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After tense week, Boston at ease once again
Red Sox bring sense of normalcy, comfort to fans in return to Fenway
BOSTON -- Now we have had a second "first game back after." It happened here Saturday afternoon, and it seemed to work. It came wrapped in the unsettling prospect of a third; some things can't be helped. And the targeted city was different this time; though the haunting sense was and is the same. We're all confounded, frightened and angry. Some of us filed into Fenway Park on Saturday full of resolve, others full of ifs, ands and buts. All of us sensed some emptiness.
The first time, a sports arena, Shea Stadium, was the setting for our first session of post-traumatic group therapy. This time, the despicables used an athletic venue as the stage for their madness. Though the toll was significantly greater 12 years ago, the more recent episode seemed more insidious and ominous.
Shea gave us Diana Ross and Liza Minnelli in 2001, hoping their singing would lift us and turn a page for some. It gave us bagpipes and hundreds of men in city uniforms, cops, firemen and all the others. They shared in the pall bearing, carrying the weight of the world.
Fenway Park was a tad more understated Saturday, if an American flag as wide as the Green Monster can be considered a subtle touch. Far fewer men in blue, though, and "God Bless America" was handled by a state trooper. The pregame singing responsibilities -- "The Star-Spangled Banner" -- were assigned to the thousands who paid to witness the Royals engage the Red Sox.
The Sox smartly -- appropriately -- made celebrities of the folks who were in the midst. Here, in the capital of the Commonwealth, the common man was asked to take a bow for the courage and cooperation he had demonstrated hours before the good guys caught the guy improperly dressed in a white hat Friday.
Shea usually played Lou Monte's "Lazy Mary" in the seventh inning, not that night in September 2001, of course. Fenway has given us Neil Diamond in the eighth since 2002. It did again Saturday, though, in person this time. Diamond flew in from L.A., unbeknownst to the Sox, and led 35,000 in "Sweet Caroline." They sang, "Hurtin' runs off my shoulder" less than a week after pressure cooker bombs had mutilated so many common men.
The Mets 12 years ago and the Sox on Saturday handled it all quite well. Just the right amounts of dignity, pathos, patriotism, celebrity, silence, resolve and residual but muted outrage. Baseball already is skilled and accomplished in these "first games back after," pregame programs. No city or ballpark needs more practice or experience in such mourning-after gatherings.
But "enough is enough" doesn't work any more -- anywhere. There always is another Satan to taint the Tylenol, annihilate a grammar school or drive a lethal pickup into our quality of life and sense of security. If only there was a finish line for evil.
Instead the remedial powers of the summer game were summoned once more Saturday. Raise a pennant, wave a flag. Wave a magic wand and make it all disappear. And hope for favorable forces.
Some were on display here outside the green cathedral Saturday. A representative of the common man turned sharply on the sidewalk separating the ballpark from Van Ness Street, crossed the macadam and embraced a cop. "Thank you, thank all of you," is all he said.
Four giddy teenage girls with obvious origami skills wore hats they had fashioned from white placards distributed by a local radio station. The red Red Sox "B," outlined in white against a circular, navy blue background, was on each placard. The word strong in a powerful, upper-case font appeared under the city's favored consonant. The girls saluted three soldiers dressed in camouflage.
A passerby noted that the presence of soldiers outside Fenway was a security measure usually reserved for visits by the Yankees.
Of course, red, white and blue were the colors of the day, even with the royal blue team in the other dugout. They always are when the Sox are home, though they seemed a tad more vivid Saturday. The entire city was vivid again as if it had been washed in Tide with brighteners, after an odd, inactive and anxious Friday.
Folks on the streets smiled at each other again Saturday. On Friday, the few who ignored the "stay inside" urging of the mayor offered smiles only after they had studied the faces of passersby as a part of some unofficial surveillance. City-wide suspicion had been in effect without order or urging.
Inside Fenway, players and fans were pleased to return to the comforting routine that had been interrupted by the postponement of the first game of the series Friday night.
"I'm so glad to be out here again," Red Sox outfielder Jonny Gomes said to no one in particular during batting practice.
Royals outfielder Jeff Francoeur spoke the identical phrase a minute later before musing about how he and his comrades had rooted against Suspect No. 2 the night before.
"I don't think anyone cared how they got him," Francoeur said, "after what they did. The city was paralyzed yesterday."
Fifteen feet from Francoeur, a father snapped a shot of his smiling son holding a baseball as if it were a precious stone with the Monster as a backdrop. The boy didn't resemble in detail Martin Richard of Dorchester, the 8-year-old killed near the end of the Marathon on Monday. But this boy was young and happy and had a full complement of teeth. His expression tugged at those who linked the two.
Shortly before the game, the center-field video screen began to display photographs of the marathon's premature ending. A series of still shots were, nonetheless, moving pictures that met with applause and cheers. Photos of the governor prompted an exclusively positive response, a Boston-New York dissimilarity. Aside from half-dozen postseason moments, some instances Saturday were as emotional as anything this venerable arena had seen since Mr. Theodore Ballgame was wheeled across the lawn before the 1999 All-Star Game, instances as splendid as the Splinter himself.
The official ceremonies included each team queuing up on the foul lines, a grand re-Opening Day, and a wonderfully written -- by Dr. Charles Steinberg, the Sox's executive VP -- statement that expressed what Fenway wanted to hear. It said, in part:
"Today, we gather as one. And we affirm to ourselves and to each other that we are one -- one community, one nation, one world, full of love, full of compassion and full of generosity. Those feelings, powerful all of them, fuel us with passion. To never quit. To persevere. To prevail.
"We will run another Marathon -- one bigger and better than ever.
"We are one. We are Boston. We are strong. We are Boston Strong."
