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...setting a ceiling on expenditures without even investigating the needs which the Bureau of the Budget had carefully calculated. After having to pass supplementary bills amounting to six billion dollars over the ceiling, Congress dropped the Committee. Lipscomb's proposed committee, however, would not aim at writing an a priori budget. It would simply determine the best fiscal policy by correlating the reports of the various committees on revenue, appropriations, and the economy. Once having established a policy, it would advise the other committees about the propriety of specific appropriations in a planned economy...
Since this is not a matter of a legal tradition (as in property law) nor of a constitutional arrangement which might be other than it is (as in the provisions for legislation) but of an a priori principle intrinsic to any free society, the clue to what the Amendment means will have to come from an understanding of what it must mean as a constitutional principle of a free society. Thus, following Dean Griswold, we must inquire concerning its moral basis, i.e., its place in the realization of freedom and its connection with the moral respect which is the foundation...
...gravitation (i.e., relativity) is the place to start when trying to explain the universe, but he admits that he does not yet have the whole answer. No one has found an experimental method of proving his unified theory. "Nevertheless," he says hopefully, "I consider it unjustified to assert, a priori, that such a theory is unable to cope with the atomistic character of energy...
...merely idealizing envy . . . If I am to consider contributions they vary infinitely-all that any man contributes is giving a direction to force. The architect does it on a larger scale than the bricklayer who only sees that a brick is laid level. I know no a priori reason why he should not have a greater reward. Kant did it on a larger scale than the architect . . . Some kind of despotism is at the bottom of the seeking for change. I don't care to boss my neighbors . . . even when, as frequently, I think their wishes more or less...
...percent whose knowledge of sex was more empirical than a priori, only 40 percent, or 19.6 percent of the total, admitted indulging more than once or twice. The remaining 60 percent agreed it wasn't habit-forming...