“The founders understood that democracy would inevitably evolve into a system of legalized plunder unless the plundered were given numerous escape routes and constitutional protections such as the separation of powers, the Bill of Rights, election of senators by state legislators, the electoral college, no income taxation, most governmental functions performed at the state and local levels, and myriad other constitutional limitations on the powers of the central government.” StatesGovernmentGivenLevelsDemocracyRightsCollegeUnderstoodFunctionElectionBillsProtectionSeparationIncomeLocalsLimitationEvolveFoundersSenatorsRoutesTaxationIncome TaxLegislatorsBill Of RightsPlunderSeparation Of PowersElectoral CollegeCentral Government Author:Thomas DiLorenzo
“The number of small businesses in the United States totals about 25 million. Because most of these have a local trading territory, relatively few advertise online. Online advertising reaches the masses of the Internet world, whether they are local or not.” WorldStatesUnitedNumbersMillionsUnited StatesInternetMassLocalsAdvertisingOnlineTerritoryTradingSmall BusinessOnline Advertising Book:Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet Source: Get Rich Click!: The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet
“In the absence of a limitation on local enforcement powers, the states are bound by the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution to enforce violations of the federal immigration laws.” StatesLawUnitedUnited StatesConstitutionBoundsAbsenceImmigrationLocalsLimitationEnforcementViolationSupremacyClausesImmigration Laws Author:Russell Pearce
“Sen. Robert Menendez's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2010 would try to nullify every single state and local law that fights illegal immigration. Congressman Luis Gutierrez's CIR ASAP Act with over 100 Democratic co-sponsors does the same thing.” TryingDoeStatesLawFightingDemocraticImmigrationLocalsReformIllegalComprehensiveCongressmanImmigration ReformSponsorsIllegal Immigration Author:Russell Pearce
“2009 was a tough year, but Australia rose to the challenge of the global financial crisis. It shows what can be done when we all join together and work together, governments of all persuasions state, territory and local; businesses large and small; unions and local communities right across the nation.” YearsStatesDoneShowsGovernmentTogetherNationsCommunityChallengesToughCrisisUnionsRoseFinancialLocalsAustraliaWorking TogetherTerritoryPersuasionFinancial CrisisLocal CommunityLocal Business Author:Kevin Rudd
“In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But it doesn't pay to tell that to the local politicians or other organizational structures that run the place that. They didn't crucify Christ because they liked what he said.” SaidStatesRunningEarthHumanityChristPayBrainPlanetsBuddhismPoliticianNormalPoliceStructurePrisonLocalsInsaneCampsPlanet EarthOrganizationalGestapoOrganizational Structure Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's traditionally not federal policy to fund state and local salaries. It's done sometimes on a temporary basis or a grant basis. But it's not often done. And the reason is clear, because the federal government can't continue in perpetuity these programs.” SometimesStatesReasonDoneGovernmentClearPolicyProgramBasesLocalsFundGrantsTemporaryFederal GovernmentSalary Author:Jim Talent
“I can finally go home and tell the constituents, law enforcement, and leaders in Washington state that Congress is treating the meth problem with the same urgency and commitment that local communities have been treating it with for years.” YearsHas BeensI CanStatesProblemHomeLawCommunityLeaderCommitmentCongressLocalsLaw EnforcementEnforcementUrgencyConstituentsLocal CommunityWashington State Author:Rick Larsen
“Let's just be clear here. The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it's appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way.” MenWayFeelsStatesHousePresidentWhiteUnitedUnited StatesClearPressesVicesNewspapersLocalsAppropriateOwnersWhite HouseVice PresidentCorpusNotify Author:David Gregory
“Obviously, the technology community in Massachusetts competes in a global economy, and our efforts to create a more competitive environment recognizes that competitiveness at a local level. We'd expect employers in other states to use this site as they consider where in Massachusetts to locate or expand their presence.” StatesUseCommunityLevelsEffortTechnologyEconomyEnvironmentCompetitionLocalsSiteEmployersGlobal EconomyMassachusettsCompetitiveness Author:Christopher Anderson
