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Saturday, June 8th, 2013Video: The Federalist View of the Constitution
Saturday, June 1st, 2013The United States Constitution is widely misinterpreted today because, in the 19th century, the nationalist interpretation of the document won out. But establishing a nation-state wasn’t the intent of the founders — clearly, if one looks at the debates over ratification in the states. For remember: it was the states that debated and accepted a narrow view of the Constitution as establishing a federation. Not a “nation,” and certainly not an empire.
Two notes of caution: 1. This is a conversation between historian Tom Woods and historian Brion McClanahan, and they are pitching a series of online lectures that I’ve not seen (but am tempted to take a look at: perhaps you will be, too). 2. This is a YouTube video, and many of the comments are not worth reading because ill-mannered and crude.
Labour was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor, 1885. On the same day in 1930, progressive Republican President Herbert Hoover — eager to please agricultural states, and confident that protectionism would yield greater wealth — signed the Smoot-Hawley Tariff. The Great Depression deepens, especially as provisions of the bill take effect.
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