Smaller Government – & Most Everything Else – Is Still More Beautiful! With Don Livingston

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Don Livingston interview title: Smaller Government – & Most Everything Else – Is Still More Beautiful!

 Special Guest Professor Donald Livingston

Professor of Philosophy at Emory University and a David Hume scholar

Author of Rethinking the American Union for the Twenty-First Century

Abbeville Institute – 

• Large Empires w/ central government ruling.
• Very small republics – the public things – these were very small there were about 1500 of them. The largest was Athens.
• That civilization created world class artist, architects and much more.
• It was a very unique civilization.
• You mention Florence, until the state of Italy was created in 1880, they had Papal States.
• We need to carve the Northern part of Virginia off for sure.
• They handled this through Secession.
• Massachusetts and Maine – Maine LEFT Massachusetts!
• After Lincoln we get this ONE NATION INDIVISIBLE 
• The Pledge of Allegiance – The meaning of the war can be put into 3 words. 
• The war was about centralizing power NOT about slavery.
• TRIVIA on Gov. Morris – 
• Human Scale  –  as compared to bedroom sizes
• Washington is a cancer that is spreading to all other states.
• Why Some Americans Need to Believe the Civil War Was About Slavery – NEW BOOK (It will be in 3 parts.)
• Michael F Holtz – the War of Northern Aggression 
• A political act of survival! The Civil War
• A sectional party – the hatred of the South was out of control b/c it was so fertile. Most of the goods/commodities came from the South.
• The political party opposed the SECTION….the South.
• Agitation over slavery was why SOME states seceded. 
• 4 states voted NOT to join the Confederacy 
• 7 States seceded and voted no.
• Gods and Generals  –  official movie trailer
• There are organizations that are actively trying to protect this history!