24 JAN 2015 by ideonexus
TODO: Quote from the Federalist Papers
A man must be far gone in Utopian speculations who can seriously doubt that, if these States should either be wholly disunited, or only united in partial confederacies, the subdivisions into which they might be thrown would have frequent and violent contests with each other. To presume a want of motives for such contests as an argument against their existence, would be to forget that men are ambitious, vindictive and rapacious. To look for a continuation of harmony between a number of indepen...Folksonomies: todo
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notesThe Federalist Papers, though written in haste and in the context of a local political battle, gave a lasting intellectual legitimacy to the idea of federal government. They still speak to mankind today with undiminished force, warning us {204} of the disasters to which the competition of local sovereignties can lead us.
18 MAY 2011 by ideonexus
The Founding Fathers were Scientists
Declaration of Independence puts it - 'the laws of nature and of
nature's GOD'. Dr Benjamin Franklin was revered in Europe and
America as the founder of the new field of electrical physics. At
the Constitutional Convention of 1789 John Adams repeatedly
appealed to the analogy of mechanical balance in machines;
others to William Harvey's discovery of the circulation of the
blood. Late in life Adams wrote, 'All mankind are chemists from
their cradles to their graves . . . The Material Universe ... 1 notes
notesScholars of the enlightenment.
