Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Right on power and privilege?

Right on power and privilege? “It was a thing hardly to be expected that in a popular revolution the minds of men should stop at that happy mean which marks the salutary boundary between POWER AND PRIVILEGE, and combines the energy of government with the security of private rights. A failure in this delicate and important point is the great source of the inconveniences we experience...” Hamilton is right - power and privilege accumulate in a central government. “Unless we presume at the same time that the power of the general government will be worse administered than those of the State government, there seems to be no room for the presumption of ill-will, disaffection, or opposition in the people. I believe it may be laid down as a general rule that their confidence in and obedience to a government will commonly be proportioned to the goodness or badness of its administration.” Hamilton is right again - power and privilege can corrupt the administration of a central government. Power and privilege - who could have guessed? We being inconvenienced today? Who could have guessed. Is there hope? Maybe. Each graduate will receive 14 tickets to Obama’s commencement address at Ohio State because enthusiasm has not been as high as expected! Could it be that the sheeple of Ohio have finally realized the Emperor Has No Clothes!

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