Part 2 of a Discussion of Peter Foster’s Why We Bite the Invisible Hand Chapter 9 “The Invisible Metaphor” In the last blog, we examined the meaning of the Invisible Hand metaphor. Now we want to look at several who challenged its ability. Adam Darwin Foster discusses a lecture by…
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1913
The Seventeenth Amendment Shifted Our Republic Towards Democracy
A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 3 “World-Shifting Event #2: The Seventeenth Amendment” In this chapter we are introduced to the second major change to the U.S. Constitution noted by Oliver DeMille, the Seventeenth Amendment beginning the direct election of US senators. This may surprise many that senators have not always been elected…
1913
It All Went Wrong in 1913
A Discussion of Oliver DeMille’s 1913 Chapter 1 “The Turning Point of Freedom” We know we have a much larger federal government than was originally designed by the framers of the U.S. Constitution, but how did that happen? Is it a natural result of growth in population or technology? Oliver DeMille offers…