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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
Ernest
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« on: January 26, 2021, 04:14:21 PM »

Comes out as HP on balance. Did some good stuff on civil service reform and opposed imperialism, but his economic policies were bad overall and he was also pretty reactionary on social issues, especially his staunch opposition to women's sufferage to the very end.

You know what he appointed two segregationist to SCOTUS, Melvin Fuller and Edward D White that affirmed Pleasy v Ferguson, Segregation laws

Oh no! They weren't perfect! While Fuller was responsible for Pleasy, he also authored Gonzales v. Williams, which affirmed that Porto Ricans were U.S. nationals (tho not necessarily U.S. citizens) by being citizens of an unincorporated U.S. territory. (It wasn't until the 1917 Jones–Shafroth Act that Porto Ricans automatically gained U.S. citizenship.) White authored the opinion in Guinn that struck down grandfather clauses used to make it easier for whites to vote by exempting them from the stringent requirements that were applied to non-whites.
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2021, 07:14:03 PM »

Good on foreign policy, trade, currency, and alcohol laws, bad on women’s suffrage.

Never would have pegged you as the gold standard type
Wouldn’t the silver standard have caused inflation?

Only because silver coins were overvalued.  If we had switched to a silver standard with larger silver coins, then that wouldn't have necessarily been inflationary.
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True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)
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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2021, 08:48:50 AM »

Good on foreign policy, trade, currency, and alcohol laws, bad on women’s suffrage.

Never would have pegged you as the gold standard type
Wouldn’t the silver standard have caused inflation?
"A little inflation now and then is a good thing."

Except switching in the manner proposed by silver advocates at the time would have been a large amount of one-time inflation.
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