tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16809640.post2542230512073788733..comments2023-06-07T06:02:08.343-07:00Comments on One for the Ages: Heating up!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04973448750714819716noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16809640.post-86866494024408342042008-05-07T06:20:00.000-07:002008-05-07T06:20:00.000-07:00I tried to whittle down my answer, but three pages...I tried to whittle down my answer, but three pages was as far as I could get - I know, a dull knife - I'll try taking an axe to it here, giving a few points alone, and ref you to <A HREF="http://blogodidact.blogspot.com/2008/05/ignoring-principle-on-principle.html" REL="nofollow">my new post</A>, if you're interested. <BR/><BR/>I think, goes far beyond the particulars of politicsand political actions amongst political people, but there was for a time something that kept them within reasonable bounds… and when you find that "They still have enlarged the system by giving either their enemies or friends a stake in the system.", it usually means that a principle has been neglected.<BR/><BR/>The particular principle that was lost grasp of, was the 'general welfare' clause of the constitution, the understanding and will to stick to what Madison understood it as "If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions.", is gone. It was lost in understanding due to Hume, Rousseau, Godwin, Kant, etc, and in practice, beginning with the 'Land Grant' colleges, the first real breach of the limits of the Federal Gov't bounds, it was done by the Progressives, and the field of Education was and has remained their primary means of expanding that breach.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com