“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution is that it was not. It was not written for a time and place but for… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
“Interpreters, when challenged on their manipulations, tell us the Constitution was written for a different and simpler time. Actually, the genius of the Constitution… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“The Panic of 1819 sounded a wakeup call to some that the founders had been right after all in separating State and Commerce. Having… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“Six thousand years ago, there were no fully developed writing systems at all though there were, maybe, twenty thousand fully developed languages. (Yes, there… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“However, after several false starts and with the lessons of history fading, America, too, would finally create a permanent central bank, in 1914. For… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“There are some 170 languages in the Philippines, almost all part of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family. I would assume most of… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“Every major war in American history, except the Mexican and Spanish-American, has either led to central banking or resulted from it. Central banking and… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“Just like money, we take writing for granted. Everybody reads and writes. No big deal. Actually, though, only a few hundred of the six… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“And of all those English words, the most dominant, the most powerful, the most amazing has to be... Okay. As a language person, with… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“Japanese verbs, for example, are agglutinative. The word ikasetakunakatta can fairly easily be divided into the five pieces – go-cause-want-not-past – that determine its… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“In the 20th century, it became more and more the norm for judges to incorrectly instruct juries that they must consider only the facts… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“Beyond a limited use of good ole vocab and grammar texts to give the students a base, textbooks of any kind just don’t have… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“So exalted was the idea of hegemony over self that every gentleman fell short. But the ideal itself was pursued for many generations. At… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“O say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hail’d at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
“There is never any confusion among competent speakers of English over whether who is subject or object. For example, consider the following questions: Who… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share
