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[QUOTE=PierzStyx;6517077]Responses in bold.

[QUOTE=Swordsmyth;6517048]"you may not go outside OR play video games" means plying video games=going outside?

[B]Not necessarily. Which is why context is important. Here the context is given clearly in the first paragraph I quoted, which I will do here again for you:

[QUOTE]As to the intention of the framers of the Constitution in the clause relating to "the migration and importation of persons, ...

[QUOTE=PierzStyx;6516890][QUOTE=Swordsmyth;6516577]I'll take Jefferson's word over the Heritage Foundation's any day.

The exercise, by our own citizens, of so much commerce as may suffice to exchange our superfluities for our wants, may be advantageous for the whole. But, it does not follow, that with a territory so boundless, it is the interest of the whole to become a mere city of London, to carry on the business of one half the world at the expense of eternal war with the ...

[QUOTE=r3volution 3.0;6502572][QUOTE=Swordsmyth;6502557]And they got their taste for globe straddling empire as well as other forms of extravagant government spending from the Greeks among others.[/QUOTE]

The Roman republic was aggressively expansionist from the very beginning. I can provide specific examples if you like.

Now, I will agree that ultimately it was the sheer size of the empire which caused its fall.

The basic story goes something like ...

Some quick thoughts on the just released AFP-NH 2017 Scorecard

NH House:
12 bills dealing with subjects such as reducing the cost of health insurance and improving the quality of education

Tripartisan breakdown
100% Scores
Republicans – 49 (Not voting wasn’t counted against the legislators so even though Speaker Jasper only voted once, he had a 100% score as he voted to increase worker freedom)
Libertarians – 2
Democrat – 0
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Originally Posted by acptulsa

So, you take a sniff, mistake an anti-Fed argument for a minimum wage argument, and jump off board? Do you think victims of inflation and the systematic destruction of manufacturing jobs should be stripped of the right to vote, but corporations should get to vote even though they are things, not people? You say government is the problem, not the corporations, but I don't see you acknowledging who or what it is that is paying the lobbyists to make the particular bribes they make.

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