Victoria Shaw

Misanthrope, amateur historian, attorney without any clients, quondam Calvinist

[Victoria Shaw @TheVShawShow]

“[T]he friendless alien has indeed been selected as the safest subject of a first experiment: but the citizen will soon follow, or rather has already followed; for, already has a Sedition Act marked him as its prey.” - Thomas Jefferson

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@FeserEdward Thomas Jefferson: “Let those flatter who fear; it is not an American art. To give praise which is not due might be well from the venal, but would ill beseem those who are asserting the rights of human nature.” (A Summary View of the Rights of British America, 1774.)

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Thank you for pointing out that establishments of religion are bad for *everyone,* believers included. Madison said their effect is “to weaken in those who profess this Religion a pious confidence in its innate excellence and the patronage of its Author.” Jesus doesnt need the government help to protect his church. “It is known known that this Religion both existed and flourished, not only without the support of human laws, but in spite of every opposition from them.”

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@TenthAmendment “How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” - Sam Adam

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@TenthAmendment “But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American War? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people.” - John Adams

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@MelissaW8Stamps @ThomasEWoods I think it’s more like this but yeah

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@ctbruss @mattvanswol I’m actually not a partisan hack, so I thought those were unconstitutional, too, but nice try with the whataboutism

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@CorinaStoc13925 @mattvanswol MAGA like the idiotic OP himself,@mattvanswol but nice try! 👏

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@EricLDaugh I just hope the USA stays out of it.

No troops. No missiles. No planes.

Nothing.

Just stay out of it.

Not our fight.

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@mattvanswol Hey @mattvanswol This you?

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[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

@EricLDaugh I just hope the USA stays out of it.

No troops. No missiles. No planes.

Nothing.

Just stay out of it.

Not our fight.

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@TenthAmendment “It will not follow … that acts of the larger society which are NOT pursuant to its constitutional powers, but which are invasions of the residual authorities of the smaller powers will become the supreme law of the land. These will be merely acts of usurpation.” - AH

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@RexVallachorum @mattvanswol @jonfavs Standing without prompting because you felt you should? No. Whining on Twitter because somebody you don’t know, didn’t stand when prompted for a woman that they didn’t know? Yeah that’s definitely performative nonsense, and also woke.

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@tharpd38 @mattvanswol @jonfavs Guess so. I never did get into the woke stuff like @mattvanswol 😎

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@Ivantheboomer @mattvanswol @jonfavs Sorry you totally missed the point 🤦‍♀️

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@mattvanswol @jonfavs This is just like the “Say her name!” antics from a few years back. Forcing random people to stand for (or speak for) people they have no connection to is performative woke nonsense.

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@justinamash It’s worse than unconstitutional, though that’s certainly bad enough. Madison said that allowing the executive to declare war would strike at the foundation of all “well organized and well checked governments.” This goes back to Montesquieu and the basic separation of powers.

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@TenthAmendment Madison also said that a delegation of powers whereby the executive could declare war (even in a recess of the legislature) would have struck “not only at the fabric of our constitution, but at the foundation of ALL well organized and well checked governments.” (Emphasis added)

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@mattvanswol @EricLDaugh Please do try to sue. The relevant school board attorneys would probably relish sharing that story at this year’s conference 😂

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@Acyn There was once a time when even Alexander Hamilton knew we should distinguish “patriotism from a blind partiality for national errors.” Why can’t we make America great again in THAT way?

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@BulwarkOnline “When we formerly had weak & corrupt governors, it was our misfortune; but for the future, while we enjoy and exercise the inestimable right of chusing them ourselves, it will be our disgrace.” - Samuel Adams