And it all worked. Boston had stood at attention, rigid and staring straight ahead, not wanting to look, for too many days. It was at ease again Saturday. Baseball had helped it regain its confidence and equilibrium and perhaps added to its swagger. The Sox are in first place, after all. And they won Saturday with Daniel Nava doing in the second "first game back after" what Mike Piazza had done in the first.
Nava's home run came in the eighth and was good for three runs. Piazza's home run against the Braves came in the eighth as well and provided two runs. In each case, the home team won by a run. Huh! So Boston already is healing. So it's not "Bitter-Sweet Caroline" after all. So far, so good, so good, so good.
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Utah retail chain expands to 22 states
09/22/2013 1:14pmFanzz sports apparel stores, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Utah Jazz, is acquiring Just Sports, a retail chain of licensed apparel stores based in the Pacific Northwest. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
Hiker stranded overnight in SF Canyon rescued
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09/22/2013 4:23pmOn the Squaw Peak overlook Saturday afternoon, a small crowd gathered to watch a golden eagle take flight for the first time in a long time.
Wendover crash leaves 5 injured
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37 new charges for Midvale man involved in April SWAT standoff
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Heavy rains in Moab; flash flood warnings in place for eastern Utah
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Teen critically injured in ATV accident
09/22/2013 10:14pmFor the second time in two days, a teenager was critically injured Sunday in an ATV accident in Hobble Creek Canyon.
Cyclist killed after colliding with minivan
09/22/2013 11:59pmPolice have released the name of a 58-year-old bicyclist who was killed Sunday evening after colliding with a vehicle.
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Talk:World Archives Project: Liverpool, United Kingdom, Crew Lists 1860-1919
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Common Keying Errors Found by Reviewers
Entering the name of the "Skipper" from the crew list signatures. The instructions clearly state: "All names should be keyed from these registers except for ship masters" - Masters are also known as Captain or Skipper.
Lpool should be keyed as Lpool, not Liverpool
Assuming a nationality and putting it in the nationality column. For example, the image says "born in Antwerp" and then the keyer puts Belgian in the Nationality column. Just because they were born in Antwerp doesnt mean their nationality was Belgian at birth or as they grew up. You must "key as seen" and not infer information that isn't on the record.
Adding a date on the crew list page and entering it as the Registry date from the columns next to the crew list. The registry date is only taken from where it says "received at" on the Ship Information pages (also at the bottom of these pages where the Master signs).
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If you have a keying question that is not answered on the project page or in any of the information above, click "EDIT" and ask it here. (If you click on Rich Editor you won't have to worry about formatting your entry.) Then click "WATCH" at the top right on this page and you will be notified via email when an update has been made.
Q: The project instructions state that we should "Choose the Image No Data form type for images where there is neither keyable data, nor data which is not being keyed but will be marked Cover Page, Section Header, etc. Examples include blank forms, Crew Lists, or Ship's Logs." Does a form count as blank if the ship name is filled in at the top of the sheet with nothing else written on it? Or would it be a Cover Page in that case? --Katerimmer 09:17, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
A: Only if the forms are blank should the record be considered an Image with no data. So if the record is not a Ship Information form but there is information written on the record then it should be classified as a Cover page, Section header. Annafechter 17:08, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
Q: I have a form here that appears to be part of a crew list (page 6, continuing with more information for the crew members on page 7 of it, to be exact). It has no date at the top of it, nor does it have a birth year column. Many of the crew member's first names are abbreviated as well. However, it has a "Wages per Week" column and "To whom to be paid" column, along with a whole slew of information pertaining to fishing ("Share of Fishing Profits", "Character" columns, "Discharge" columns, etc.) The other document in this image set was pertaining to a fishing expedition, which I marked as "Cover page, etc.", but it also contained a date. And thus, I have several questions. Should I use the date from the previous document to key this one and to properly assess the birth year of those in the crew list? Should I just assume all of the crew members nationalities as "British"? (I know the project instructions ask you to name the town if the person is British, but if I already listed the town name do you really need to list it again? The town names of the crew members are as follows: London, Liverpool, Gorleston, Peel, Gorleston, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Birkenhead, Yarmouth, Liverpool, Scarborough, Liverpool, Liverpool, Liverpool, Liverpool) Do I leave the keying information areas not listed on the document simply blank? Do I even key this document? I find the whole thing very perplexing.
A: No, you should not take the date from the previous image. Also, if there is not a birth year or nationality given on the record these fields should be left blank. Annafechter 20:38, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Q: I have a document headed "Merchant Shipping (Fishing Boats) Act, 1883", and below that "Application for Exemption". There is one ship listed on it with some information about it. The only date is a stamped date of 19 July 88. Not sure if this is a document I should be entering. It's obviously not a crew list but the only fields requested from the only other form type, Ship Information, are the Registry Day, Month and Year. Not sure if this fits, and if the stamp date is the Registry date. Please help so that I don't make a mistake - do I key this page at all?
A: Yes, this record should be keyed. It is a Ship Information form type. Here are the instructions for when there is only a stamped date, "If these form lines are blank, check for a stamped date somewhere on the page. If the form lines for the date are blank, key the year only from the stamped date." Annafechter 20:38, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Q: A couple of questions. Some documents have a hand written date- do I key that if there is no stamped date? Pages of the Log are shown in the examples as being Cover Pages- but some of these have the names of crewmen on them. In that case do I list any names that are mentioned and call it a Crew List?
A: Yes, the written date should be used if it is present.
A: Without seeing the images I can't be sure - if there are lists of crewmen it would be classified as a Crew List, if it is correspondence that contains a crew members name it would be classified as a Cover page form. Annafechter 20:38, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
Q: There is a Certificate of Discharge form that has just one crewman's name and details on it. Do I put this as a cover page?
