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I mean, in the end, the money quote when it comes to designing governments to me always goes back to Federalist 51: (Emphasis added.)

Arguable. Some of the most enduring and memorable characters were created under the Comic's Code, especially in Marvel. There's something a lot of creative types know but don't like officially saying but "boundaries encourage creativity". Knowing the limit of what you can do actually can help...

But he's not argued for no government, just limited government... and the protection of Trademarks (which is what, in effect that label is) is generally considered to be a perfectly legitimate form of government power. As such, someone falsely using the label (or a close approximation of it...

Oh, I know the Biblical quote by Christ is not the oldest, the Confucian version (phrased as "Do not do to others what you do not want them to do to you.") appears in the Analytics which slightly predate the New Testament, for instance, and the number of ways this principle has been laid out...

Strictly speaking, the NAP is just a slight rephrase of a much older axiom that has been repeated throughout multiple cultures throughout the world, but is best known in Western thought as "The Golden Rule": "In everything do unto others what you would have them do unto you..." As such, one can...

I'm not? I was speaking specifically of Jim Crow laws, not slavery. Though slavery was always at odds with the government the Framers were setting up. They knew it too, which is why slavery has special carveouts for it in the Constitution. And these are not "Roe v Wade" levels of...

No, this is systematically and fundamentally wrong. Washington and New York did not create those standards, all the States did under the US Constitution. The Jim Crow Laws were an affront to the Constitution of the United States on multiple levels. One can make arguments against the Jim Crow...

Collectivism requires more than just having a centralized command economy. Look at Bronze Age legal codes that we have from those same palace economies, those are most certainly not written with collectivist philosophy or understanding of society in mind, rather, they are built around...

. . . This is just as patently ridiculous a claim. People have many things that are independent of their native culture, not the least of which is their soul, unless, I guess, you believe in reincarnation, but since that's not actually a thing in the western religions that underpin western...

Believing that the family is the basic unit society is built around =/= collectivism. To claim otherwise is to claim that ever prior society in history is somehow collectivist, which is nonsensical. Collectivism as an idea didn't really appear until the 19th century, maybe late 18th century...