by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 29, 2015 | The Legislature
Parties encourage their members to abandon principle in favor of faction. For example, in America the Republican Party is supposed to be the party of low taxes, respect for property and fiscal restraint, yet during the period 2003–2005, when they controlled both the...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 29, 2015 | The Legislature
By parliaments therefore liberty is preserved; and whoever has the honour to sit in those assemblies, accepts of a most sacred and important trust; to the discharge of which all his vigilance, all his application, all his virtue, and all his faculties, are necessary;...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
Public servants, who exist to protect the people from violation of their rights, should not themselves behave like thugs. Instead they should treat the general public the way they would want their own family to be treated. Thus, government officers should not: Kick in...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
Public servants should not belong to or actively support a political party. This is the opposite of the situation in a communist or fascist country where all positions of power are reserved for members of the ruling political party. This principle is given force in...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 28, 2015 | The Bureaucracy
It should be remembered as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also; in theory only at first while the spirit of the people is up, but in practice as fast as that relaxes. —Thomas Jefferson. Letter...
