The United States has an intricate system of checks and balances, and a government structure based on a separation of powers, and a Bill of Rights that safeguards the rights of states and the rights of the people precisely because the greatest collection of political talent and philosophical insight ever assembled on this continent -- and maybe anywhere on this planet -- looked at the concept of government and said, "We need to make a really small cage for this thing, then be careful not to overfeed it."
We seem to have lost the care-and- feeding instructions about a century ago. We let government out of its little cage and it has been consuming everything it can lay its paws on ever since. In the last 45 years, it has been on a real binge, and in the last year and a half, it has taken bigger bites than a lot of people thought possible.
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So very true. I was thinking it would be a neat project to attempt to reconcile the many facets of our current federal government with the Constitution. Seeing that it is explicitly stated in the Constitution that the federal government is restricted the powers delegated to it by the Constitution, anything not capable of reconciliation should be voided regardless of validation for it. Otherwise, there should at least be an explicit denial of the Constitution by the federal government and let them suffer the repercussions of that. On a side note, I was thinking about our discussion on Facebook with Mr. P and his comment about "The War of Northern Aggression." I wonder if he validates that war by the emancipation of slaves, and if he realizes that the English offered to emancipate slaves that fought against the colonists and whether is believes that validated the English aggression against the colonists.
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