they too have read montesquieu. you'll hear later today, george, the third has read montesquieu. he's trying to figure out how to balance the different parts of government together. but his picture for what would be a healthy balance is different from the picture that the colonists are beginning to develop. and so you get a complete clash of understand thing about how to structure authority and respond stability in durable and sustainable ways in that clash in that conflict that you have in effect, the cauldron for what is really original and powerful constitutional thinking happening right there in 1776. it then shows up in the declaration of independence, and i'll end here in the list of grievances. now, you are all great students, so i'm sure you have not overlooked the list of grievances as many people do. many people read the beautiful preamble and they jump straight to the reason that they're all going to mutually pledge their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to one another. don't skip the grievances, okay? does give them the part attention. they're organized in groups. fi

locke, montesquieu, the framers, and so many more.e a divided government separation of powers as are constitutional provides s is a dysfunctional government. incapable of serving that quickly evolving modern country. decision-making must be centralized. made by a class of experts and masterminds especially educated in trade civil servants. to determine not only what is best for the country but the decision or the policies are enforced throughout the country. woodrow wilson. many of the early scholars late 1800s and early 1900s of the so-called progressive movement the early american marxist. this is what they preach. we believe a divided government was separation of powers as it montesquieu argued as locke argued, aristotle argued is best suited to protect the rights and liberties of the individual. their free will and the knowledge, experience and expertise that floats from the interactions into the whole of society so the pieces make the hole. the whol hole does not control e pieces. people are imperfect. therefore, the must be cont

george, the third reading of montesquieu in his in his research.so i think the focus on the grievances of this panel and the facts on the ground helps us to understand more the reasons for the declaration conditions that created it and helped us relate to some of the issues today. those you know who have followed the competitive enterprise institute, my organization over our four decades, know that one of our main grievances is what we call regulation representation. the phrase is an apt description of laws effectively made by unelected regulatory agencies and the administrative state instead of the people's representatives congress. and we work with concerned political leaders like chairman hill here to push against the administrative regulatory state overstepping its authority from congress. now, the phrase regulation without representation represents and also connotes the battle that george washington and other patriots fought against taxation without representation. but researching my book, george washington entrepreneur available to online ven