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		<title>Why the Electoral College Works and Why the &#8220;National Popular Vote&#8221; Movement is a Sham</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suppose it should come as no surprise given their love of centralized control, that many liberals have been recently calling for a national, popular election for president rather than the current Electoral College system.  But this recent trend is a great example of how little people understand the Constitution as well as how little [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.detocqueville.us/2010/08/why-the-electoral-college-works/</link>
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		<title>Alexander Hamilton on the Supremacy Clause</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Connected with my recent discussion of the States relationship to the federal government (specifically the 10th Amendment) is this quote from The Federalist No. 33, by Alexander Hamilton.  It&#8217;s rather long, so I&#8217;ll break it up and discuss each part individually: If a number of political societies enter into a larger political society, the laws which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.detocqueville.us/2010/04/alexander-hamilton-on-the-supremacy-clause/</link>
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		<title>The 10th Amendment &#8211; Initial Thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a post I originally wrote for Rosencrantz &#38; Guildenstern, Ltd. I believe that this issue has a lot more depth to it, so this represents my initial thoughts on the issue, a kind of preliminary outline, if you will. From March 31, 2010: Introduction http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2010/03/29/chris-matthews-gets-schooled-tea-partier As I mentioned in the previous post, this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.detocqueville.us/2010/04/the-10th-amendment-initial-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>Alexander Hamilton on &#8220;Necessary and Proper&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was going through The Federalist (which I think should be required reading for anyone in government) in looking at the the &#8220;necessary and proper&#8221; clause as well as the 10th Amendment and found this wonderful quote from The Federalist No. 33, composed by Alexander Hamilton in 1788: If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.detocqueville.us/2010/04/alexander-hamilton-on-necessary-and-proper/</link>
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		<title>The Left and Race/Gender Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2010/03/29/chris-matthews-gets-schooled-tea-partier The above exchange, from Chris Matthews&#8217;s Hardball, has brought two topics to mind, both of which I will cover in different posts. The first is the Left&#8217;s use of race and gender as a means to steer debate away from the issues and instead instigate ad hominim attacks on their opponents.  Now, I want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.detocqueville.us/2010/04/the-left-and-racegender-politics/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on NY-23</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The outcome of the race in New York&#8217;s 23rd district among Bill Owens, Doug Hoffman, and Dede Scozzafava is definitely disappointing, at least in the sense of the fact that there&#8217;s one more Democrat in Congress.  However, I think the race does have some interesting implications for national politics: not as a referendum on President [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.detocqueville.us/2009/11/thoughts-on-ny-23/</link>
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		<title>Why Newt Gingrich is Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich is wrong in supporting Dede Scozzafava in the New York Congressional district 23 race. Of course, a lot of my fellow conservatives have been saying this for a while, so that might seem kind of obvious. And certainly there are some very obvious reasons why conservatives should oppose Scozzafava, as so many of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.detocqueville.us/2009/10/why-newt-gingrich-is-wrong/</link>
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		<title>Astroturfing and Grassroots</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is this to what the Dem operative was referring? The above article, by Dana Loesch, discusses progressive, Democrat groups planning to start some &#8220;grassroots&#8221; demonstrations to show support for the Democrat health-care reforms; the article, as is often the case in this type of article, accuses the Democrat group of &#8220;astroturfing,&#8221; or creating a fake grassroots [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.detocqueville.us/2009/09/astroturfing-and-grassroots/</link>
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		<title>Hypocrisy in Politics (Who&#8217;s Turn Now?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current debate over health-care reform has brought out the hypocrisy of the Left in a very visible way. Their response to protests (most of which are focused on the House&#8217;s health-care bill, HR 3200) is quite telling. If the protesters were to be anti-war or anti-Bush, they would be praised for their courage and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.detocqueville.us/2009/08/hypocrisy-in-politics-whos-turn-now/</link>
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		<title>Introductory Chapter &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democracy in America begins with an introductory chapter by de Tocqueville in which he discusses the progression of Western society toward democratic government.  The focus of this progression is, for de Tocqueville, the levelling of social gradients.  In the opening sentence, he states: Amongst the novel objects that attracted my attention during my stay in [...]]]></description>
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