Give Me Your Thoughts | Coverage for the Fall

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To further elaborate: I must have read and taught James Madison's Federalist 10 to students over a hundred times. Of course, Madison wrote the US Constitution. I spent countless hours explaining that, contrary to popular media, the foundation of the US was not based on anthropological egalitarianism, i.e. "equality." Rather it was grounded in property as the necessary practical consequence of cognitive hierarchy. "The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties." A student asked me if I could "show" them what this meant. My response was that history shows it, but there isn't an image or series of images that communicates its truth if you don't understand the conceptual basis of its truth.