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Democracy Is For The Rich
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04-03-2007, 09:38 PM
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Democracy Is For The Rich
Quote:Also talk about taxes and how to justly distribute them - was a time when taxes either didn't exist here or where virtually nil, and even then congress knew it's place and that it didn't have the power or right to spend any money except within strict predefined boundaries. The problem is that we're a nanny state, and the author wants us to be a friendlier, softer nanny state. US gov (a representative constitutional republic) was not designed to provide all of the things people our asking it to. Child and health care for example. Our Constitution does not grant rights to anyone. The U.S. Constitution implicitly recognized the principle that Thomas Jefferson had enunciated in the Declaration of Independence that man has been endowed with certain fundamental rights that preexist government; life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The purpose of government, the Declaration said, is to protect the exercise of these rights. Thus, the cornerstone of the American political system is that government is not the source of peoples rights but simply the entity charged with protecting the exercise of those rights. While our Constitution does not give people rights, it does delineate the powers of the federal government. The idea was that if the Constitution did not grant a certain power, then the federal government was prohibited from exercising it. Liberty entails every persons right to live his life without being coerced to serve another. All the extras that people are asking for and in some cases demanding from gov. forces one person to work for or serve another person. Quote:James Madison, known as the father of the U.S. Constitution, wrote in "Essay #10" of The Federalist Papers: "... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." America is a Constitutional Republic . . . NOT a Democracy By Daneen G. Peterson, Ph.D. http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com...cracy.html &Alice laughed, &There's no use trying,& she said: &one can't believe impossible things.& &I daresay you haven't had much practice,& said the Queen. &When I was your age I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.& - Lewis Carroll &Things are seldom as they seem ... Skim milk masquerades as cream.& - Gilbert and Sullivan (Pinafore) At NASA, it really is rocket science, and the decision makers really are rocket scientists. But a body of research that is getting more and more attention points to the ways that smart people working collectively can be dumber than the sum of their parts. .. Irwin Janis? &Groupthink:& is a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' striving for unanimity override realistic appraisals ? It is the triumph of concurrence over good sense, and authority over expertise.& -John Schwartz & Matthew L. Wade |
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Democracy Is For The Rich - mothandrust - 03-31-2007, 04:52 AM
Democracy Is For The Rich - Henry - 03-31-2007, 05:12 AM
Democracy Is For The Rich - Moriani - 03-31-2007, 07:56 PM
Democracy Is For The Rich - mothandrust - 03-31-2007, 08:13 PM
Democracy Is For The Rich - mothandrust - 03-31-2007, 09:20 PM
Democracy Is For The Rich - Dr.Druid - 04-01-2007, 01:24 AM
Democracy Is For The Rich - nonya - 04-03-2007, 02:09 AM
Democracy Is For The Rich - jack - 04-03-2007 09:38 PM
Democracy Is For The Rich - nonya - 04-03-2007, 11:19 PM
Democracy Is For The Rich - Phil999 - 04-04-2007, 01:46 AM
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