A: Yes, the individual Certificates of Discharge should be classified as Cover page, Section Header, etc. Annafechter 13:00, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
Q. When a town is listed under Nationality, do I key it in the Birthplace, ie - Liverpool, or under Nationality as British - or do I key under both?
- A: The field help for Nationality states to "key the locality into the birthplace field". In your example you would enter Liverpool in the Birthplace field and leave the Nationality field empty.
Q. On the Crew Lists pages that have age and Birthplace, normally there is no stamped date. I have the same questions as Len stated below about what date should be used or should be we leave it coded as blank?
- A: It sounds like there is a date on the record - is it after the words, "Received at"? The date does not need to be a stamped date, many are written in. If I am not understanding your question please post a screen shot so we can see the record. Annafechter 01:14, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
Q. Since 'Master' is not supposed to be coded, does that mean that we are not supposed to code the 1st name on the Crew lists that is entered after 'Master'? I thought that was included as a member of the crew, but now am not sure when I read the comment about Common problems seen by the Reviewers.
A: Just found this on the UK forum...."It means not to key the Master when his name is written in somewhere other than as a member of the crew, but it isn't explained in the instructions for this project. If you look at the discussion page for the Dorset Crew Lists it is explained in there:"
Dorset Crew List Link: [1]
A: The instructions for this project are slightly different from those for the Dorset Crew Lists. Anna has said about the Liverpool Crew Lists "This project is specifically for the Crew Lists. We have a separate project (I am not sure if we will be keying it through AWAP or not) for the master's certificates so their names will be keyed there." So we are not to key the names of the Masters, even when they are included on the crew list.
Q: With the Crew Lists I have been using the columns under the heading "Date and Place of signing this Agreement" where there has been no "Received at..." or "Shipping Master ....", is this correct? The date is usually correct for the whole of the crew list except where a seaman has been signed on in another port. I have found it very useful with names to check the "sign on" signatures against the "discharged" signatures. Another question with birth place abbreviations; often for example Liverpool is shorten to Lpl, L'pl, L'pool, for Belfast shorten B'fast, Bfast and for Birkenhead to B'head or Bh'd. Is it correct to put the apostrophe in or do you omit it?
One final question with Ship Information. On many occassions where documents have been lodged with Consulated on the certificate pages of the ships log again there is no stamping of "Received at ..." so I have used the earliest date the Consular has signed the the log entry. There may be several entries at different dates. Is this correct or should I enter each entry as new sections where the dates differ? Thanks Len
A: Birthplaces should be keyed as seen so if it is has an apostrophe L'pool", key it as that.
With regards to the registry date I found this quote from the UK area of the forum: [2]
"The Registry date will typically be on either the top or the bottom of the record and should appear after where it says Received At, or something similar to that or it may be stamped somewhere on the page. If you don't see something like that on the image you are keying, simply leave that information blank."
Q: When a town is listed under Nationality, do I key it as a birthplace, such as Liverpool, or do I key in the Nationality as British - or both? Also, if I'm not sure where the town is am I expected to google to out the nationality? Thanks, Pam
A: Do not assume the nationality unless it is definitely written on the record. For example, do not assume the nationality is British if they were born in Liverpool.
Q: OT checking to see if this is in the right place...
- A: I am not sure what the right place is. Did you have a question about the Liverpool Crew Lists we could help with? Afechter1 05:50, 8 October 2013 (UTC)
Q: I have a document 'Release at Termination of Voyage' which lists the signatures of crew (no dobs etc) please could you let me know if this would be classified as a crew list?
If you have a suggestion or would like to make an addition to the project page, click "EDIT" and post your suggestion here. (If you click on Rich Editor you won't have to worry about formatting your entry.) Then click "WATCH" at the top right on this page and you will be notified via email when an update has been made.
Since LPool shows up so frequently, could you add it to the dictionary, please?
On the Crew Lists pages that have age and Birthplace, normally there is no stamped date. I have the same questions as Len does above about what date should be used or should be we leave it coded as blank. I have found it very helpful after entering all of the crew members, ages, and birthdates to scroll to the right side where the crew members have signed their names again under the Release column. Many times, there is a better understanding of what was written and / or the entire name is on the right side but only an initial is on the left side.
Also, I think that it would be helpful to know when we are entering things incorrectly or skipping records or miscoding record types? If we are not made aware of what we are doing wrong, then we will consistently make the same errors. Is there anyway that we can find out what is being done incorrectly to improve the process for everyone?
Thanks Linda
Yes please, I want the same questions answered as the above posters. Also, there's a lot of places that need adding to the list of birthplaces: Arbroath, Glasgow, Belfast, Cork, Wexford, Hamburg, come up on many pages. AND if we have to key as we see - should Lpool be added to the list of birthplaces. Thanks Kathy
Hi there, I'd like to support what Kathy says above. I have now done quite a few of these and would guess that well over 50% of crew members were born in Ireland or Northern Ireland, but there are very few Irish localities on the dropdown. I have made a list/ table in "Word" of about 50 of the most common localities I have encountered in Ireland, Northern Ireland and a few in Scotland and will be happy to email them to you if you let me know which email address?
Thanks Sylvestersmum
I, also, would really appreciate some feedback on the mistakes I'm making. I would love to get it right, but I can't really know if I don't get some feedback. Thank you.


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The resolution on the table was to approving a secondary and extra duty employment for the Salisbury Police Department (SPD) personnel and authorizing the police chief to enter into contracts which allow police officers to provide either uniform or non-uniform law enforcement services to private businesses and to also allow officers and civilian personnel to work non-law enforcement, non-contractual secondary employment.
