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| Introduction | Independent voter who believes true peace greatly depends on people's individual right to keep and bear arms plus having a strong national defense. Absent these options and capabilities, malevolence and madness rule. As per political professors David Corbin & Matthew Parks, “The great majority of Hamilton and Madison’s fifty-six uses of the word ‘dangerous’ in The Federalist appear in the context of the threat that power misconstrued and/or misapplied poses to political liberty. Progressivism has encouraged just such a danger, not only in its subordination of individual liberty to its expansive, paternalistic social agenda, but in undermining the boundaries between the three branches of the federal government and denying the reality of fixed constitutional limits to federal governmental power.” The federalist.com, 2015 |
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| Interests | As a Texan-American, I strongly adhere to our constitutional republic with its separation of powers between central government and the respective states. The prior being limited to national defense, foreign policy, interstate commerce and (by historical necessity) the preservation of unalienable individual rights. The latter overseeing all domestic affairs. According to the anti-federalist writer Brutus, "... the authority to lay and collect taxes is the most important of any power that can be granted ... it is the means of protection, security, and defence, in a good government, and the great engine of oppression and tyranny in a bad one." Good government was said to be one of separate powers between the states and central government, wherein each taxes according to their designated function. For this reason, employ Article V to repeal the centralist power grabbing 16th and 17th amendments, (Social Security and Medicare by attrition), and "Obamacare" as these items subvert our country's foundational design of federalism. |
| Favorite Movies | Glory by director Edward Zwick, Tate Taylor's The Help, Stanley Kramer's High Noon starring Gary Cooper, and The Outlaw Josey Wales - based on the novel Gone to Texas. Let the questionable author of this novel be balanced by a respected patriot and orator, Frederick Douglas, who stated on August 3, 1857 "Find out just what any people will quietly submit to, and you have ... the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." Favorite old radio program: "Around Dodge City and the territories out west, there's just one way to handle the killers and spoilers, and that's with the U.S. Marshall and the smell of Gunsmoke". |
| Favorite Music | A favored song: The Pistol, composed by Hal Bynum, Don Wayne, and B. Tubb, as performed by Sheriff Jim Wilson. |
| Favorite Books | The anti-federalist papers and the constitutional convention debates, 1986, edited by R. Ketcham. The origins of the necessary and proper clause, 2010, G. Lawson, et al. |
What part of limited government do progressives not understand?