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I AM FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

sensiblemajority, February 17, 2025February 19, 2025

AND I AM HERE TO HELP YOU It may surprise the average American to know that in 1980 there were 2.9 million Federal Employees. Today 45 years later the Federal Work Force consists of 3 million employees. During this time the U.S. population has grown from 226 million citizens to…

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ACRONYMS SAVE LIVES

sensiblemajority, February 16, 2025February 17, 2025

Acronyms are used to shorten the names of organizations. It is a shorthand so we can identify them easily. It dehumanizes them. Their full names are closely associated with their function. And their function is what sensible governance strives to do. Help citizens lead better lives. We are hearing these…

A Word From Our Founders: Alexander Hamilton

January 13, 2025

Been a while since we added a Word From Our Founders but I was moved by an Alexander Hamilton Quote and thought it might be worth a few words. When The American Experiment in Democracy began, the Founders adopted a very conservative approach. They believed in an Aristocracy of Talent...

May 26, 2024

Thomas Jefferson is said to have written the poetry of America’s aspirations, Madison wrote the prose.

May 1, 2024

The election of 1800 pitted the incumbent John Adams against Thomas Jefferson. The early founders abhorred the idea of political parties...

April 3, 2024

Alexander Hamilton is the only one of the founders who did not survive to an old age. Many lived into their 60s and beyond.

March 31, 2024

John Jay has historically been relegated to the second tier of the Founding Fathers. Yet he was instrumental in getting New York to ratify the Constitution. Had either Virginia or New York failed to ratify the Constitution it is unlikely that the young nation would have survived. He successfully negotiated...