Tuesday 19 May 2009

History, pages 69-72

Social Justice and the General Welfare

To protect the life and liberty of all freemen, there was an established catalogue of penalties for the loss of each limb or any other act of maiming or injury to an individual.

What was not provided

They didn't provide for any executive to speak with one voice for all of the states in time of emergency.  Also, They didn't provide for any means of enforcing the decrees of Congress except by sending out an army to declare war on an offending state.

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