{"id":518,"date":"2024-06-05T16:47:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T22:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2024-06-05T16:48:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T22:48:02","slug":"a-positive-feedback-loop-of-power-grabbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"A Positive Feedback Loop of Power-Grabbing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/marginalnonhermit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/tingey-injury-law-firm-DZpc4UY8ZtY-unsplash-1.jpg?w=580&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-521\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/tenthamendmentcenter.com\/2024\/04\/13\/a-positive-feedback-loop-of-power-grabbing\/\">latest article<\/a> over at the Tenth Amendment Center, examining the fundamental idea by Locke that &#8220;<em>it is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">This simple idea, and our failure to keep our government accountable to it, is the root of many of the problems we&#8217;re dealing with today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out my latest article over at the Tenth Amendment Center, examining the fundamental idea by Locke that &#8220;it is unreasonable for men to be judges in their own cases.&#8221; This simple idea, and our failure to keep our government accountable to it, is the root of many of the problems we&#8217;re dealing with today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[86,193,19,72],"class_list":["post-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essay","category-political","tag-freedom","tag-john-locke","tag-liberty","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marginalnonhermit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}