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A Degeneracy of Morals and Manners

James Madison wrote about the “degeneracy of morals and manners” that happens when a country engages in war.

He was talking about the war profiteering and the accompanying fraud, but there is a far more sinister degeneration of morals that happens during war.

For Further Reading

James Madison on War as a Great Threat to Liberty

The Government Spent Over $300 Million a Day for 20 Years on Unconstitutional Afghanistan War

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