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Not just Jackson and Coughlan and McCarthy. This goes back to John C. Calhoun, and John Taylor of Caroline-- the so-called “anti-Federalists” who were simultaneously opposed to centralized government and yet wanted to allow decentralized political entities to take whatever they could from whomever was weaker-- enslaving Africans, decimatig Native Americans. In other words, men who wanted to unleash human greed and cruelty and passion without the pesky obstacle of laws prtecting the innocent and vulnerable.

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