Past examples include “The Clash of Civilizations” by Samuel Huntington and “A Separate Peace” by Peggy Noonan. Both of these are still incredibly valuable reading.

Today, when many politicians are trying to convince the American people that the recession is really over, there are still very few people who believe an economic boom is just ahead.

A significant number of people feel that things may well get much worse, and most Americans seem to expect the economy to sputter for the foreseeable future.

Even if growth does increase, it appears that major economic challenges are far from over.

More importantly even than financial impact of hard economic times is the significantly negative impact on the family.

Because of this, today I want to recommend that everyone read a truly important article written by Don Peck in The Atlantic: “How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America.”.

I have read and re-read this article a number of times since I first saw it in March, and I am learning something more each time. I urge you to take time to read it thoroughly.

While you read it, consider at least four themes:

1. The challenges of fixing the economy, and the great need to re-incentivize innovation and entrepreneurs.
2. Why are we choosing to increase taxes and regulations on small business instead of opening the economy and giving them a chance to put American initiative to work?
3. The impact of high unemployment on the family, including the restriction of the roles of husbands, fathers, wives and mothers.
4. The impact on youth.

Finally, I am still trying to figure out the ramifications of one major point in the article, that the economic downturn is altering our culture into a “matriarchal society.”

I’m all for equality, but is a matriarchal society a good thing or a bad thing? What exactly is it, and what will it look like? I think this is a vital trend that we all need to think about and discuss.

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Oliver DeMille is the founder and former president of George Wythe University, a co-founder of the Center for Social Leadership, and a co-creator of TJEd Online.

He is the author of A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the 21st Century, and The Coming Aristocracy: Education & the Future of Freedom.

Oliver is dedicated to promoting freedom through leadership education. He and his wife Rachel are raising their eight children in Cedar City, Utah.

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Note from CSL: In The Coming Aristocracy, Oliver DeMille lists networking marketing as one manifestation of “mini-factories.” In this article, network marketer Orrin Woodward describes how to be successful at network marketing specifically, though the principles apply to any entrepreneur, mini-factory builder, and aspiring social leader.

Links throughout are for informational purposes and do not represent specific endorsements from CSL of companies or products.

 
IN A HOME TOO CRAMPED FOR OUR GROWING FAMILY, in a relationship where neither of us understood the other, in a time of increasing responsibilities and decreasing hope, in a desperate move to keep my baseball cards, my wife Laurie and I started our networking business.

Can there be a more bizarre beginning to a destiny-changing day?

Your story is different in the details, but alike in the life-changing opportunity presented to you.

Networking provides people the opportunity to take control of their futures and no longer swim with the current of the times.

There are only 3 steps to master to accomplish nearly any goal or dream that you can imagine through the power of networking:

1. Define
2. Learn
3. Do

Define

Life is not always a bowl of cherries as it pulls us in so many directions, requiring more than we would give in three lifetimes, forcing us to clearly define what we want to accomplish with the time God has given us.

Clearly defining your objectives, narrowing your field of vision to the critical few, painstakingly visualizing, repetitively experiencing in your mind, and developing your game plan are essential features of all successful lives.

DO NOT WORK THE BUSINESS, BUT CHASE YOUR DREAM THROUGH THE BUSINESS!!

Businesses are not built with an employee mentality, but with an ownership mentality (affiliate link), meaning, to do everything with a specific intent.

Why do you go out night after night to build this business? You didn’t have a dream as a young child to build a community did you?

The business is just the vehicle to accomplish your dreams, just as you buy a drill if you need a hole.

No one buys a drill because they have always dreamed of owning a drill. A drill is the specific tool used to get the specific hole you need.

Networking is the specific tool to give you the time and money to get your dreams.

When you know what you want, learning and doing become the necessary steps to achieve what you desire.

If you do not take the time to clearly define why you are in business, then you are setting yourself up to fail.

Why share the product, why show the plan, why start the process, if you have no reason to?

If you are not showing the plan 15 times a month, it’s not because you are lazy, it’s not because you are loser, it’s not because you are incapable, it’s only because you lack focus by not beginning with the end in mind.

