by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 30, 2015 | The Legislature
Judges … should not be dependent upon any man or body of men. To these ends they should hold estates for life in their offices, or, in other words, their commissions should be during good behavior, and their salaries ascertained and established by law. —John Adams....
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 30, 2015 | The Legislature
There already exist some excellent constitutional checks and balances that slow legislatures down. These include the executive veto, limited sitting days, multiple readings and bicameral legislatures. However, as the career of former California governor Gray Davis...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 30, 2015 | The Legislature
The relationship between self-discipline and success Is it not obvious that this relationship between discipline and success holds good nationally? Are not nations made of men; and are not men subject to the same laws of modification in their adult years as in their...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 30, 2015 | The Legislature
People will always be laid off or have their businesses go bankrupt or lose their investments. These unpleasant experiences are necessary to motivate people to exert themselves, to direct investments to profitable undertakings and to re-deploy resources away from...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 30, 2015 | The Legislature
With every grant of complete security to one group the insecurity of the rest necessarily increases. If you guarantee to some a fixed part of a variable cake, the share left to the rest is bound to fluctuate proportionally more than the size of the whole. —Friedrich...
by Matthew Bransgrove | Sep 30, 2015 | The Legislature
Perpetually, governments have thwarted and deranged the growth, but have in no way furthered it; save by partially discharging their proper function and maintaining social order. —Herbert Spencer. The Sins of the Legislature, 1850. The incredible advances in medical...
