By the Author of WANTED: Eight Critical Skills You Need To Succeed
In Federalist Paper #25, The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered, is all about the military – the case for a standing army under the control of the Federal government. Hamilton’s primary goal in this paper is to convince his New York audience of the necessity of granting the national legislature authority to raise and […]
Read More…An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people,” is often attributed as a quote by Thomas Jefferson. In reality, there is no known printed source to attribute that quote to Jefferson, but it is certainly an accurate paraphrase of his thinking. Another way to describe his views is that critical to […]
Read More…Alexander Hamilton addresses the military issue in Essay #24, The Powers Necessary to the Common Defense Further Considered. This is the first in a series of papers that seek to address one of the most compelling criticisms of the proposed constitution: that it allowed for the creation of powerful standing armies which would constitute a fundamental threat […]
Read More…Telling the “Big Lie” isn’t new. Not at all. It’s a combination of the “Information” and “Communications” skill to affect the “Production” skill and make something happen that is based on false information. It’s effective for those people who are too lazy or are incapable of ferreting out the truth of a matter – and […]
Read More…The “Truth of the Matter” As described in post #2 of this series, any logical argument that will lead valid results depends upon the truth and validity of the information upon which the hypothesis is based. In other words, for a conclusion to be true and valid, the information that forms the hypothesis must be […]
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