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The constitution was written by men over 200 years ago to reflect their own interests at the time. Along with a deeper understanding of the natural world, people today have different interests and different values (along with not being sexist racists).
So what should chaining ourselves to a 220-plus-year-old political compromise between Northern protectionist merchants [...]
Webster’s dictionary had defined “inflation” as “an increase in the amount of currency in circulation resulting in a relatively sharp and sudden fall in its value and a rise in prices.”
Today, it calls inflation “a continuing rise in the general price level usually attributed to an increase in the volume of money and [...]
I have heard people who are disgruntled with the actions of the federal government sometimes romanticize the notion of a violent backlash by armed resistors. It is not so much done with the understanding that the disgruntled person would necessarily approve of the armed rebellion, but they convey that violence would put the government back [...]
I was listening to an episode of The Fuze, a local internet show co-hosted by Ken Emanuelson of the Dallas Tea Party, with former New Mexico governor Garry Johnson as his guest.
The show got contentious when the discussion moved to immigration. From my understanding, Emanuelson is concerned that mass immigration will drive down [...]
On Nov. 2, tens of millions of Americans will exercise their political franchise to play their part in shaping the future of the country, or so the story goes.
I do not like it any more than anyone else. Most voters will gleefully cast their ballots for politicians openly seeking the legal sanction to aggress [...]
Silly question, right? Of course, consequences matter. More precisely, how do consequences affect one’s ethical beliefs? We hear all the time how there is a dichotomy between how one should act and how one must act to satisfy his or her best interests.
After looking at the deontological (or rule-based) and the consequentialist basis for [...]
Probably the most common objection to a stateless society is that invading armies will occupy the country and establish a new state. The idea is that a minimal state could ward off that threat in the same way that a flu shot, which contains a vastly weakened form of the flu virus, theoretically prevents an [...]
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Defining ‘Authority’
If authority is the willingness and ability to command obedience to one’s will, authoritarianism would be a belief that someone is superior in some manner (ethically, politically, ect.) because he or she has such authority.
Since government, as popularly constructed, is given the sole discretion of interpreting and enforcing the law, even in conflicts between [...]