• Where would you live if you could live anywhere?
• Who would you choose for neighbors?
• What car would you drive?
• What charities would you support?
• What vacations would you take?
• What random acts of kindness would you do?

It must be defined, imagined, and experienced mentally before it will happen physically.

Learn

Learning is one of the most natural things that we do as human beings. Anyone with children has experienced the endless questions that your kids will ask you as they seek to learn.

“But daddy, why is the sky blue? Why do we drive on the right side of the road? How do our brains see the pictures from our eyes?”

We are born hungry to learn, but society quenches this hunger through ridicule and scorn.

Networking has reversed societies rules and created a culture that is hungry to learn. No one is above learning and the quicker you learn, the quicker you will apply, the quicker you will have.

Learning is not a part-time hobby, not a full-time job, but a lifetime of joy.

Have you experienced the joy of learning lately? Are you listening and learning from CD’s and mentors’ advice? Are you reading books, brochures etc?

Are you pounding through the information from the best of the best?

If you’re not, perhaps you need to revisit your dream.

Do

Making contacts, picking up the phone, showing the plan, talking in front of people, were some of the most fearful things that I had to overcome.

In fact, the only thing that helped me get over my unbelievable shyness and corresponding fears was the power of my dreams.

It makes me want to gag when I hear people say, “Well you have to be a certain type of person to build a network,” assuming that you are born that way.

Yes, you have to be a winner to build a network, but anyone can be a winner with the three steps that we are covering.

Winning is simple, but it isn’t easy because you must swim against the current.

It you want to win, then you must Define your win, Learn how to win and then JUST DO IT! No guts, no glory!

Are you going to let the negative thoughts of others deny you from the destiny you desire?

Laurie and I decided to follow our dreams, not our dreads and it made all the difference.

Are you dreaming, learning and doing or dreading, lying, and dying?

The choice you make weaves the strands of your destiny. Your posterity will either be blessed by your courage or cursed by your cowardice.

Choose wisely.

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Orrin Woodward is the co-founder of Team, a leadership development and training company, and the New York Times best-selling co-author of Launching a Leadership Revolution.

Named by the International Association of Business as a Top 10 Leadership Guru, he is dedicated to building leaders and entrepreneurs and promoting freedom and prosperity.

Orrin blogs regularly at Orrin Woodward. He lives in Port St. Lucie, Florida with his wife and four children.

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Anyone who can see and apply the truth beyond the myths will prosper, even under adverse economic factors.

The following are ten financial myths—overcome these and you’ll be primed to thrive in spite of any impending recession or depression.

1. The Finite Pie

Economists and popular culture teach us that all resources are scarce and limited. Therefore, if you want something for yourself, you’ll have to take it from someone else.

This myth is especially prevalent in economic downturns when people experience temporary conditions of scarcity.

The reality is that there are plenty of resources to go around, and that human innovation results in unlimited ways to meet human needs.

We can prosper through cooperation, rather than through win-lose competition.

2. You’re In It For the Long Haul

The road to wealth is to lock up your money in retirement accounts for thirty years and build your net worth, right?

Wrong.

The reality is that the traditional “long-haul” approach is an extremely risky and dependent form of investing.

The rich maintain more control over their assets and put their money into projects over which they have the ability to manage risk, that are collateralized or insured, and that produce cash flow.

Most importantly, they know how their investment creates value for others, as opposed to throwing money into things solely to make money.

3. It’s All About the Numbers

We’ve been trained by the financial industry to make decisions based on numbers on paper, as if prosperity can be reduced to and quantified by math.

People often choose advisors based on which advisor shows them the best projected scenario.

The reality is that wealth is more a function of doing what you love and creating value, rather than the numbers in your investment accounts.

Of course, having financial resources aids in living our passions and in creating value, but to prosper you must look beyond the numbers and see your financial decisions within the context of your multi-dimensional life.

Numbers must support your passion, not detract from it as so often occurs.

4. Financial Security

Financial freedom is often difficult to find because people sell out to false security in the form of government and corporate benefits.

The myth of financial security would have us believe that we’re entitled to a good job in a “secure” corporation with health care benefits.

