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James Irwin, another astronaut who walked on the moon, said, ‘Jesus walking on the earth is more important than man walking on the moon.

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Keep your life free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have... —The Holy Bible, Hebrews 13:5 (CSB)

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From the Rothbardian lens, what began as a battle between titans became a cabal during World War II. As Rothbard notes, that conflict could “be considered, from one point of view, as a coalition war: the Morgans got their war in Europe, the Rockefellers theirs in Asia.”

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, we gain new details and insights into Rothbard’s fundamental position on the new constitution of 1787: it was conservative, oligarchic, counterrevolutionary, and thoroughly opposed to the “spirit of ‘76.”

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In describing the policy of the war years he wrote that “in those stormy times one had to agree that all power should emanate only from the people, that everything was to its supreme will, and that the magistrates were merely its servant” However, after the war had ended, “the class of men known as gentlemen” began, according to Otto, to “lay claim to ruling—which the people did not wish to agree to ... Almost all of them fear the efforts of the people to strip them of the possessions and moreover they are creditors and consequently have an interest in strengthening the Government and ensuring the laws are executed.”

Thus the adoption of the Constitution was dictated by the desire of the upper-middle class and the landed aristocracy to strengthen their power. In an overall appraisal of it as a political document one must admit that for its time it was an advanced constitution, especially after the adoption of the Bill of Rights , which must also be viewed as particular stage in the class struggle.

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havior of democracy and state monopoly. Classical liberal philosophy hoped that by limiting the size of government; by having constitutional rules; and through democratic representation they could restrain the monster. The Alberta experience is proof that these hopes were misplaced. There is no perfecting a Canadian or American style of federalism in Alberta because no state can be permanently restrained. Secession is the right step. But it’s only a piece of the puzzle. Pursue decentralization. Build private alternatives in every sphere of the public domain. The liberal experiment in Canada has ru

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tion, and secession replace elections.

So, how do we get there? All public assets should be privatized by distributing shares to the people who funded them and rightfully own them – the taxpayers. Parallel institutions in security, adjudication, money, and mutual aid need to be established to reduce dependency on the central state. Perhaps most importantly, decisions about taxation and regulation should only take place at the very local level and only property owners and net tax contributors should be allowed to participate in those decisions being made – the ones who own the territory and the ones who fund the programs. Non-cooperation weakens the central state. Secession increases exit opportunities and competitive pressure. The long-term goal is the complete replacement of state monopoly. Democracy is not reformed; it is progressively displaced by property-based decision making. The goal is to create liberated territory rather than capture the existing political apparatus.

Alberta’s grievances – the extraction

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a state monopoly, which can’t be done.

Forget the constitution. No public constitution stands above private agreements. Legitimate rules come from contracts between consenting individuals and associations. When no agency for arbitration holds a compulsory monopoly, every adjudicator remains subject to competitive and reputational discipline. Even a highly restrictive constitution imposes general rules from above where rules would otherwise come from voluntary agreements, below, bottom-up, the true meaning of grassroots. Contract replaces constitution, arbitration replaces state courts, exit, competition, and secession replace elections.

So, how do we get there? All public as

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Liberals did not treat democracy as an end in itself or as a channel of unlimited authority. They believed it was an imperfect instrument for enforcing the Lockean bargain: that the state remains legitimate so long as it protects people’s rights and retains their consent.

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Anything beyond this was outside of Ottawa’s mandate. Canada was not created to redistribute wealth or regulate industry. The justification for confederation was to make private property and voluntary co-operation more secure.

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established, well-connected companies.

In other words, the heads of big companies pushing for more government regulation of their industry is not some strange deviation from the status quo; it is an embodiment of it. If they truly believed that the technology they were working on would kill all humans in the next three years, they would be acting differently. Like so many of their predecessors, the top AI CEOs are trying to scare us into supporting policies designed to protect them from competition. We need to stop falling for it.

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blic, financially and physically safe.

What we are seeing today with this sudden consensus among the big AI CEOs that they need to be regulated is simply an attempt by the big firms in a young industry to establish the kind of government-enabled cartel that so many other industries enjoy.

There is not complete agreement yet ab

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The Framers and our American ancestors were right not to include an emergency exception in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Too bad modern-day Americans have permitted their federal officials to get away with using “emergencies” to wield and exercise unconstitutional powers. It’s one of the principal ways the American people have lost their liberty at the hands of their own government.

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mergency” powers were never rescinded.

It’s important to recognize that the “emergency” can come in various forms. Recall the economic “emergency” of the Great Depression. President Roosevelt used that “emergency” to nationalize gold, impose a paper-money system on the American people, convert America’s economic system to a welfare state, and establish a government-managed, government-controlled, and government-regulated economic system. All of this was done without even the semblance of a constitutional amendment.

There was the post-World War II “emerg

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After the 9/11 attacks, U.S. officials used the “emergency” to wield and exercise extraordinary totalitarian-like powers. This was reflected by such totalitarian-like measures as the USA PATRIOT Act, warrantless telecommunications surveillance, torture, indefinite detention, assassination, the TSA takeover of the airports, and the undeclared wars of aggression against Afghanistan and Iraq.

Of course, that isn’t the only time U.

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