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Tereza Coraggio's avatar

I don't know how you do it, Nefahotep. This is years of work distilled into diagrams. I feel like I'm getting it a little bit more with each article. But I need a Sabbatean sabbatical so I can read all of yours, Frances, Will. And try to put something coherent out on it, from 3000 ft. But all three of you have jam-packed so much in, I can't imagine how I'd summarize anything. Whew! Thanks for this.

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Most interesting. It is important to note, however, that the US constitution shows evidence of being the work of parasites and instead of liberating the masses was a huge link in the chain around our necks. It's pretty clear that it was designed from the start to ensure freedom for the moneyed classes only. Please note that 4/5 of the promulgators were money lenders.

This should come as little surprise because,

"The Constitution looked fairly good on paper, but it was not a popular document; people were suspicious of it, and suspicious of the enabling legislation that was being erected upon it. There was some ground for this. The Constitution had been laid down under unacceptable auspices; its history had been that of a coup d'état.

It had been drafted, in the first place, by men representing special economic interests. Four-fifths of them were public creditors, one-third were land speculators, and one-fifth represented interests in shipping, manufacturing, and merchandising. Most of them were lawyers. Not one of them represented the interest of production — Vilescit origine tali.

Albert Jay Nock, Liberty vs. the Constitution: The Early Struggle

Liberty vs. the Constitution: The Early Struggle | Mises Institute

https://mises.org/library/liberty-vs-constitution-early-struggle

In other words, the anti-federalists were, for the most part, correct. Prescient, too.

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