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ParticipantEven if such people were right about the text of the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms would still be protected under the Ninth Amendment, which protects customary rights not enumerated elsewhere. The right to bear arms was such a right for Englishmen.
ParticipantScott Trask has a paper on this: http://mises.org/journals/scholar/trask1.pdf
ParticipantAlso, these online resources, right here at Liberty Classroom:
ParticipantI have seen these statements quoted in H. Newcomb Morse, “The Foundations and Meaning of Secession,” Stetson Law Review 15, 2 (1986), 419-36. If you’re at a university you should be able to get this article via interlibrary loan. Wish I could point you to a more convenient source.
Now opponents of secession will claim that these statements by these states amount simply to an acknowledgment of the right of revolution. This is the way the Straussians deal with these passages. This isn’t secession, they say, which in their view is an absurdity. It is simply a restatement of the Lockean principle that people may overthrow oppressive governments,
ParticipantI don’t know anything about the history of this river, but I agree completely that property rights solve these problems.
ParticipantIt might not be possible, unless you have an unusually educated, alert, and morally serious population. This goes to show the dangers of the state in any form, in my opinion.
ParticipantI have not encountered this. Joe Salerno, in his book Money: Sound and Unsound, is critical of the attenuated gold standard of the 1920s.
Can you be more specific about which “deflationary policies” you are thinking of?
You may find this page helpful: https://libertyclassroom.com/depression.
ParticipantSorry about that; it was an oversight. It’s up now at https://libertyclassroom.com/live.
ParticipantI don’t know of any such legal challenges. You might find some interesting material in this useful article: http://mises.org/daily/3553
ParticipantHere are my thoughts on your questions:
(1) An inflation of prices would occur as a result of monetizing silver. It would be the same effect as a sudden, massive discovery of gold.
(2) Yes, presumably Foner has in mind the federal government’s lack of interest in Greenback or silver schemes.
(3) Foner is way off here, if we’re not taking him out of context. Homestead did not become nonunion until after the strike. The strike was about wages. I recommend the article by Charles Baird, linked on the Populism lecture page.
ParticipantCheck out this article by Kevin: http://www.lewrockwell.com/gutzman/gutzman12.html
ParticipantIn the past, Kevin has recommended A Son of Thunder as a biography of Patrick Henry.
ParticipantI second Brion’s recommendation of the book by Gamble. I haven’t read that particular title, but I suspect it’s an expansion of chapter 1 of The War for Righteousness, Gamble’s book on the American clergy and World War I. That chapter traces the American exceptionalism idea throughout U.S. history.
ParticipantI second Brion’s recommendation of the book by Gamble. I haven’t read that particular title, but I suspect it’s an expansion of chapter 1 of The War for Righteousness, Gamble’s book on the American clergy and World War I. That chapter traces the American exceptionalism idea throughout U.S. history.
ParticipantI don’t know that the definitive book on W has been written. The two-volume Neo-Conned series has some great material on the war in Iraq.
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