representation

Ferrara – Democracy Fail, How’s Taxation WITH Representation Working?

"When that idea [democracy] is introduced, you have coming into the political structure of a society this whole notion of representation, that government is a compact between the people and the government as established through their representatives. The great irony of representation is that over time it swallows up everything and destroys true liberty. If anybody doubts that, let me ask a simple question: How has taxation with representation worked […]

June 16, 2014 17

The Founders

What Really Happened At Start Of Federal Convention Of 1787, Pt. II

Interview With Kevin Gutzman Part II Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "On this day, on May the 29th -- I just went back and read the record from Farrand’s records last night. This doesn’t have anything to do with James Madison, but I know you know about this. I noted that at this juncture of the meeting on May the 29th, Judge Yates has yet to blow a gasket. […]

June 4, 2014 11

Daily Clip

No Reform For Ailing US Save For Rethinking The American Union

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Number one, cleanse your mind of points A, B and C because they’re not going to happen unless we can get the federal monster and its representative forms back into scale. Okay, how are we going to do that? Well, we would need to have one member of Congress for approximately every 30,000 citizens. That would mean that we would have just over 10,000 […]

April 25, 2014 2

Transcripts

George Mason and Granting Congress Direct Tax Power in the Constitution

George Mason and Direct Tax Power Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – "George Mason was an epicurean republican aristocrat. He was one of the wisest men of his generation and Mason was having none of this talk about having a new central government that was going to have the power to lay and collect direct taxes. Of course, Madison and company would say they’re not direct taxes, they’re indirect, but we’ll […]

April 16, 2014 12

The Founders

Here’s An Example From Jefferson On How To Argue Your Position In A Scholarly Manner

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – How many times have you checked your email, gone to your Facebook page, gone to your Twitter feed, go to your blog on your website and someone has gotten into an internet spat or an electronic spat with someone else and they have played the final trump card? What is it? It’s a quote. How many times have you seen a quote played as […]

November 25, 2013 10

Transcripts

What Will It Take For You People To See That Federalism And The Constitution Are Dead And Buried?

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Let’s go all the way back to 1787 and let’s figure out why there was a Senate to start with. To answer that question is to shed some light on the way things are supposed to work in the American constitutional system, which, by the time I’m finished with this, it’s not the way I’m going to tell you they work because they don’t […]

November 25, 2013 7

Transcripts

Apathetic Sheeple, Ginned-Up Revolutionaries, HealthCare.gov… Welcome To America

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I think you would have a revolution in thought before you’d have a revolution in government, meaning you would know and you will know when a clamoring mass of people are agitated enough and in sufficient numbers to either demand a change or to effect a change as a result of that demand. People keep asking the same question, don’t they? Isn’t that interesting? […]

November 18, 2013 7

Transcripts

Yes Virginia, There Is A Problem With State Elections… But The Focus Should Be On Your Community First

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – Wouldn’t it then be a quid pro quo to say then that the people that live in the purple or blue counties are as entitled to their own share or their own self-government as the people that are in the red counties? If they are, then what is the argument to say we’re going to deny the people in the other counties the right […]

November 8, 2013 5

Transcripts

2013 America Should Be More Like 1789 America

Mandeville, LA – Exclusive Transcript – I don’t think that having aged members of the United States Senate is, by definition, a bad thing. That’s why the age requirement to be a senator makes you five years older than you have to be to be a member of the House of Representin’. The framers did consider: What’s the difference between the House of Representatives and the Senate? It was debated […]

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