The reality is that this entitlement mentality is the enemy of prosperity.

Your suffering during hard economic times will be directly proportionate to the degree to which you feel entitled to “security” and benefits from any person or institution.

You’re entitled to the fruits of your own labor and ingenuity—nothing more or less.

Don’t abdicate your responsibility to prosper to others. Take full responsibility for your money and your life and you’ll find freedom, as well as true security.

5. Money Is Power

“If only our schools had more money, then American education would improve.” “If only I had more money, then I would be happy.” “Money is the root of all evil.”

You’ve heard these right?

It’s as if little green pieces of paper somehow have intrinsic power to erect buildings, create computers, inspire students to read, make people happy, or worse, to corrupt people.

The reality is that money has no intrinsic value whatsoever. People have intrinsic value and money is nothing but a representation of stored value.

The more value you provide for others, the more currency will flow into your life. Focus on serving others, rather than on money, and money will flow to you naturally.

6. High Risk = High Returns

Financial institutions have genius marketing strategies to get ordinary Americans to assume their risks. They’ve convinced us to take on risk in the name of high returns—and they have the gall to label this as “investing.”

The reality is that anyone who increases their risk in the hopes of getting higher returns is a gambler, not an investor.

The way to increase your chance of winning is to increase your chance of winning—in other words, managing your risk is key to keeping your money and getting good returns.

7. Self-Insurance

The myth is that insurance is but a necessary evil, a drain on your resources, and therefore you should spend as little on it as possible.

In fact, many teach that once you’ve built enough assets you can drop insurance coverage because you’re “self-insured.”

The reality is that, when understood, insurance decreases your risk and increases your productivity.

Furthermore, there’s no such thing as “self-insurance”—you’re either insured or you’re not. The more assets you have the more insurance you should have.

Self-insurance results in stagnant assets; full insurance coverage unlocks the productive capability of our resources.

8. Avoid Debt Like the Plague

We’re taught to “avoid debt like the plague.” The problem with this advice is misconceptions regarding the definition of debt—people think that debt is any form of borrowed money.

The reality is that debt is having liabilities that exceed assets. In other words, a person with a mortgage of $200,000 on a home worth $300,000 has zero debt and in fact has $100,000 of equity, which is the opposite of debt. The mortgage is a liability, but it is not debt.

Why does it matter? Quite simply, when a person can learn principle-based, debt-free forms of borrowing and lending their productivity can be unleashed in unprecedented ways.

For example, they can get a business loan to start a business, all without going into debt according to the correct definition.

9. A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned

While it’s important to be wise stewards of our resources and save money when appropriate, the myth is that price is the most important factor in our purchasing decisions. Furthermore, we’re taught that the road to wealth is to decrease expenses.

The reality is that price is a small concern relative to value, and that by focusing on value we save more money in the long run than when price determines our decisions.

When buying, don’t just ask, “How much does it cost?”, but also ask such questions as, “Is this what I really want?” “Does it do everything I need it to do?” “How long will it last?”

Increasing productivity leads to far great wealth than does decreasing expenses and “penny-pinching.”

10. “I have no control over the economy.”

The myth of futility leads to internal depression in the face of external, economic depressions. It makes us feel like since there’s nothing we can do to influence the economy, then we’re just doomed to suffer along with everyone else.

The reality is that while national economic forces do impact you, you still have control over your prosperity.

It’s a myth that the Great Depression was a time of suffering for all Americans; for many it was a time of great prosperity.

James Gregory, Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, says that,

“[During the Depression] about a third of the population suffered unemployment and difficulty. About a third of the population maintained their standard of living, and another third of the population did better in the course of the 1930’s than they had done before.”

The question is, which third will you be in during the current economic downturn?

Will you wallow in poverty, thinking that you have little control, will you simply maintain your current standard of living, or will you seize the opportunity to prosper?

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Garrett Gunderson is an entrepreneur, financial coach, the founder of Freedom FastTrack, and the primary author of the New York Times bestseller Killing Sacred Cows: Overcoming the Financial Myths that are Destroying Your Prosperity.

