Status Updates From The Constitution of the Uni...

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persons' before the year 1808. I wonder where they got these arbitrary numbers from.

The layout of the Constitution is also systematic. Articles I, II, III for the legislative, executive, and judicial branches respectively. I wonder why the executive branch has the least sections.

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its own, without the state providing public goods.

Of course, one cannot infer this by reading the Constitution alone - for it is but a normative document. One must investigate the empirical facts into whether the state indeed cajoled growth and innovation.

An interesting fact in Section 9 of Article 1: the Constitution explicitly prohibited Congress from banning 'the migration of importation of such ...

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law to allow for the Smithian-Hayekian economy to thrive. But Section 8 - a description of how Congress shall do active things like preserving patents ('securing for limited times to authors and investors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries', as the Constitution calls it) because innovation is a positive externality - reinforced in my mind that a market economy cannot hold ...

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The Constitution turns out to be, not surprising in the slightest, a terse legal document. But that doesn't stop it from summoning many reflections to the mind.

Section 8 of Article 1 in particular, made me reflect on how the state has actually had a steady hand in guiding commercial enterprise. I may relax my belief somewhat, to settle at the weaker belief, that the state has merely upheld the rule of ...

One should reread this at least once a year.