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ORIGINAL: bondageerone

a supposed civilized country, with too many uncivilized people.

maybe that idiot trump is half right.

I am having just as much entertainment here , as in the depraved section . thank you.

Terri. xx

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The U.S. Constitution can reasonably be seen as a massive tax and mercantilist trade-promotion program. However, there’s a third leg to this stool. It was a national-security program as well – almost a proto-PATRIOT Act. Indeed, these three elements formed an integrated project: it gave the new central government independent power to raise revenue by taxing individuals directly and to establish an army and navy in order to advance, by force if necessary, American trade. This, I submit, was not exactly a libertarian project. It let a terrifying genie out of the bottle ostensibly in order to contain it. Or, as James Madison put it, “You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

While the nationalists (that is, the self-identified but misnamed Federalists) saw military power as essential to the development of American commerce, the ability to raise an army and navy was intended to accomplish more than that, namely, continental hegemony and national security in a hostile world. As Madison, chief architect of the political system embodied in the Constitution, told the Virginia ratifying convention, American was surrounded by countries “whose interest is incompatible with an extension of our power and who are jealous of our resources to become powerful and wealthy. [They] must naturally be inclined to exert every means to prevent our becoming formidable.” Thus the nationalists sought a permanent military establishment – albeit initially small – powerful enough that no nation would, as Donald Trump would say, “mess with us.”

Whom did the Federalists fear? “The hostile nations the Federalists were talking about [Spain and England],” Max M. Edling wrote in A Revolution in Favor of Government: Origins of the US Constitution and the Making of the American State, “had dominions to the north and south of the union, while in the west they fueled the animosity of the Indian nations.”

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

The King is raking in trillions on his adventure here.

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No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

You see, you are as full of shit as a christmas goose, and as cretinous as a dung beetle. Wasnt his to give, and only enforceable when he was alive, hes dead as fuck.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

the paper was not worth wiping anyones ass with in the first place.