Territorial "states" may have been created in A.D. 1948 as an alternative to the States of the Union ;

I'm told that the Supreme Court
of the United States ruled in Baker v Carr
that the federal courts were incapable
of answering a "political question".

This raises the possibility
that if a sophisticated defendant
based his defense on the presence
of a "political question," the federal
courts might be precluded from
hearing or deciding the case.

I've therefore become a
student of the concept of "political".

Political choice,
political decisions, political argument,
political doctrine are on my radar.

What follows is a Findlaw search
of the USSC (US Supreme Court)
data base for highlights of all USSC
cases that used the term "political choice".

Note that the concept of "political choice"
did not reach the USSC until A.D. 1953.

It seems odd that the concept
of "political choice" did not reach
the Supremes for the first 160 years
of our country's history.

But there is evidence (28 USC 81-131)
that suggests that a set of territorial "states"
may have been created in A.D. 1948 as an
alternative to the States of the Union.

I believe that slowly,
over the course of the next 20 years,
these "territorial states" completely supplanted
the governments of the States of the Union.

If I'm right, since A.D. 1948,
there's been a new and fundamental
"political choice" for the people
of The United States of America :

Whether they wish to transact
within a State of the Union or
"in this state" (the "territorial states").

I begin to suspect that
"political choice" may be
so intimately involved with
the the terms "choice of venue"
and "choice of law" as to be nearly synonymous
http://adask.wordpress.com/2010/06/13/political-choice/

Last week, in "Increased Efficiency
Causes Increased Economic Vulnerability,"
I introduced the idea that as a man, business
or corporation becomes more efficient, he/it
also becomes more economically vulnerable.

I argued that, paradoxically, each increase
in efficiency was derived from our "margin for error"
and as a result, the more efficient an entity became,
the more vulnerable it became to injury or destruction
caused by seemingly trivial events.

This week, I'll argue
that increased economic efficiency
also leads to increased political vulnerability-
including increased government paranoia, increased
political instability and increased political oppression.

. Our fiat currency (paper or digital "money"
without gold or silver backing that is intrinsically
worthless) was originally promoted as a device
by means of which "liquidity" could be instantly
created and managed by the government and/or
Federal Reserve.

The object was to avoid slumps in the business
cycle and increase the efficiency of our economy.

That rationale sounded great,
but the consequence of being able
to spin an endless supply of fiat dollars
into circulation has been the creation of
a governmental and private debt that's
too great to ever be repaid.

Increased
monetary efficiency has increased
our vulnerability to an economic collapse
http://adask.wordpress.com/2010/06/08/increased-economic-efficiency-causes-increased-political-vulnerability/