The word drives me crazy. Liberals love it, but only in a single context. When it is proposed in any other area, they are very much opposed to choice.
Where liberals love choice:

Whether or not you’d like to murder your unborn children.

Where liberals hate choice:

Where to send your kids to school.
How to spend your money.
What legal [...]

The Utility of the Union in Respect to Commercial Relations and a Navy
For the Independent Journal.
Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
THE importance of the Union, in a commercial light, is one of those points about which there is least room to entertain a difference of opinion, and which has, in fact, [...]

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If that doesn’t [...]

The Same Subject Continued
(The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection)
From the New York Packet.
Friday, November 23, 1787.
James Madison
To the People of the State of New York:
AMONG the numerous advantages promised by a wellconstructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of faction. [...]

The Union as a Safeguard Against Domestic Faction and Insurrection
For the Independent Journal.
Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
A FIRM Union will be of the utmost moment to the peace and liberty of the States, as a barrier against domestic faction and insurrection. It is impossible to read the history of the [...]

The Consequences of Hostilities Between the States
From the New York Packet.
Tuesday, November 20, 1787.
Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
ASSUMING it therefore as an established truth that the several States, in case of disunion, or such combinations of them as might happen to be formed out of the wreck of the general [...]

The Same Subject Continued
(Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States)
For the Independent Journal.
Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
IT IS sometimes asked, with an air of seeming triumph, what inducements could the States have, if disunited, to make war upon each other? It would be a full answer to this question to [...]

Concerning Dangers from Dissensions Between the States
For the Independent Journal.
Alexander Hamilton
To the People of the State of New York:
THE three last numbers of this paper have been dedicated to an enumeration of the dangers to which we should be exposed, in a state of disunion, from the arms and arts of foreign nations. I shall [...]

The Same Subject Continued
(Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence)
For the Independent Journal.
John Jay
To the People of the State of New York:
QUEEN ANNE, in her letter of the 1st July, 1706, to the Scotch Parliament, makes some observations on the importance of the UNION then forming between England and Scotland, which merit our attention. I [...]

The Same Subject Continued
(Concerning Dangers From Foreign Force and Influence)
For the Independent Journal.
John Jay
To the People of the State of New York:
MY LAST paper assigned several reasons why the safety of the people would be best secured by union against the danger it may be exposed to by JUST causes of war given to other [...]