In his series of essays, Brutus repeatedly warned about the dangers of centralized power, predicting that the proposed government would end up exercising “infinite” and “incomprehensible” power.
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But with the power to do good comes the power to do evil. Nobody can be trusted with that kind of power.
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As the antifederalist write Brutus wrote, a national debt that can never be discharged is "a calamity."
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Thousands of executive branch employees stand to gain financially on actions of the agency they work at? Say it ain’t so! But it is. And we were warned this would happen too.
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When government people say they want to "protect you," they usually mean they want to control you.
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During the debates over ratification of the Constitution, Anti-Federalists repeatedly warned about the dangers of too much power. One of their prominent arguments centered around the maxim that once power expands, people with power never seem to voluntarily give it back.
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From the beginning, the federal taxing power evoked strong opposition from Anti-Federalists. They warned it would lead to infinite and incomprehensible power - and a tyranny potentially worse than they endured under the British.
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Brutus called a national debt "exceeding their ability ever to discharge” a calamity. But he was far from alone.
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In his 9th essay, Brutus continues his warning that standing armies are always “dangerous to the liberties of a people.” Here, he responds to criticisms of this position by Noah Webster and Alexander Hamilton.
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In his 8th essay, Brutus looks at the combined powers to borrow money, to lay and collect taxes, and to raise and support armies as a trifecta that would lead to the destruction of liberty.
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