FLAHR in, the name of a gold coin first made in Florence in the 1200's. The name comes from the Latin word for flower. The florin bore the imprint of a lily on one side, and the figure of Saint John the Baptist on the other side. The first English florin was issued as a six-shilling gold coin in the reign of Edward III (1327-1377). A Silver English florin worth two shillings was first coined in 1849.
[The World Book Encyclopedia]
A USA Silver ten cent coin, bore the imprint of a lily on one side, and the figure of Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA Pres. 1933-1945) on the other side (Dime).
Enjoying Hunting and Fishing, Sarah Palin and husband Todd, have just hit the big time in the World's spotlight.Miss Alaska Contest, prepared Sarah Palin for the job of representing Alaska on the World Stage. If winning, Miss Alaska, and then on to winning Miss USA, requires being prepared to represent THE USA on the World Stage. And now, not only is she prepared, but experienced,
as the Chief Executive of The State of Alaska.
Sarah Palin, Governor of the State of Alaska.
If she can run a small country, budget, meeting payroll, making Executive decisions, fighting corruption and crime, why not bring her experience to the Office of the Vice Presidency of the USA?
John McCain has 4 years ( if and when elected) for Mrs. Palin to learn to run 50 small countries, and territories.
Sarah Palin is now ready to represent THE USA on the World Stage.
It serves always to distract the public councils and feeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.
It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration to confine themselves with in their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."
…George Washington’s Farewell Address…
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