The Minority Quotes
Jefferson had just won a bitter, partisan election, and this was his attempt to reach out to the Federalist minority whose newspapers had been predicting that a Jefferson victory would bring a tyranny of the majority.
The issue of who should vote in the new United States was a contentious one. Some thought that only people with a certain amount of property should vote because the poor did not have anything to protect. Franklin had even suggested that the House be elected by most men and the Senate by the rich. Actually, for many years Senators were perceived as the representatives of the wealthy compared to the house which represented the common people. The model most people knew then was the English Parliament where the House of Commons represented the common people and the House of Lords represented the nobility which was also an economic aristocracy.
Some people read this part of the declaration as saying that if Muslims are in the majority and control the nation, there is no problem with violence. But if the Muslims are in the minority, they will likely be violent. Needless to say, this alarms most Western nations.
On that day, the Republican Majority in the House adopted a strategy to attach conditions to the normal budget process that they knew was unacceptable to the Senate and the President. The United States Government, the greatest nation on Earth, literally shut down all but the most essential services. What was worse is that the majority of the House of Representatives would pass a clean budget if they could vote on it. But the Tea Party Republicans blackmailed the Republican speaker that he would lose his speakership if he did not follow their strategy which was ironically controlled by a Republican Senator who had already lost on the issues they wanted in the Senate and in a Presidential election.
He was convicted and served three years in Federal prision.
The meaning of “mimesis” is imitation and adoption. Toynbee argues that many important innovations are developed in a thriving civilization by minorities—ethnic, religious, national and intellectual. And the majority soon adopts and imitates those innovations thus permeating them throughout society.
“Collegiate management” referred to a government central finance department that would be managed by committees of politicians and/or experts for the entire country. What Google feared was that elites like bankers and merchants would dominate and control the finances of the new government. He preferred to keep most of the financial management at the provincial and city governmental level. Further, that management by committee was inefficient and often produced gridlock. By the 21st century virtually every nation had a central bank or ministry that managed the nation’s finances in a globalized world. And there was a central banker in charge (although the amount of authority differs by nation.) However Gogel’s concern has never been abated. Virtually every country had evolved to where the nation’s finances were operated and/or controlled by elite minorities. The technical and educational requirements forced that to happen.
