Okay, it's one day late, actually - but it's the thought that counts.
Yesterday was the 237th anniversary of the first day of Shays' Rebellion.
Several years and one Constitution later, the Whiskey Rebellion would break out.
https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/s...83048303616186
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- "When law and morality are in contradiction to each other, the citizen finds himself in the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense, or of losing his respect for the law."
-- The Law (p. 54)- "Government is that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
-- Government (p. 99)- "[W]ar is always begun in the interest of the few, and at the expense of the many."
-- Economic Sophisms - Second Series (p. 312)- "There are two principles that can never be reconciled - Liberty and Constraint."
-- Harmonies of Political Economy - Book One (p. 447)· tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito ·
Originally Posted by Occam's Banana
Okay, it's one day late, actually - but it's the thought that counts.
Yesterday was the 237th anniversary of the first day of Shays' Rebellion.
Several years and one Constitution later, the Whiskey Rebellion would break out.
https://twitter.com/AuronMacintyre/s...83048303616186
Those Federalists really knew how to throw a coup, didn’t they?
Chris
"Government ... does not exist of necessity, but rather by virtue of a tragic, almost comical combination of klutzy, opportunistic terrorism against sitting ducks whom it pretends to shelter, plus our childish phobia of responsibility, praying to be exempted from the hard reality of life on life's terms." Wolf DeVoon
"...Make America Great Again. I'm interested in making American FREE again. Then the greatness will come automatically."Ron Paul
That they did.
And isn't it amusing (in a dark-grim kind of way) that some people still try to use the Constitution as a source of arguments against taxes (while the much-vaunted "Bill of Rights" was just an afterthought tacked on as a sop to anti-Federalists)?
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