Council President Terry Cohen explained that Police Chief Barbara Duncan has been approving such cases one-by-one, the first agreement being with the Centre of Salisbury, and as other requests were made, such as by Wal-Mart during the holiday season last year, confusion arose on how the procedure would be implemented.
According to Administrative Commander Major David Nleienscliein, for many months the officers of the SPD have been working extra duty assignments at the Centre at Salisbury. A contract was drawn up by the city attorney and approved by the council authorizing this employment of the officers.
According to the resolution, the police department has created a policy and standard contract which outlines the conditions of all extra duty and secondary employment for sworn and non-sworn personnel.
"Extra Duty" is defined as contractual employment of sworn police officers authorized to perform uniform or non-uniform law enforcement services for private businesses and within the authority of the Police Department; and "Secondary Employment" is defined as non-contractual, non- law enforcement and non-uniformed employment of sworn or non-sworn employees working outside of the authority and not related to the Police Department.
The goal of this policy and standard contract is to streamline the process to monitor and evaluate secondary and extra duty work assignments and no costs will be incurred by the police department or the city of Salisbury.
"I would like to thank the chief for moving this along and institutionalizing as a policy so that it will be more streamlined and easier to implement," Council Vice President Deborah Campbell said. "It is certainly a benefit for our business community and for our sworn officers."
The council voted unanimously to approve the resolution.


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There is a monster on the loose, and it is out to eat your brain. Pitiless in its advance and deadly in its cunning, sudoku, a seemingly simple numbers game, has become the biggest puzzle craze to hit the world since Rubik's Cube.
It's all over the newspapers, spreading across the Internet and heading for television in Britain, yet its phenomenal popularity raises some puzzling questions.
Such as why, in a high-speed, hyper-technological age — without noticeable fanfare or promotion — would millions of people become addicted to a game invented more than 200 years ago by a blind Swiss mathematician?
Has math phobia, so widespread among old and young, gone taken a jump? Can sudoku interest kids in numbers, doing for school math what Harry Potter has done for reading in the age of TV and computers?
"Sudoku is bound to make kids interested in math, even those who run away from the subject, as it is very enjoyable," says Amal Bhaumik, former senior math teacher, South Point High School.
"A child needs to juggle a lot of factors simultaneously to solve a sudoku puzzle. So it sharpens his reasoning and computation skills."
"Puzzles are a very interesting way of making a child discover underlying patterns in things, which is what math is all about," says Debkumar Mitra, research director, Derek O' Brien & Associates.
"Unfortunately, in India, we encourage children to learn by rote. Sudoku is just one way of getting a child interested in numbers as he unknowingly discovers a lot of underlying patterns."
The National Council for Educational Research and Training, involved in a syllabus revamp to make learning enjoyable, might take note.
Why is sudoku fun? The simple answer might be that puzzles are fun and new puzzles even more fun. But the truth is more complicated.
Humans have been puzzling since the dawn of time, and the ability to think logically has long been recognised by science as a key element of natural selection. All societies puzzle but, as a rule, the most successful ones puzzle more.
"You cannot find a culture, no matter how technologically primitive or advanced, that does not have puzzle traditions," says Marcel Danesi, professor of semiotics at Toronto University and author of The Puzzle Instinct.
In this sense, sudoku is neither new nor old. The game requires you to fill in a 9x9 square grid (broken down into nine mini grids) with the numbers one to nine, arranged in such a way that each line, column and mini grid contains one of each number. The objective is childishly simple, yet infuriatingly difficult to achieve.
Yet ominous reports pour in of "sudoku seizure". In workplaces in Britain, stories are circulating of people unable to make their children's breakfasts, leave for the office or go to bed at night until they have solved their sudoku.
"I don't think it will be a problem as long as it remains an enthusiasm and doesn't become an addiction," says Prof Mark Griffith, a psychologist from Nottingham Trent University. "An enthusiasm gives you something. An addiction takes something away."
Sudoku — or something very similar to it — was invented in the 1780s by Leonhard Euler, a mathematical virtuoso from Basle. When he lost his sight in early middle age and was unable to work from books, he developed the ability to compute complex sums in his head and a talent for composing puzzles.
He invented a grid-based puzzle and named it "Latin squares". It was, in all material aspects, identical to sudoku, yet it remained barely noticed until it turned up — renamed the "number place game" — in America in the 1980s.
It was spotted by Nobuhiko Kanamoto, employee of a Japanese puzzle magazine. The Japanese made the game slightly more difficult and renamed it sudoku, meaning "number single". Today there are at least five Japanese sudoku magazines with a total circulation of 660,000.
It began appearing in The Times, London last November and has since spread to every newspaper. A mobile phone version is up and running. TV pilots are being planned. Certainly nothing comparable has been seen since 100 million Rubik's Cubes were sold in the early 1980s.
Crime writer P.D. James has suggested that puzzles ultimately serve our desire for "a restoration of order". We want, she says, to know that things have a core logic and a definitive answer.
So they are out there, in every home, on every Metro train, in every office. Scribbling, scratching, swearing... sudokuing. Will it be the puzzle that ate the world?


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Re: The turbulent spectacle of democracy: Madison 1787, Federalist 10
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"[D]emocracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." --James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 1787
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John Adams on Property 1787
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"The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If 'Thou shalt not covet' and 'Thou shalt not steal' were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free." --John Adams, 1787
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"The foundation on which all [constitutions] are built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every preeminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a preeminence by birth." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to George Washington, 1784
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that quote is impossible to follow, it can be read too many ways
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Not the best of sentence structure, but I see only one reading:
The only pre-eminence is that "annexed to legal office".
What else are you seeing?
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in context i am helped greatly.
TO General Washington.
Annapolis, April 16, 1784.
