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The avarice of Galerius [260-311 A.D.], or perhaps the exigencies of the state, had induced him to make a very strict and rigorous inquisition into the property of his subjects, for the purpose of a general taxation, both on their lands and on their persons. A very minute survey appears to have been taken of their real estates; and wherever there was the slightest suspicion of concealment, torture was very freely employed to obtain a sincere declaration of their personal wealth.
-- Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [1776]


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October 21, 2020
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The Democrats are threatening to enact a court-packing law if Amy Comey Barrett, President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court to replace Ruth Bader Ginsberg, receives Senate confirmation. The Democrats feel that Joe Biden, should he win the November 5 election, should name Ginsberg’s replacement. The court-packing law would add additional justices onto the Supreme Court, all of whom would ...
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