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law to allow for the Smithian-Hayekian economy to thrive. But Section 8 - a description of how Congress shall do active things like preserving patents ('securing for limited times to authors and investors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries', as the Constitution calls it) because innovation is a positive externality - reinforced in my mind that a market economy cannot hold ...
— Feb 27, 2026 10:37PM
law to allow for the Smithian-Hayekian economy to thrive. But Section 8 - a description of how Congress shall do active things like preserving patents ('securing for limited times to authors and investors the exclusive rights to their respective writings and discoveries', as the Constitution calls it) because innovation is a positive externality - reinforced in my mind that a market economy cannot hold ...
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Isaac Chan
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persons' before the year 1808. I wonder where they got these arbitrary numbers from.
The layout of the Constitution is also systematic. Articles I, II, III for the legislative, executive, and judicial branches respectively. I wonder why the executive branch has the least sections.
— Feb 27, 2026 10:37PM
persons' before the year 1808. I wonder where they got these arbitrary numbers from.
The layout of the Constitution is also systematic. Articles I, II, III for the legislative, executive, and judicial branches respectively. I wonder why the executive branch has the least sections.
Isaac Chan
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its own, without the state providing public goods.
Of course, one cannot infer this by reading the Constitution alone - for it is but a normative document. One must investigate the empirical facts into whether the state indeed cajoled growth and innovation.
An interesting fact in Section 9 of Article 1: the Constitution explicitly prohibited Congress from banning 'the migration of importation of such ...
— Feb 27, 2026 10:37PM
its own, without the state providing public goods.
Of course, one cannot infer this by reading the Constitution alone - for it is but a normative document. One must investigate the empirical facts into whether the state indeed cajoled growth and innovation.
An interesting fact in Section 9 of Article 1: the Constitution explicitly prohibited Congress from banning 'the migration of importation of such ...
Isaac Chan
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The Constitution turns out to be, not surprising in the slightest, a terse legal document. But that doesn't stop it from summoning many reflections to the mind.
Section 8 of Article 1 in particular, made me reflect on how the state has actually had a steady hand in guiding commercial enterprise. I may relax my belief somewhat, to settle at the weaker belief, that the state has merely upheld the rule of ...
— Feb 27, 2026 10:36PM
The Constitution turns out to be, not surprising in the slightest, a terse legal document. But that doesn't stop it from summoning many reflections to the mind.
Section 8 of Article 1 in particular, made me reflect on how the state has actually had a steady hand in guiding commercial enterprise. I may relax my belief somewhat, to settle at the weaker belief, that the state has merely upheld the rule of ...