“During the last dozen years the tales of suppression of free assemblage, free press, and free speech, by local authorities or the State operating under martial law have been so numerous as to have become an old story. They are attacked at the instigation of an economically and socially powerful class, itself enjoying to the full the advantages of free communications, but bent on denying them to the class it holds within its power.” YearsHas BeensWarStatesStoriesLastsLawEnjoyPowerfulClassPowerMilitaryCommunicationSpeechAuthorityAdvantageEconomicsConstitutionPressesLocalsTalesOppressionDozenFree SpeechBentDespotismSuppressionFree PressAssemblageMartial Law Author:Edward Alsworth Ross
“You have the biggest impact on controlling, on affecting local lives as mayor. It's so much more important than being a state legislator.” ImportantStatesImpactLocalsMayorsLegislators Author:Dick Murphy
“In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.” StatesGovernmentMiddleRelationTownsWesternActiveLocalsCountyColonyLocal GovernmentForerunners Author:Albert Bushnell Hart
“A masterly analysis of how political interests, economic circumstances, development strategies, and local history have shaped what are surprisingly different versions of the welfare state across the developing world. The authors combine fine-grained country analyses with intelligent use of data, and explain and extend the theory and literature on the modern welfare state. The book is both scholarly and readable.” WorldBookDifferentCountryStatesUsePoliticalLiteratureInterestEconomicModernTheoryFineDevelopmentCircumstancesIntelligentStrategyLocalsVersionsDataDevelopingWelfareAnalysisWelfare StateScholarlyLocal History Author:Nancy Birdsall
“Either the State for ever, crushing individual and local life, taking over in all fields of human activity, bringing with it its wars and its domestic struggles for power, its palace revolutions which only replace one tyrant by another, and inevitably at the end of this development there is ... death! Or the destruction of States, and new life starting again in thousands of centers on the principle of the lively initiative of the individual and groups and that of free agreement.The choice lies with you!” HumansWarEndsStatesLyingChoicesIndividualPrinciplesStruggleGroupsFieldsRevolutionDevelopmentActivityDestructionStartingLocalsCrushAgreementTyrantsInitiativeNew LifePalacesLivelyHuman Activity Author:Peter Kropotkin
“At one end of the spectrum are the terrorist gangs within our borders, and the terrorist states which finance and arm them. At the other are the hard left operating inside our system, conspiring to use union power and the apparatus of local government to break, defy and subvert the law.” EndsHardStatesUseGovernmentLawLeftBreakArmsUnionsTerroristLocalsFinanceBordersGangSpectrumLocal GovernmentConspiring Book:The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher Source: The collected speeches of Margaret Thatcher
“No-knock police raids destroy Americans' right to privacy and safety. People's lives are being ruined or ended as a result of unsubstantiated assertions by anonymous government informants. ... Unfortunately, no-knock raids are becoming more common as federal, state, and local politicians and law enforcement agencies decide that the war on drugs justified nullifying the Fourth Amendment. ... No-knock raids in response to alleged narcotics violations presume that the government should have practically unlimited power to endanger some people's lives in order to control what others ingest.” PeopleShouldWarStatesGovernmentLawOrderResultsCommonBecomingPoliticianDrugShould HavePoliceSafetyResponseLocalsAgencyPrivacyAmendmentsFourthUnlimitedLaw EnforcementRuinedEnforcementJustifiedViolationAssertionBecoming MoreWar On DrugsNarcoticsUnlimited PowerRight To PrivacyFourth AmendmentInformants Author:James Bovard
“Offensive realism predicts that the United States will send its army across the Atlantic when there is a potential hegemon in Europe that the local great powers cannot contain by themselves.” StatesUnitedUnited StatesEuropeArmyLocalsRealismOffensiveGreat Power Author:John Mearsheimer