Sorry about the play on words, however, in looking for a title for this article, it seemed appropriate to choose the rooster instead of the chicken, as the rooster has a specific role in the relationship. The egg, however, is a birth, a creation of something new — that will continue to grow, eventually replacing both the rooster and the chicken, in the scheme of things.
Perhaps a few words from the Father of the Constitution might be appropriate:
[The government] can make no law
which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends,
as well as on the great mass of the society. This has always been
deemed one of the strongest bonds by which human policy can connect the
rulers and the people together. It creates between them that communion
of interests and sympathy of sentiments, of which few governments have
furnished examples; but without which every government degenerates into
tyranny. If it be asked, what is to restrain the [Government] from
making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular
class of the society? I answer:
the genius of the whole system; the
nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant and
manly spirit which actuates the people of America- a spirit which
nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.
If this spirit shall ever be so far debased as to tolerate a law not obligatory on the [Government], as well as on the people, the people will be prepared to tolerate any thing but liberty.
James Madison, Federalist No. 57
The law was first introduced on July 17, 1861 {2}, just over three months after the war had begun), and:
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