Peter's Blog

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton held fundamentally different beliefs about the relationship between Federal and local government. Jefferson held that the local government was the primary building block of the nation and that the federal government had the responsibility to protect rights and deal with administrative tasks such as defense and trade that would be […]

Democracy truly was not meant for us. Democracy was built for people that are so different from us that they would hardly recognize us or the form of government we have built on democratic principles. Democracy was meant to be governance of all by the free. In our society, except for circumstances of age or […]

What if I told you of a land in which people could vote on the state’s ability to tax them? If the state had not given anything worthwhile to the people, they could in principle refuse to be taxed until the state regained their trust. The states and towns are largely free to decide upon […]

 Harvard faces an unprecedented threat to its scale and role in the life of the Nation. Its lack of compliance with the President has made it face the potential of losing billions of dollars of federal funds. As well endowed as the university is, a significant portion of its operating budget comes from federal grants […]