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An important question for early Americans was whether it is possible to establish a government that protects the persons, liberty, and property rights of individuals while preventing those afflicted with the lust to dominate others from getting their way. What was their conclusion?
- The principle of federalism: keep political power decentralized, held at the local-most level possible.
- Hang people who seek to acquire power over others.
- Establish public schools for the purpose of teaching the young the rudiments of political friendship and respect for the rights of others.
- Do not create a government with coercive power, but rather do everything in society, including security, through private agreements.
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In general, how does this focus on keeping power decentralized work?
- We must understand that the tree of liberty occasionally must be watered with the blood of patriots.
- The decentralization of power works when we maintain the principles of federalism, first, and also constitutionalism and republicanism. The principle of republicanism requires citizens to be vigilant to identify and active to turn back all efforts by government to grow its power, and this is how the principle of constitutionalism is enforced. But those with the lust to dominate others will observe no bounds in their drive for power, including violence and killing, and so we must be ready and able to fight for our freedom.
- Frequent, transparent, and fair elections.
- By following Thomas Jefferson’s recommendation to adopt constitutions that expire every nineteen years (or every generation) so that each generation can sweep aside the government of their forebears and establish the government they want.
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Does enforcing the principles of federalism, constitutionalism, and republicanism, which is the work of citizenship in a free society, require the use of nullification of unconstitutional usurpations of power and even secession when nothing else works?
- No. Secession is treason.
- No. While secession may not be treason, it is the violation of an agreement.
- Yes, obviously.
- Yes, but nullification and even secession have to be negotiated among the states.
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The form of government called the state developed in Europe largely in the 16th and 17th centuries. While there have been coercive empires in history, none was a state in the modern sense. What is the definition of the modern national state?
- An agency of coercive power in order to compel people within a given territory to do what is good for them.
- An agency of coercive power having a monopoly on the use of force within a specified territory, the right to command and to be obeyed by the people in that territory, and the right to extract its revenues from those people.
- The organization of military power administered for the defense of the nation.
- Not so. The state has always existed. Consider the Greek city-state.
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