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Thursday, January 14. 2016

It’s Not Your Founding Fathers’ Republic

Myron Magnet summarizes the history of the decay of the US Constitution. Even the founders thought that might be inevitable, given their wisdom about human nature, but they did their best to provide roadblocks. Securing the blessings of liberty (from government, of course) and securing defense from exterior powers...

There is always the excuse of a reason: Security, or To Do Good.

It’s Not Your Founding Fathers’ Republic Any More - Presidents, Congresses, and courts are creating an elective despotism.

... we had better understand just what happened. There’s no single villain. As these books show, all branches of government conspired over more than a century to turn the Constitution that the Framers wrote in 1787, plus the Bill of Rights that James Madison shepherded through the first Congress in 1789 and the Fourteenth Amendment ratified in 1868, into something their authors would neither recognize nor endorse.

Posted by The Barrister in Best Essays of the Year, History, Politics at 13:44 | Comments (5) | Trackbacks (0)

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Why do you think people want an 'outsider' candidate this time around? Most true Americans can sense that loss of what the Constitution promised so many years ago. A complete rollback needs to happen soon, or the pressure will continue to build.

Holding out hope that the right person can do that. Starts with immigration, tax law, reducing government. But someone has to have the guts to do it and push hard without fear of his party not supporting him nor the press. Once the public sees they have a leader who will do what he says, the rest of Washington will have to follow or will face the boot.

At least, that is my hope.

#1 MissT on 2016-01-14 14:20 (Reply)

Dang it. I need to stop coming here. You guys are always sending me off on educational forays all over the internet. Never know how long it's going to take me to find my way out of them.

#2 Bill on 2016-01-14 16:36 (Reply)

Tis rather like a perpetual university, hey?

#2.1 jma on 2016-01-15 02:08 (Reply)

Here's an example of local German politicians taking matters into their own hands in dealing with the immigrant problem.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3399260/Angry-Bavarian-politician-sends-bus-refugees-Merkel.html

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#3 Karl Horst (Germany) on 2016-01-14 17:14 (Reply)

Here's an armed French citizen protecting his fellow citizens from attack by Muslim "refugees":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHX5jsomq_U

#4 Jim on 2016-01-14 19:24 (Reply)

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It’s Not Your Founding Fathers’ Republic