Garrett loves inspiring others to turn their potential into production. He has dedicated his life to living and teaching a unique concept known as Soul Purpose that reveals how anyone can live a more prosperous and rewarding life.

As a finance and business productivity coach, Garrett instructs both large and small groups of business owners and financial service professionals nationwide.

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Look at the picture above. Someone could have easily gone and bought a stamp and done it for themselves.

What makes this really funny, but also sad, is the nickel at the bottom right corner. If you look closely and read the writing it says, “.05 cents for your trouble.”

Wow! What a tip! Let’s think about this for a minute. To buy stamp, remove the tape, do something with the envelope to fix it — that’s only worth five cents?

Nonetheless, we do these kinds of things all the times as human beings. Wanting someone else to fix us, give us answers, and show us the way.

Now I want to be clear, that I’m not saying we don’t ever go to others for answers or help. I’m the biggest supporter of group collaboration, learning from others, and mentors.

But if we always look to others for our help we miss one of the greatest opportunities available.

What is it? Growth. When we have to stretch we become bigger and better than we are now. We experience the Power of Independence.

So next time you don’t know the answer or need to ask for some help, ask yourself if you can figure it out on your own.

If you do, you’ll grow. And you’ll be glad you did.

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Carl Woolston is a business and marketing consultant with KGaps Consulting, a co-creator of the proprietary marketing methodology “Hub Mentality,”, and a co-founder of The Center for Social Leadership.

His expertise includes network development, marketing, web strategy development, lead creation, and lead capture strategies.

He and his wife Christy are raising their six rambunctious children in Bountiful, Utah.

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Consistently performing the actions that bring the best results should be the focus of any business venture.

To sit on these merits and not innovate can easily become the poison that causes businesses to suffer.

On the other end of the spectrum, to focus too much on innovation can cause chaos and lack of profitability.

In his classic business book Good to Great, Jim Collins tells the story of how Circuit City used both innovation and systemization in a self-reinforcing cycle to become a great company.

In 1973, Alan Wurtzel inherited the CEO position for Circuit City from his father. The company was close to bankruptcy.

Burdened by debt, in 1974 the company began a series of closely-monitored innovations after rebuilding the executive team.

They first experimented with warehouse showrooms. In 1976 they experimented with selling consumer electronics in the warehouse showroom format, and in 1977 the concept transformed into the first Circuit City store.

When this format proved to be successful, they began converting all their stores and by 1982 they had committed fully to the concept.

As they made the shift over the next five years, they generated the highest total shareholder returns of any company on the New York Stock Exchange.

Drawing lessons from Circuit City, we find the following guidelines for managing the dynamic between innovation and systems:

1. Dedication to truth.

When ego runs a company, truth goes out the window. Profitable, lasting companies are dedicated to uncovering and aligning with truth.

What is truth in business? Results. More precisely, results based on your stated goals and parameters.

This means that you need flawless data tracking systems in order to find truth in the first place.

2. Consistent, incremental change is better than massive, chaotic change.

Dramatic revolution always appeals to human nature, but wisdom dictates that we take small steps, measure the results, and build on them.

The parable of the tortoise and the hare is highly applicable here.

3. Stay in the trenches.

It took Circuit City a decade of hard work before receiving media recognition or seeing dramatic results. But patience and persistence won the day.

You have to be willing stay on course long enough to see results.

Jim Collins calls this the “flywheel” principle. He writes:

“Picture a huge, heavy flywheel — a massive metal disk mounted horizontally on an axle, about 30 feet in diameter, 2 feet thick, and weighing about 5,000 pounds. Now imagine that your task is to get the flywheel rotating on the axle as fast and long as possible.”

Initially, it takes great effort. You strain and struggle to get it to turn one time around in two or three hours. But you keep at it, and it slowly picks up momentum.

“Then, at some point–breakthrough! The momentum of the thing kicks in in your favor, hurling the flywheel forward, turn after turn…whoosh!…its own heavy weight working for you. You’re pushing no harder than during the first rotation, but the flywheel goes faster and faster. Each turn…builds upon work done earlier, compounding your investment of effort.”

