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** FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2020
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No man on earth has more implicit confidence than myself in the integrity and discretion of [the confidential officers of the government, who are the choice of the people themselves]... But is confidence or discretion, or is strict limit, the principle of our Constitution?
– Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Jedidiah Morse [1822]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 27, 2020
A Virtue of the 14th Amendment ([link removed])
When the Constitution called the federal government into existence, it set forth its limited, enumerated powers. It was different, however, with respect to state governments. Except for a few express restrictions on their powers enumerated in the Constitution, the states could continue exercising whatever powers they wished against people within the state. That concept of state sovereignty was confirmed when ...
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American Conservative
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