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These Days Before the Vote: "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence . . . by the military-industrial complex."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: "We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence . . . by the military-industrial complex."

Whitewater, Wis. — Today’s entry this gray Friday morning continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which our liberal democratic tradition rests. In his 1961 Farewell Radio and Television Address, Pres. Dwight Eisenhower warned that This conjunction of an immense military establishment
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John Adams
These Days Before the Vote: "Now, this means that our government, national and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: "Now, this means that our government, national and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests."

Whitewater, Wis. — Today’s entry this Wednesday morning continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which our liberal democratic tradition rests. Here in my beautiful small town, a common challenge comes from the machinations of a few men scheming to control this
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John Adams
These Days Before the Vote: "declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: "declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever."

Whitewater, Wis. — Today’s entry this Tuesday afternoon continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which our liberal democratic tradition rests. Consider the Declaration’s charge against the British monarch: “For suspending our own Legislatures, declaring themselves invested with power to legislate
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John Adams
These Days Before the Vote: "For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: "For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States."

Whitewater, Wis. — Today’s entry this Monday evening continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which our liberal democratic tradition rests. Consider the Declaration’s charge against the British monarch: “For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders
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John Adams
These Days Before the Vote: "He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: "He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power."

Whitewater, Wis. — Today’s entry this Sunday evening continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which our liberal democratic tradition rests. Consider the Declaration’s charge against the British monarch: “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to
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John Adams
These Days Before the Vote: "He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither..."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: "He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither..."

Whitewater, Wis. — Today’s entry this Saturday evening continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which our liberal democratic tradition rests. Consider the Declaration’s charge against the British monarch: “He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that
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John Adams
These Days Before the Vote: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures."

Fort Atkinson, Wis. — Today’s entry this clear Friday evening continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which our liberal democratic tradition rests. Consider the Declaration’s charge against the British monarch: “He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing
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John Adams
These Days Before the Vote: "In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: "In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury."

Whitewater, Wis. — Today’s entry this Thursday evening continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which our liberal democratic tradition rests. Consider the Declaration’s charge against the British monarch: “In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in
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John Adams
These Days Before the Vote: "For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: "For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent."

Whitewater, Wis. — Today’s entry this Wednesday evening continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which our liberal democratic tradition rests. Consider the Declaration’s charge against the British monarch: “For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent.” American colonists rightly objected
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John Adams
These Days Before the Vote: “For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: “For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world."

Whitewater, Wis. — Today’s entry this Tuesday evening continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which the liberal democratic tradition rests. Consider the Declaration’s charge against the British monarch “For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world.” From
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John Adams
These Days Before the Vote: "I shall not array myself as the political partisan of any man. In defending the great cause of human rights, I wish to derive the assistance of all religions and of all parties."
These Days Before the Vote

These Days Before the Vote: "I shall not array myself as the political partisan of any man. In defending the great cause of human rights, I wish to derive the assistance of all religions and of all parties."

Chicago, Ill. — Today’s entry this Monday afternoon continues These Days Before the Vote, a series addressing each day before the November election a principle or position on which the liberal democratic tradition rests. In the inaugural issue of William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator, Garrison wrote that “I shall not array myself as
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John Adams