On June 5, 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, started its ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin
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Harriet Beecher Stowe
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
The biggest story of the week, of the month, perhaps of the year. And, so far, it has gotten no coverage.
Except at Townhall this Monday, courtesy of your own Humble . . . Paul Jacob.
Click on over. Then come back here to drill down further into this most amazing development in constitutional history.
- Common Sense: The Lost Amendment, Found!
- Restore Representation: The Issue That No One Talks About
- New Revere Daily Press: Did This New Jersey Lawyer Discover a Lost Constitutional Amendment?
- LaVergne v US House of Representatives (Complaint)
- LaVergne, et al v. US House of Representatives – Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support
- LaVergne, et al v. US House of Representatives – Notice of Motions
- How “Less” is “More”: the Story of the Real First Amendment to the United States Constitution, by Eugene Martin LaVergne
- Legislation and Public Policy (NYU): The Role of Electoral Accountability in The Madisonian Machine
- Teaching American History: What about the Two Amendments and Three States that Got Away?
- NJ.com: Former U.S. Senate candidate from N.J. sentenced to 7 years in prison
- Thirty-Thousand.org
- Townhall: Fixing California, by Paul Jacob
- Common Sense: More Politicians?
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Thaddeus Stevens
There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics in false religion – in the bloody religions of the heathen. There are fanatics in superstition. But there can be no fanatic, however warm their zeal, in the true religion, even although you sell your goods and bestow your money on the poor, and go on and follow your Master. There may, and every hour shows around me, fanatics in the cause of false liberty – that infamous liberty which justifies human bondage, that liberty whose ‘corner-stone is slavery.’ But there can be no fanaticism however high the enthusiasm, in the cause of rational, universal liberty – the liberty of the Declaration of Independence.
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Tankman, Thanks
June 4 marks Finland’s Armed Forces Day, Tonga’s Emancipation [or Independence] Day (commemorating the abolition of serfdom in Tonga by King George Tupou in 1862, and the independence of Tonga from the British protectorate in 1970), Estonia’s Flag Day, and the international Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 Memorial Day.
Should you let your son suffer, perhaps even die, if the medicine he needs — the only medicine that helps — is illegal to administer?
The question answers itself. It’s the answer that Matthew and Suzeanna Brill acted on when they let their 15-year-old son David smoke marijuana to help control his epileptic seizures. Nothing else was doing the job.
“For 71 days our son rode his bike, woke up, went to school, played with friends, played outside; and the terror for his life that gripped our hearts and souls began to lift,” says Suzeanna. “We were breaking the law. We saved our son.”
But because the Brills did what they did — and because a thoughtless therapist tattled on them — Georgia’s Family and Children Services took David away, with the help of the sheriff’s office of Twiggs County. So David has been living in a group home, forcibly separated from his parents and presumably from any effective treatment for his life-threatening seizures.
“Whatever the law is, it’s my job to enforce it,” says Sheriff Darren Mitchum in rationalizing his deplorable conduct. (Whatever the law is?) After all, “somebody’s got to stand up for the child’s welfare.” Because, as everyone knows, preventing destructive seizures could not possibly be in the best interest of the person suffering from those seizures . . . right?
Fighting to get their son back, the Brills are raising money for the legal costs through a GoFundMe campaign.
Let’s help them succeed. Fast.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
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Zechariah Chafee
Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins.
On June 3, 1959, Singapore adopted a constitution.
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Kenneth Minogue
Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.
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The Lost Amendment, Found!
Eugene M. LaVergne has something to say about the Ratified Congressional Apportionment Amendment. Don’t know what that is? Well, that’s why we set this series of videos before your eyes. This is quite a tale:
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And for a little reading:
New Revere Daily Press: “Did This New Jersey Lawyer Discover a Lost Constitutional Amendment?”
How “Less” is “More”: the Story of the Real First Amendment to the United States Constitution, by Eugene Martin LaVergne, with Leonard P Marshall