Dear Sir,
I received your favor of April the 8th, by Colonel Harrison, The subject of it is interesting, and, so far as you have stood connected with it, has been matter of anxiety to me; because, whatever may be the ultimate fate of the institution of the Cincinnati, as, in its course, it draws to it some degree of disapprobation, I have wished to see you standing on ground separated from it, and that the character which will be handed to future ages at the head of our Revolution, may, in no instance, be compromitted in subordinate altercations. The subject has been at the point of my pen in every letter I have written to you, but has been still restrained by the reflection that you had among your friends more able counsellors, and, in yourself, one abler than them all. Your letter has now rendered a duty what was before a desire, and I cannot better merit your confidence than by a full and free communication of facts and sentiments, as far as they have come within my observation. When the army was about to be disbanded, and the officers to take final leave, perhaps never again to meet, it was natural for men who had accompanied each other through so many scenes of hardship, of difficulty and danger, who, in a variety of instances, must have been rendered mutually dear by those aids and good offices, to which their situations had given occasion, it was natural, I say, for these to seize with fondness any proposition which promised to bring them together again, at certain and regular periods. And this, I take for granted, was the origin and object of this institution: and I have no suspicion that they foresaw, much less intended, those mischiefs which exist perhaps in the forebodings of politicians only. I doubt, however, whether in its execution, it would be found to answer the wishes of those who framed it, and to foster those friendships it was intended to preserve. The members would be brought together at their annual assemblies no longer to encounter a common enemy, but to encounter one another in debate and sentiment. For something, I suppose, is to be done at these meetings, and, however unimportant, it will suffice to produce difference of opinion, contradiction, and irritation. The way to make friends quarrel is to put them in disputation under the public eye. An experience of near twenty years has taught me, that few friendships stand this test, and that public assemblies where every one is free to act and speak, are the most powerful looseners of the bands of private friendship. I think, therefore, that this institution would fail in its principal object, the perpetuation of the personal friendships contracted through the war.
The objections of those who are opposed to the institution shall be briefly sketched. You will readily fill them up. They urge that it is against the Confederation--against the letter of some of our constitutions--against the spirit of all of them;--that the foundation on which all these are built, is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and, particularly, the denial of a pre-eminence by birth; that however, in their present dispositions, citizens might decline accepting honorary instalments[sp.]into the order; but a time, may come, when a change of dispositions would render these flattering, when a well directed distribution of them might draw into the order all the men of talents, of office, and wealth, and in this case, would probably procure an ingraftment into the government; that in this, they will be supported by their foreign members, and the wishes and influence of foreign courts; that experience has shown that the hereditary branches of modern governments are the patrons of privilege and prerogative, and not of the natural rights of the people, whose oppressors they generally are: that besides these evils, which are remote, others may take place more immediately; that a distinction is kept up between the civil and military, which it is for the happiness of both to obliterate; that when the members assemble the, will be proposing to do something, and what that something may be, will depend on actual circumstances; that being an organized body, under habits of subordination, the first obstruction to enterprise will be already surmounted; that the moderation and virtue of a single character have probably prevented this Revolution from being closed as most others have been, by a subversion of that liberty it was intended to establish; that he is not immortal, and his successor, or some of his successors, may be led by false calculation into a less certain road to glory.
What are the sentiments of Congress on this subject, and what line they will pursue, can only be stated, conjecturally. Congress as a body, if left to themselves, will in my opinion say nothing on the subject. They may, however, be forced into a declaration by instructions from some of the States, or by other incidents. Their sentiments, if forced from them, will be unfriendly to the institution. If permitted to pursue their own path, they will check it by side-blows whenever it comes in their way, and in competitions for office, on equal or nearly equal ground, will give silent preferences to those who are not of the fraternity. My reasons for thinking this are, 1. The grounds on which they lately declined the foreign order proposed to be conferred on some of our citizens. 2. The fourth of the fundamental articles of constitution for the new States. I enclose you the report; it has been considered by Congress, recommitted and reformed by a committee, according to sentiments expressed on other parts of it, but the principle referred to, having not been controverted at all, stands in this as in the original report; it is not yet confirmed by Congress. 3. Private conversations on this subject with the members. Since the receipt of your letter I have taken occasion to extend these; not, indeed, to the military members, because, being of the order, delicacy forbade it, but to the others pretty generally; and, among these, I have as yet found but one who is not opposed to the institution, and that with an anguish of mind, though covered under a guarded silence which I have not seen produced by any circumstance before. I arrived at Philadelphia before the separation of the last Congress, and saw there and at Princeton some of its members not now in delegation. Burke's piece happened to come out at that time, which occasioned this institution to be the subject of conversation. I found the same impressions made on them which their successors have received. I hear from other quarters that it is disagreeable, generally, to such citizens as have attended to it, and, therefore, will probably be so to all, when any circumstance shall present it to the notice of all.
This, Sir, is as faithful an account of sentiments and facts as I am able to give you. You know the extent of the circle within which my observations are at present circumscribed, and can estimate how far, as forming a part of the general opinion, it may merit notice, or ought to influence your particular conduct.
It now remains to pay obedience to that part of your letter, which requests sentiments on the most eligible measures to be pursued by the society, at their next meeting. I must be far from pretending to be a judge of what would, in fact, be the most, eligible measures for the society. I can only give you the opinions of those with whom I have conversed, and who, as I have before observed, are unfriendly to it. They lead to these conclusions. 1. If the society proceed according to its institution, it will be better to make no applications to Congress on that subject, or any other, in their associated character. 2. If they should propose to modify it, so as to render it unobjectionable, I think it would not be effected without such a modification as would amount almost to annihilation: for such would it be to part with its inheritability, its organization, and its assemblies. 3. If they shall be disposed to discontinue the whole, it would remain with them to determine whether they would choose it to be done by their own act only, or by a reference of the matter to Congress, which would infallibly produce a recommendation of total discontinuance.
