Cato’s Letters – CLibertyC

The Danger of Factions: Nothing New Under the Sun

Post author:Tenth Amendment Center
Post published:September 20, 2021
Post category:History Network Archives Sovereignty Tenth Amendment Center

A “frightful despotism,” would be the result of an “alternate domination of one faction over another,” warned George Washington. He was joined - with similar warnings - by Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Jefferson and many others. But this opposition to factions didn’t start with the founding generation at all.

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A Warning on Factions: From Cato to Washington

Post author:Tenth Amendment Center
Post published:September 19, 2021
Post category:Network Archives Sovereignty Tenth Amendment Center

In his farewell address of Sept 19, 1796 George Washington warned about the dangers of political factions.

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5 Founders on the Horrors and Evils of War

Post author:Tenth Amendment Center
Post published:August 27, 2021
Post category:Network Archives Sovereignty Tenth Amendment Center

Thomas Paine, John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison - in their own words - on the evils of war. Not on the structure of war powers under the Constitution, but as a deeper, philosophical foundation.

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