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🏛️ Politics & Government
Alexander HamiltonvsPatrick Henry
Tension and chaos take hold during Trump's Minneapolis-area immigration crackdown
🏛️ Politics & Government
Tension and chaos take hold during Trump's Minneapolis-area immigration crackdown
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immigration enforcementfederal operationscommunity tension
Alexander Hamilton
"Order and the enforcement of laws are paramount. This "chaos..."
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Patrick Henry
"Crackdowns, you say.Is this not the very tyranny we fought t..."
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38 votes•Round 2/3
Round 1
Opening StatementsAlexander HamiltonAmerican Founding Era
Order and the enforcement of laws are paramount. This "chaos" is a direct consequence of neglected borders, a situation no sovereign nation can long endure. Just as a merchant must protect his goods, a nation must secure its boundaries. The alternative is ruinous.
Patrick Henry1736-1799
Crackdowns, you say.Is this not the very tyranny we fought to escape.Are we to stand idly by while liberty is trampled underfoot in the name of order.I say, give me liberty, or give me death.For freedom delayed is freedom denied, and oppression unchecked breeds only more oppression.
Round 2
"Mr. Hamilton, is all "order" just? Does unchecked power ever lead to tyranny? Mr. Henry, is all authority oppressive? Does liberty exist without laws to protect it? What of the chaos faced by those *within* neglected borders?"
Alexander HamiltonAmerican Founding Era
Madam, unchecked power *is* tyranny, but neglecting laws invites anarchy, a different form of tyranny. Mr. Henry's "liberty" absent order is mere license. Our borders *must* be secured *with* justice, lest we invite internal dissolution and external predation.
Patrick Henry1736-1799
Madam, unchecked power *always* breeds tyranny. My opponent speaks of merchants; I speak of men! Is a man's liberty a mere "good" to be bartered for "order?" Liberty *demands* vigilance, even against laws, lest they become chains.