You will be sensible, Sir, that these communications are without reserve. I supposed such to be your wish, and mean them but as materials, with such others as you may collect, for your better judgment to work on. I consider the whole matter as between ourselves alone, having determined to take no active part in this or any thing else, which may lead to altercation, or disturb that quiet and tranquillity of mind, to which I consign the remaining portion of my life. I have been thrown back by events, on a stage where I had never more thought to appear. It is but for a time, however, and as a day-laborer, free to withdraw, or be withdrawn at will. While I remain, I shall pursue in silence the path of right, but in every situation, public or private, I shall be gratified by all occasions of rendering you service, and of convincing you there is no one, to whom your reputation and happiness are dearer than to, Sir,
your most obedient
and most humble servant,
Th: Jefferson.
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Wilson, Duties & rights of Parents, 1791
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"It is the duty of parents to maintain their children decently, and according to their circumstances; to protect them according to the dictates of prudence; and to educate them according to the suggestions of a judicious and zealous regard for their usefulness, their respectability and happiness." --James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791
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It has been a few years since I began this thread, which with some pride I note I began before the advent of the Tea Party.
For a long time the thread quiety bubbled along with a rather humble read-to-post ratio-- somewhere around 14. I see that it is now about 77!-- which given that it had to offset the lower numbers of the early era means our current ratio is somewhere distinctly above that.
This speaks to a hunger for the timeless message of our Founding Fathers who gave us this exceptional republic founded upon the American Creed. It is up to us to keep it such!
The Adventure continues!
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Thomas Paine 1776
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"As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight." --Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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Madison, Federalist 14, 1787 Get this!
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"In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any." --James Madison, Federalist No. 14, 1787
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Jefferson on fascism, 1821
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"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread." --Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821
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Jefferson 1821 on dangers of power concentrating in Washington
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"[W]hen all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Charles Hammond, 1821
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Jefferson 1823
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"[T]he States can best govern our home concerns and the general government our foreign ones. I wish, therefore ... never to see all offices transferred to Washington, where, further withdrawn from the eyes of the people, they may more secretly be bought and sold at market." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Judge William Johnson, 1823
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Hamilton, NY Ratifying Convention 1788
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"When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only by the apparent interest of his county, government would be impracticable. There must be a perpetual accomodation and sacrifice of local advantage to general expediency." --Alexander Hamilton, speech at the New York Ratifying Convention, 1788
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Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation 1789
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"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors." --George Washington, Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1789
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Sorry I've fallen behind here folks. I now play catch up:
"Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." --John Adams, letter to John Taylor, 1814
"The State governments possess inherent advantages, which will ever give them an influence and ascendancy over the National Government, and will for ever preclude the possibility of federal encroachments. That their liberties, indeed, can be subverted by the federal head, is repugnant to every rule of political calculation." --Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, 1788
"The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite." --James Madison, Federalist No. 45
"The operations of the federal government will be most extensive and important in times of war and danger; those of the State governments, in times of peace and security." --James Madison, Federalist No. 45, 1788
"So that the executive and legislative branches of the national government depend upon, and emanate from the states. Every where the state sovereignties are represented; and the national sovereignty, as such, has no representation." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
"The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the feelings, the affections, the municipal institutions, and the internal arrangements of the whole population. They possess, too, the immediate administration of justice in all cases, civil and criminal, which concern the property, personal rights, and peaceful pursuits of their own citizens." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
"Another not unimportant consideration is, that the powers of the general government will be, and indeed must be, principally employed upon external objects, such as war, peace, negotiations with foreign powers, and foreign commerce. In its internal operations it can touch but few objects, except to introduce regulations beneficial to the commerce, intercourse, and other relations, between the states, and to lay taxes for the common good. The powers of the states, on the other hand, extend to all objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, and liberties, and property of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
"The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states. If it be purely local, congress cannot constitutionally appropriate money for the object. But, if the benefit be general, it matters not, whether in point of locality it be in one state, or several; whether it be of large, or of small extent." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
"I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground that 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states or to the people.' To take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn around the powers of Congress, is to take possession of a boundless field of power, not longer susceptible of any definition." --Thomas Jefferson, Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank, 1791
"But ambitious encroachments of the federal government, on the authority of the State governments, would not excite the opposition of a single State, or of a few States only. They would be signals of general alarm. ... But what degree of madness could ever drive the federal government to such an extremity." --James Madison, Federalist No. 46, 1788
"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever." --Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781
"I have lived, sir, a long time; and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?" --Benjamin Franklin, Motion for Prayers in the Constitutional Convention, 1787
"The belief in a God All Powerful wise and good, is so essential to the moral order of the world and to the happiness of man, that arguments which enforce it cannot be drawn from too many sources nor adapted with too much solicitude to the different characters and capacities impressed with it." --James Madison, letter to Frederick Beasley, 1825
"A State, I cheerfully admit, is the noblest work of man: But man, himself, free and honest, is, I speak as to this world, the noblest work of God." --James Wilson, Chisholm v. Georgia, 1793
"It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping GOD in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship." --John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
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Washington: Farewell to the Army 1783
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December 07, 2011, 10:20:22 AM »
"I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the state over which you preside, in his holy protection, that he would incline the hearts of the citizens to cultivate a spirit of subordination and obedience to government, to entertain a brotherly affection and love for one another, for their fellow citizens of the United States at large, and particularly for their brethren who have served in the field, and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all, to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility and pacific temper of mind, which were the characteristicks of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation." --George Washington, circular letter of farewell to the Army, 1783
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
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December 07, 2011, 10:44:45 PM »
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." -- John Adams, 'Argument in Defense of the Soldiers in the Boston Massacre Trials', December 1770.
