her Office Won't Enforce New Magazine Ban
Linn County Sheriff Michelle Duncan is making clear her office will not be enforcing Oregon's new "high capacity" magazine ban.
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WOW!
UK: Six Local Govts Take Central Govt to Court to Stop Migrant Hotels
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Report: Chicago Man Cuts Off Ankle Monitor, Attempts to Murder 2 People in IA
A Chicago man was arrested on Monday for allegedly cutting off his electric monitoring bracelet before driving to Iowa and attempting to murder two people, CWB Chicago reported.
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Aw shit.......
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Gallagher passes away at 76…
Gallagher died while under hospice care in the Palm Springs area early Friday morning. His manager said Gallagher died of massive organ failure. He had been in ill health for a…
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What about the ugly ones?Grades of Attractive Women Fell After Classes Moved Online: Study
Swedish research shows the grades of attractive females fell when classes moved online during lockdown, while attractive males were unchanged
Interaction with blinde takes attention away from reality. He is disingenuous. It is not by accident that he and others like him distract. Like the guy in boot camp who couldn’t stop fiddling with his shit before an inspection is the guy who continues to engage blinde.
