Analysis: Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has attacked history lessons in Florida and is preparing a run for president, dismisses slavery in his 2011 book as a “personal flaw” of the Founding Fathers.
, which is about preventing conflicts between states. In its full context, Hamilton is exploring the pitfalls
of keeping a standing army: “The industrious habits of the people of the present day, absorbed in the pursuits of gain, and devoted to the improvements of agriculture and commerce, are incompatible with the condition of a nation of soldiers, which was the true condition of the people of those [previous] republics.”
DeSantis also seems here to diminish his own life of public service. The U.S. Navy has been his employer; since he published the book, he’s been employed by Congress and the state of Florida.DeSantis devotes a chunk of his book to the sacredness of property rights and Obama’s alleged disrespect for them , but in doing so he commits a much bigger cherry-picking blunder on slavery.
“advised the delegates that ‘these natural rights cannot be separated. The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, a social right.’” Madison, though, was not talking about the deed to your house or an unfair tax. The 1829 convention was called because in Virginia only White men who owned property were allowed to vote, and a bunch of White men who didn’t own property wanted to vote, too. Madison didn’t want such men to have the right to take away
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