Most individuals and companies are willing to put forth the sustained effort required to kick the flywheel effect into gear.

Every business wants to find itself where cash flow and success are coming, almost without effort. The price for the painful birth of a system has already been realized.

The balancing act, then, is to do what is working and continually innovate to meet your customers at the current level of their need.

Dedicate yourself to truth. Set up tracking systems and measure your progress. Discover what works and what doesn’t. Build on what works incrementally.

Then, stay in the trenches and watch your business take off…

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Carl Woolston is a business and marketing consultant with KGaps Consulting, a co-creator of the proprietary marketing methodology “Hub Mentality,”, and a co-founder of The Center for Social Leadership.

His expertise includes network development, marketing, web strategy development, lead creation, and lead capture strategies.

He and his wife Christy are raising their six rambunctious children in Bountiful, Utah.

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Email: carl [at] kgaps [dot] com

Opportunity

John James Ingalls

Master of human destinies am I;
Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait.
Cities and fields I walk. I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and, passing by
Hovel and mart and palace, soon or late,
I knock unbidden once at every gate.
If sleeping, wake; if feasting, rise, before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me reach every state
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who hesitate
Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
Seek me in vain, and uselessly implore.
I answer not, and I return no more.

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As we become aware of what we are thinking and begin to recognize that our attitudes and actions follow thought, we can begin to make better choices about what we “feed” our thoughts.

“You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.” -James Allen

Once our thoughts and actions become more harnessed, our direction becomes one of strategy instead of randomness.

The direction that we start to move becomes one that bears fruit — although not always immediately, depending on the size of the objective and what we are working toward.

“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes

Inevitably we will hit walls as we work in this strategic direction. These walls often seem impenetrable, but only because we haven’t found the door in the wall.

A door always exists! Sometimes, when we think that we have found an open door it closes, but another will always open.

Unfortunately, this where many people fail. They know what they want, they work toward it, and then when it seems impossible, they quit.

“I have failed many times, and that’s why I am a success.” -Michael Jordan

It took Thomas Edison more than 2,000 experiments to produce a light bulb that would work. When asked by a reporter how it felt to fail so many times, Edison responded,

“I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2,000-step process.”

The most successful people make it through, over, or under barriers to success by feeding their thoughts positive, uplifting, empowering, and intelligent material.

What are you feeding your thoughts?

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Carl Woolston is a business and marketing consultant with KGaps Consulting, a co-creator of the proprietary marketing methodology “Hub Mentality,”, and a co-founder of The Center for Social Leadership.

His expertise includes network development, marketing, web strategy development, lead creation, and lead capture strategies.

He and his wife Christy are raising their six rambunctious children in Bountiful, Utah.

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Solutions Old and New

The anti-Federalist solutions for these problems may well have helped. They proposed that the people amend the Constitution, specifically in the following ways:

1. The Bill of Rights would include the requirement that juries consist of local peers who know the accused and can protect citizens from government.
2. Treaties would require full debate in and passage by Congress—just like laws.
3. Any decision by the Supreme Court could be overridden by a majority of the States.

How effective these amendments would have been is debatable.

But the answer may be found in another proposed anti-Federalist amendment which actually did get passed.

To counter the danger of huge expenditures and taxes by the Executive Branch, loss of power from the House to the Presidency, and transfer of powers from the States to the federal government, the anti-Federalists wanted an amendment clearly stating that all power not specifically given by the Constitution to the federal government would be retained by the states.

The anti-Federalists got their way in the ratification of the Tenth Amendment:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited to it by the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”

Unfortunately, these were weakened by Court cases between 1803 and 1820, and later by treaties adopted between 1944 and 2001.

We the People

It turns out that Constitutional limits and language are only guaranteed to last as long as the people are vigilantly involved.

No matter what the Constitution says, it won’t endure if the people don’t closely read it and demand that it be followed.

In this sense they are the fourth branch of government: The Overseers.

When the people stop requiring officials and experts to adhere to the Constitution, those in power alter the Constitution, redefine its precepts, and sometimes mutually agree upon a revisionist and opportunistic definition of its language.

