Comments on: Madison’s Folly http://c4ss.org/content/905 building awareness of the market anarchist alternative Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:43:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: wbertrand http://c4ss.org/content/905/comment-page-1#comment-802 wbertrand Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:31:06 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=905#comment-802 Hear, hear, Thomas. We discussed your fine piece recently, on Complete Liberty Podcast episode 82. http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=523974 Cheers, Wes Hear, hear, Thomas. We discussed your fine piece recently, on Complete Liberty Podcast episode 82.
http://completeliberty.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=523974

Cheers,
Wes

]]> By: planetaryjim http://c4ss.org/content/905/comment-page-1#comment-715 planetaryjim Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:32:43 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=905#comment-715 This weekend, I was handing out bills of rights to visitors to the county fair. I got to re-read the original text. There is still one proposed amendment that hasn't been ratified. It is actually the first article in the original bill. It proposes to have at least one congress critter for every fifty thousand population. Right now there are about 660,000 people for every critter. I believe it would work out to 6,100 congress critters if that were ratified. There is no expiration on the amendments, and the eleventh of the twelve proposed was ratified in 1992 or so, as I recall. Would 6,100 members of congress be able to get anything done? Would a few dozen of them represent libertarians? I've no idea. I do know that the amendment requiring an election to intervene before any raise in congressional pay can take effect has had zero impact on Congress. I think McCain Feingold prevents incumbents, even complete scuzz bags like Arlen Specter, from being challenged effectively. But, really, it is about a stateless society that I wonder most. How to get there from here, etc. This weekend, I was handing out bills of rights to visitors to the county fair. I got to re-read the original text. There is still one proposed amendment that hasn’t been ratified. It is actually the first article in the original bill.

It proposes to have at least one congress critter for every fifty thousand population. Right now there are about 660,000 people for every critter. I believe it would work out to 6,100 congress critters if that were ratified. There is no expiration on the amendments, and the eleventh of the twelve proposed was ratified in 1992 or so, as I recall.

Would 6,100 members of congress be able to get anything done? Would a few dozen of them represent libertarians? I’ve no idea.

I do know that the amendment requiring an election to intervene before any raise in congressional pay can take effect has had zero impact on Congress. I think McCain Feingold prevents incumbents, even complete scuzz bags like Arlen Specter, from being challenged effectively.

But, really, it is about a stateless society that I wonder most. How to get there from here, etc.

]]> By: Michael Bindner http://c4ss.org/content/905/comment-page-1#comment-713 Michael Bindner Wed, 12 Aug 2009 14:43:08 +0000 http://c4ss.org/?p=905#comment-713 Madison also put forward in the Bill of Rights a proposed article (killed by the Senate) to assure the freedoms of speech, press and conscience at the state levels. This was a precursor to the 14th Amendment and would have been effective in curtailing the Slave Power in the South. As it was, the future Confederate states became planter tyrannies whenever abolition was suggested. Madison also put forward in the Bill of Rights a proposed article (killed by the Senate) to assure the freedoms of speech, press and conscience at the state levels. This was a precursor to the 14th Amendment and would have been effective in curtailing the Slave Power in the South. As it was, the future Confederate states became planter tyrannies whenever abolition was suggested.

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