In this thirty-second episode of Learned Hands, the Official Podcast of the Westerosi Bar Association, Merry & Clint ask: Is the Seven Kingdoms a Federalist System? Which has more power, a US State or a Westerosi Realm?
Our analysis this week includes:
- The Westerosi Seven Kingdoms are compared and contrasted with real-life federal and confederate systems back to antiquity.
- Your hosts have some strong words to say about James Madison, effete dork, slavery enthusiast, and the only US president to allow Canada to burn the Capitol to cinders.
- We evaluate the good-government bona fides of Aegon the Conquerer, Maegor the Cruel, Jaehaerys the Conciliator, Good Queen Alysanne, Septon Barth, and others.
- Clint gets so amped up to talk about Federalist Papers that you can hear him vibrating with sheer glee.
- Maester Merry squares off in a LAWYER FIGHT against her greatest ever foe: Maester Merry.
- Answers to your questions about federal taxes, customs, minting, and central banking!
- The return of burrito analogies to explain things like the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine, the Dormant Commerce Clause, Field Preemption, and Younger Abstention (we are sorry, this is a lot).
- We finally update on the WBA 2023 Dues Donation Drive which is ON NOW (PAY YOUR DUES)
Supplemental reading:
- Where do pay your dues
- Federalist 45, and other Federalist Papers to read at your leisure.
Cold Open and Bumpers by Jimi and Ray. Extensive audio engineering by LittleWolfBird. Intro & Outro music courtesy Sid Luscious & The Pants. Cold Open music composer Nico Maximilian, Audio source: Jamendo. None of this should be construed as legal advice OBVIOUSLY.
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