The people are left out of the decision, and their freedoms decrease.

At times, as designed, constitutional checks and balances keep one branch from usurping power even if the people aren’t involved.

But the greater danger occurs when a collusion of branches agree in taking away power from the states or the people (this happens too often, especially since Butler v. the United States in 1936).

Arguably the most important document for freedom ever created by mankind was established and ratified by those who supported the U.S. Constitution.

The second deepest freedom analysis of government was provided by their opponents, the anti-Federalists.

This second group saw that whatever a Constitution says, as important as it certainly is, the people simply must stay actively involved or they will inevitably see their freedoms decline.

The Producer Perspective

The fact that both groups came from a society of owners and producers is neither surprising nor insignificant.

Owners value freedom over security, see the most decorated experts and celebrities as merely other citizens, and see their own role as citizen as vital to society.

Producers think in terms of protecting society’s freedoms, and they simply don’t believe this responsibility can ever be delegated or ignored.

Successful ownership, farming, and entrepreneurship are all about keeping track of all the details; taking action whenever it is needed to achieve the desired results; listening to the counsel of experts and authorities—and then leading by making the best decisions even if they goes against expert advice; and building effective teams that work together without depending too much on those at the top.

People trained and experienced in such skills are truly competent in handling and preserving freedom.

What we need in our day is not necessarily more specific proposals from the Federalists or anti-Federalists.

Rather, we need a return to the producer-entrepreneurial style of thinking and expertise that founded and built the freest nation in history.

If we want a society of freedom that lasts and prospers, we must as citizens become talented and practiced in the arts of freedom.

America was created on the basis of freedom, and until we choose to become a citizenry steeped in freedom principles and actively involved in their promotion, freedom will not likely increase.

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Like Gladstone, I believe the U.S. Constitution to be “the greatest work ever struck off by the mind and purpose of man.”

Even though it had its flaws—especially slavery—it actually provided for the fixing of these flaws.

The U.S. Constitution, both directly and indirectly, is responsible for the freedom of more people than any other government document in the world’s history.

That said, the anti-Federalists had a point. In fact, they had several.

They were mistaken to oppose ratification of the Constitution, but we would be unwise not to listen to the concerns voiced through their loyal opposition.

They were right about some critical details. In fact, we are dealing with exactly these concerns today.

Entrepreneurs Change the Debate

The brilliance of both sides of the Constitution debate—the Federalists and the anti-Federalists—is an example of how the producer culture and entrepreneurial mindset accomplish the highest quality in citizen involvement—regardless of party politics.

Even in the midst of deeply divided partisan battles, the Federalists and anti-Federalists produced a level of depth, detail, nuance, and excellence in citizen debate that is perhaps unsurpassed either before their time or since.

Today’s citizen dialogue seldom measures up. This is a direct result of that generation’s lifestyle of entrepreneurship, producer-focused education, ownership, initiative, and enterprising mindset.

When a nation of entrepreneurs debates on topics of freedom and leadership, the quality is deeper and richer than when lower classes are uninvolved (as in 1780s Britain) or when most citizen-employees defer to the experts (today’s America).

Anti-Federalist Predictions

The anti-Federalists scrutinized the U.S. Constitution and the federalist papers, and, based on the structures of government, they looked ahead and warned of some of our biggest problems.

They also, in most cases, recommended solutions. We need to heed their words.

What are these challenges, and what can we do about them? To answer both questions, consider six issues the anti-Federalists warned of more than two hundred years ago:

1. The executive branch will increase influence over the national budget.
2. National expenditures will increase and eventually bankrupt the nation.
3. Power will flow consistently away from the states.
4. The courts will eventually have too much power.
5. Justice will be lost as government grows.
6. The treaty power will be abused.

To be continued…

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Oliver DeMille is the founder and former president of George Wythe University, a co-founder of the Center for Social Leadership, and a co-creator of TJEd Online.

He is the author of A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the 21st Century, and The Coming Aristocracy: Education & the Future of Freedom.

Oliver is dedicated to promoting freedom through leadership education. He and his wife Rachel are raising their eight children in Cedar City, Utah.

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