Posted on 04/25/2002 9:41:56 AM PDT by Korth
There would have still been a U.S.A., but it would have been of smaller land area, encompassing the northern States but not the South. And I have never heard anyone deny that such would have been the consequences.
Wrong.
A neo-con is a former liberal espousing political conservatism. The definition hasn't changed for the last fifty years.
The north started the war by trying to force the southern States to remain under federal control.
The Squalid 14th Amendment
Ratified by trickery during the federal military dictatorship over the South, this treacherous appendage to the Constitution is an attack on liberty and its American political foundation, states rights.
Roger Pilon and the 14th Amendment
Gene Healy, the libertarian legal scholar who's brought sanity to discussions of an evil amendment, continues his work.
Contra Centralism
Libertarian states rights scholar Gene Healy takes on Clinton Bolick, Roger Pilon, and John McClaughry, advocates of liberty through federal power.
The Supreme Court held in the Prize Cases that the "so-called Confederate states" (to use their phrase) were in rebellion and that the president was authorized/required to put down the rebellion.
Walt
He preserved the reach and range of authority of the government. The government itself wasn't under attack. It was a secession, not a revolution or an insurrection.
Wrong. Without a single centralized polity, Germany would certainly have won... WWI. No German defeat, no Hitler. No Hitler, no Nazism. No Nazism, no WWII (not to mention, no Holocaust). No WWII, no Cold War. And if Communism had survived and remained a threat, it would have been mainly a threat to Germany.
The most difficult thing for most people to fully grasp is that there are legitimate limitations on power. You cannot change the rules, simply because you do not like the way other people are exercising freedoms that they have the right to exercise.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
Neo Cons are former leftist who moved right during the cold war. They've highjacked the conservative movement. The Old Right which was isolationist(just like the founding fathers) in its foreign policy, free trading and wanted to destroy FDRs New Deal.
Neo Cons say the welfare state is here, get used to it. They're also very interventionists on foreign policy. In other words, they want us to bomb the rest of the world back to the stone age. Israel's enemies are our enemies. etc etc.
Doubtless you have not studied the economic and financial situation Washington's administrations operated within but you will find that the credit of the U.S.A. immediately became the best in the world. Because Hamilton insisted that the debts be paid off (not defaulted like a 3d world country as Jefferson wished to do) it made them a source of capital and created the ability to borrow when necessary.
This, in turn, allowed the Union to borrow enormous amounts from creditors with the faith they would get their funds back and the interest. This allowed Lincoln to raise the huge resources to defeat the Slaveocrats who were left to the economic idiocy of printing paper money backed by nothing.
As far as market reactions to statements by the Fed - it reacts wildly to many types of statements unrelated to political figures. And it will ignore the fed when it wants as well. Witness the attempts by Greenspan years ago to caution against the internet stocks rocketing value. At least two years went by before the market paid the slightest attention.
Modern economies cannot function effectively without a banking system. National banks are part of that system and are necessary. It is just foolishness which believes that a metallic standard can assist economic growth. Hamilton understood this since he saw first hand the results of not having sufficient capital in the form of gold. The monetary aspect of debt funding was genius in the highest degree and showed the financial incompetence of Madison and Jefferson neither of which interfered with Hamilton's program after they took power. Monroe realized that the expiration of the charter of the 1st National bank was a great mistake and allowed it to be rechartered for the good of the nation.
Jackson's demogogery and hatred of the 2d bank prevented its re-charter and the country went into its greatest economic collapse prior to the Great Depression.
Mythology is fun but not productive as a guide to policy.
This nation is not falling apart at the seams by any measure except those used by the Black Caucus and Jesse Jackson. I know the lives of myself, family, friends and acquaintences is far better financially than they have been for decades. Now, morality and religion is a different story not related to governmental programs or practices. Hamilton warned repeatedly of the ennervating effects of prosperity and worried that the growing wealth of the nation would weaken its people and make them immoral.
If the people of (say) Alaska decide that assisted suicide should be legal, why should someone in (say) Pennsylvania tell them otherwise?
Joel Miller is opposed to immorality, including the immorality of state coercion.
On the other hand, Alan Keyes is a conservative hero. How can you disagree with him? Perhaps because he has been critical of your hero, neoconservative President George W. Bush, the Neville Chamberlain of the Republican Party...
Keyes' errors, although they are less, lie in the same direction as Bush's.
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