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	<title>Essays from an Old Whig</title>
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	<description>"A little prudence, a little patience, and a little serious reflection..."</description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish you the best this holiday. It is sad to think that what was considered proper and just, is now thought to be a violation of someone&#8217;s right to freedom from religion, a concept that has no support in either the Constitution itself, or in any of the commentaries from the Convention or elsewhere. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theoldwhig.com/?p=20</link>
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		<title>The Living Constitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Edmund Burke once wrote,
&#8220;Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains on their own appetites. Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without. It is ordained in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theoldwhig.com/?p=15</link>
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		<title>Rethinking The 17th Amendment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The formation of a new conservative focus group, the Patrick Henry Caucus, causes me to repost this article, originally written in July of 2004. I think it is important to repost now because of the increasing interest in, and focus on, Statesâ€™ Rights. For example, Montana has recently passed legislation that would bar the Federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theoldwhig.com/?p=6</link>
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		<title>The Old Whig</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The pen name The Old Whig has a couple of sources.
The first is from a reference by Friedrich Hayek regarding Edmund Burke.
The second is from The Anti-Federalist papers. An anonymous author used the name An Old Whig to sign all his correspondence to the editor of the local newspaper. The Old Whig was one of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theoldwhig.com/?p=4</link>
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