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Washington to a Jewish congregation 1790
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December 10, 2011, 07:00:21 AM »
"May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy." --George Washington, letter to the Hebrew Congregation in Newport, 1790
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Alexander Hamilton 1794
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December 13, 2011, 09:47:51 AM »
"The instrument by which [government] must act are either the AUTHORITY of the laws or FORCE. If the first be destroyed, the last must be substituted; and where this becomes the ordinary instrument of government there is an end to liberty!" --Alexander Hamilton, Tully, No. 3, 1794
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T. Paine, Common Sense 1776
Reply #1021 on:
December 14, 2011, 07:55:34 AM »
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer." --Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
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Madison, Federalist 51, 1788
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December 16, 2011, 10:19:21 AM »
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself." --James Madison, Federalist No. 51, 1788
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Three Madison, one Jefferson
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December 20, 2011, 11:33:40 AM »
"Stability in government is essential to national character and to the advantages annexed to it, as well as to that repose and confidence in the minds of the people, which are among the chief blessings of civil society." --James Madison, Federalist No. 37, 1788
"The great desideratum in Government is, so to modify the sovereignty as that it may be sufficiently neutral between different parts of the Society to controul one part from invading the rights of another, and at the same time sufficiently controuled itself, from setting up an interest adverse to that of the entire Society." --James Madison, letter to Thomas Jefferson, 1787
"[A] wise and frugal government ... shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." --Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801
"It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune. This necessity however exists; and the problem to be solved is, not what form of Government is perfect, but which of the forms is least imperfect." --James Madison, 1833
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
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December 26, 2011, 09:21:25 PM »
"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever." --Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 18, 1781
"As our president bears no resemblance to a king so we shall see the Senate has no similitude to nobles. First, not being hereditary, their collective knowledge, wisdom, and virtue are not precarious. For by these qualities alone are they to obtain their offices, and they will have none of the peculiar qualities and vices of those men who possess power merely because their father held it before them." --Tench Coxe, An American Citizen, No. 2, 1787
"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, 1787
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to The Republican Citizens of Washington County, Maryland, 1809
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
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December 27, 2011, 07:56:18 AM »
"How prone all human institutions have been to decay; how subject the best-formed and most wisely organized governments have been to lose their check and totally dissolve; how difficult it has been for mankind, in all ages and countries, to preserve their dearest rights and best privileges, impelled as it were by an irresistible fate of despotism." --James Monroe, speech in the Virginia Ratifying Convention, 1788
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Franklin, 1730
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December 30, 2011, 08:18:38 AM »
"That wise men have in all ages thought government necessary for the good of mankind; and, that wise governments have always thought religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the ministers of it, paying them the highest public honours, that their doctrines might thereby meet with the greater respect among the common people." --Benjamin Franklin, On that Odd Letter of the Drum, 1730
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Jefferson to Adams 1813; Washington 1776
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January 02, 2012, 06:00:07 AM »
"The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it would have been inconsistent in creation to have formed man for the social state, and not to have provided virtue and wisdom enough to manage the concerns of the society. May we not even say that that form of government is the best which provides the most - for a pure selection of these natural aristoi into the offices of government?" --Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 1813
"To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad." --George Washington, letter to John Augustine Washington, 1776
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
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January 05, 2012, 06:22:42 AM »
"The freedom and happiness of man ... [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Thaddeus Kosciusko, 1810
"A good government implies two things; first, fidelity to the objects of the government; secondly, a knowledge of the means, by which those objects can be best attained." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
"The pyramid of government-and a republican government may well receive that beautiful and solid form-should be raised to a dignified altitude: but its foundations must, of consequence, be broad, and strong, and deep. The authority, the interests, and the affections of the people at large are the only foundation, on which a superstructure proposed to be at once durable and magnificent, can be rationally erected." --James Wilson
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
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January 06, 2012, 06:59:43 AM »
"This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 1796
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
Reply #1030 on:
January 08, 2012, 10:43:21 AM »
While Jefferson referred to "Nature's God" in the Declaration of Independence, he preferred to keep his personal beliefs to himself, a reticence that lined up with his philosophy of individual freedom and religious tolerance. In "Notes," he put it this way:
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
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Prescient understatement from Madison, Federalist 49, 1788
Reply #1031 on:
January 10, 2012, 08:13:51 AM »
"It may be considered as an objection inherent in the principle, that as every appeal to the people would carry an implication of some defect in the government, frequent appeals would in great measure deprive the government of that veneration which time bestows on every thing, and without which perhaps the wisest and freest governments would not possess the requisite stability." --James Madison, Federalist No. 49, 1788
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J. Adams, 1776
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January 11, 2012, 11:03:51 AM »
"If there is a form of government, then, whose principle and foundation is virtue, will not every sober man acknowledge it better calculated to promote the general happiness than any other form?" --John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
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John Adams, 1776
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January 12, 2012, 11:08:19 AM »
"Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor, or private interest of any one man, family, or class of men; therefore, the people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government; and to reform, alter, or totally change the same, when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it." --John Adams, Thoughts on Government, 1776
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
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January 14, 2012, 10:51:29 PM »
Quote from: prentice crawford on January 14, 2012, 05:48:40 PM
I wonder if the Founding Fathers, intended us to report to the government how often we exercised any of our rights? A Federal Judge has ruled that the government can force gun store owners to report anyone that buys more than one gun at a time to them. So does this mean that on a whim of government intrusion into the lives of law abiding citizens, that they can now require us to fill out a form and turn it in to them anytime we go to church more than once a week, or say something negative about the government more than twice in the same day? If it applies to the Second Amendment it applies to all of them.
