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Robert Nozick

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You can’t satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.

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The Obama Betrayals
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The Maine Thing
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A Private Party
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The Battle Ahead
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Gnashing of Teeth
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Minnesota Common Sense
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The Limits of Corruption
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Bad for Monopolists
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A Barney Frank Appraisal
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Fiddling with the Franchise
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What’s Up With Hate?
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Beacon of Liberty
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Socialism’s Idealistic Youth
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Strange Days
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On November 5, 1781, the second session of the United States in Congress Assembled began, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This “Second Confederation Congress,” as it is popularly known, ended on November 2, 1782.

And on that Fifth of November, 1781, John Hanson of Maryland (pictured above) was elected to serve as president of the United States in Congress Assembled. He would become the first president of Congress to serve a full one-year term as specified under the Articles of Confederation, for the second session of the Confederation Congress. Of course, this presidency was nothing like the presidencies under the Constitution. Hanson merely presided over Congress.

On November 5, 1872, Susan B. Anthony defied the law to vote, and was later fined $100.