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Part 19 of Emanuel Josephson's 1948 book, "Your Life is Their Toy; Merchants in Medicine."
Read by Jim Bunyan of Rejected Knowledge.
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YLITT19 - Your Life is Their Toy series - Part 19
In the final episode of AFP, Cato's final Letter (No. 7) mentions the Senate's close ties to the Presidency; that conflicts of interest will rear their heads and render impotent any checks and balances applying to treaties and impeachments.
Cato is also concerned that the new Congress will have control over the circumstances of their own elections. As a result of this, through manipulation there will be limits to its subserviency to the people.
Cato provides historical examples of the dangers of fully enabling politicians and bureaucrats to positions of authority.
He warns that caution should be the rule when entrusting any government with power.
Cato is concerned that the new government will travel down a similar road in time, and asks his countrymen to consider the implications.
Read by Eric the Blacksmith.
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Part 18 of Emanuel Josephson's 1948 book, "Your Life is Their Toy; Merchants in Medicine."
Read by Jim Bunyan of Rejected Knowledge.
Find other Rejected Knowledge series and other complete series under the Pages section to the right.
Listen below or download it here.
Cato uses his Letter No. 6 to speak to the "Three-Fifth Rule" regarding the apportionment of representation to - and concomitant participation of - women, children and Indigenous Americans in states practicing slavery.
While it could be argued that Cato's concern is misplaced in a pre-suffrage era, he accurately warns that parasitic politicians will load up the people’s labors and assets with ruinous levies and tributes. Cato asserts that elites will employ every effort to transfer burdens to the people.
He avers that the new government will have no real checks and balances under the proposed Constitution.
Cato is concerned that the new government will be a costly affair, will use its new-found wealth to leverage its will, and construct a hierarchy of privilege among the political class.
With great prescience, Cato further cautions about taxes, overseas conscriptions to satisfy the power-hungry, and the Senate’s unaccountable oversight of treaties.
Please pardon some interspersed background baseboard noise during the recording. Read by Eric the Blacksmith.
Find previous episodes and other series under the Pages section to the right.
Listen below or download it here.
AFP24 - Anti-Federalist Papers - Part 24
Part 17 of Emanuel Josephson's 1948 book, "Your Life is Their Toy; Merchants in Medicine."
Read by Jim Bunyan of Rejected Knowledge.
Find other Rejected Knowledge series and other complete series under the Pages section to the right.
Listen below or download it here.