We the People, need to wake up and understand that the attacks on the Second Amendment, are attacks on all of our rights protected by the Constitution.
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Re: Government form required for free speech!
Reply #1035 on:
January 14, 2012, 11:49:16 PM »
I wonder if the Founding Fathers, intended us to report to the government how often we exercised any of our rights? A Federal Judge has ruled that the government can force gun store owners to report anyone that buys more than one gun at a time to them. So does this mean that on a whim of government intrusion into the lives of law abiding citizens, that they can now require us to fill out a form and turn it in to them anytime we go to church more than once a week, or say something negative about the government more than twice in the same day? If it applies to the Second Amendment it applies to all of them.
We the People, need to wake up and understand that the attacks on the Second Amendment, are attacks on all of our rights protected by the Constitution.
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
Reply #1036 on:
January 15, 2012, 12:39:10 AM »
Please take this to the Issues in the American Creed/Constitutional Law thread.
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Jefferson 1786
Reply #1037 on:
January 17, 2012, 08:41:30 AM »
"If our country, when pressed with wrongs at the point of the bayonet, had been
governed by its heads instead of its hearts, where should we have been now? Hanging
on a gallows as high as Haman's." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Maria Cosway, 1786
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Ten entries
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January 26, 2012, 08:22:52 AM »
"Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
"How much more do they deserve our reverence and praise, whose lives are devoted to the formation of institutions, which, when they and their children are mingled in the common dust, may continue to cherish the principles and the practice of liberty in perpetual freshness and vigour." --Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
"The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind." --Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, No. 5, 1778
"Wisely, therefore, do they consider union and a good national government as necessary to put and keep them in such a situation as, instead of inviting war, will tend to repress and discourage it. That situation consists in the best possible state of defense, and necessarily depends on the government, the arms, and the resources of the country." --John Jay, Federalist No. 4
"The diversity in the faculties of men from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government." --James Madison, Federalist No. 10, 1787
t is the reason alone, of the public, that ought to control and regulate the government." --James Madison, Federalist No. 49, 1788
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse." --James Madison, speech in the Virginia constitutional convention, 1829
"History by apprising [citizens] of the past will enable them to judge of the future; it will avail them of the experience of other times and other nations; it will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men; it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views." --Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
"Every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country." --Noah Webster, On the Education of Youth in America, 1788
"Without wishing to damp the ardor of curiosity or influence the freedom of inquiry, I will hazard a prediction that, after the most industrious and impartial researchers, the longest liver of you all will find no principles, institutions or systems of education more fit in general to be transmitted to your posterity than those you have received from your ancestors." --John Adams, letter to the young men of the Philadelphia, 1798
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
Reply #1039 on:
January 31, 2012, 08:16:35 AM »
"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, 1817
"History affords us many instances of the ruin of states, by the prosecution of measures ill suited to the temper and genius of their people. The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed; whence a total separation of affections, interests, political obligations, and all manner of connections, by which the whole state is weakened." --Benjamin Franklin, Emblematical Representations
"History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions, how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable: The advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth." --Benjamin Franklin, Proposals Relating to the Education of Youth in Pennsylvania, 1749
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Good site on Ben Franklin
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February 01, 2012, 09:49:34 AM »
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Madison, Federalist 57, 1788
Reply #1041 on:
February 01, 2012, 09:52:39 AM »
"If it be asked what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer, the genius of the whole system, the nature of just and constitutional laws, and above all the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America, a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it." --James Madison, Federalist No. 57, 1788
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
Reply #1042 on:
February 07, 2012, 09:10:08 AM »
Thomas Jefferson, in a 1789 letter to James Madison, once said that every constitution naturally expires at the end of 19 years because the earth belongs always to the living generation.
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Re: The American Creed: Our Founding Fathers:
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February 07, 2012, 11:56:02 AM »
Well, that's not what was passed.
"There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism." --Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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Madison, Federalist 51
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February 08, 2012, 08:24:33 AM »
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?" --James Madison, Federalist No. 51, 1788
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Madison, Federalist 55, 1788
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February 14, 2012, 09:15:22 AM »
"As there is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust: So there are other qualities in human nature, which justify a certain portion of esteem and confidence. Republican government presupposes the existence of these qualities in a higher degree than any other form. Were the pictures which have been drawn by the political jealousy of some among us, faithful likenesses of the human character, the inference would be that there is not sufficient virtue among men for self-government; and that nothing less than the chains of despotism can restrain them from destroying and devouring one another." --James Madison, Federalist No. 55, 1788
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Madison, Federalist 52, 1788
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February 15, 2012, 10:07:17 AM »
"In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature." --James Madison, Federalist No. 52, 1788
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Jefferson, letter to Hugh White 1801
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February 16, 2012, 09:13:12 AM »
"Born in other countries, yet believing you could be happy in this, our laws acknowledge, as they should do, your right to join us in society, conforming, as I doubt not you will do, to our established rules. That these rules shall be as equal as prudential considerations will admit, will certainly be the aim of our legislatures, general and particular." --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Hugh White, 1801
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Franklin: Immigration 1784
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February 17, 2012, 09:03:08 AM »
"Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old inhabitants are not jealous of them; the laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the patronage of great men; and every one will enjoy securely the profits of his industry. But if he does not bring a fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live." --Benjamin Franklin, Those Who Would Remove to America, 1784
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Washington's Birthday
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February 20, 2012, 10:33:53 AM »
"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness." --George Washington
"The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respectable stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges, if by decency and propriety of conduct they appear to merit the enjoyment." --George Washington, Address to the Members of the Volunteer Association of Ireland, 1783
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