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Ep. 104: The Vatican With Mouse Ears

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A Federal Bank Is the Remedy to America's Problem of Size

Madison argues that a federal bank will accrue to much power and be a source of corruption, just like the east india trading company was in its capacity. This is because unlike natural people, who are born with certain natural rights, legal don't exist before the government creates them. And so madison here is up against this french guy, a charles louis de second, a baron de montesquieu,. He writes the spirit of the laws, and in the spirit of lawas he says, it's natural to a republic to have only a small territory otherwise it cannot long survive in federalist ten.

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