If I ever run out of toilet paper...
...I promise I'll first come to you for your socialist opinion on the Constitution to alleviate that issue, ok?
The Federalist No. 45: Oops!
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If I ever run out of toilet paper...
...I promise I'll first come to you for your socialist opinion on the Constitution to alleviate that issue, ok?
coachdb18
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The arrogance of stating he's so much smarter than a group of men who started the greatest nation of all time should earn Oreo some kind of prize for something or other, don't you think?
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Stating that the Founding Fathers got things wrong doesn't mean we think we're smarter than they were. It means we think that a bunch of farmers to whom a WMD was a cannon couldn't possibly have known that we'd live in a world where everybody has conversations with people thousands of miles away and where a vehicle could kill three thousand people and launch a war on another continent.
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The principles they outlined were relevant to any and all times and situations. They were smart enough to create a country they could not be a part of but for their human lifetimes, but their product would last the test of time for their children, and their childrens children. The US Constitution, and the United States they created, are based in concepts and principals of human rights, and the rights of those people to be protected as much from their government as by it. That will be true, even in the twenty third and twenty fourth centuries, where it will still find relevance.
Decentralization ain't. France has a unitary state, Germany has a federal state -- France is just as good a republic as Germany.
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France has a nasty little habit of puffing itself up, just before it goes begging for help. It's economic collapse is a good possibility, especially true now that it has snubbed its nose at austerity, and will likely get very pissed at Germany. It's the Three Little Pigs, and France continues to invest heavily in sticks.
None of which has the least thing to do with the merits of a unitary vs. a federal state.
Better "socialist" than "originalist."
That is one of the most stupid attempts to show wisdom that I have ever seen. No ORF, you simply don't know what you're talking about.
You are incredibly stupid and don't know what you're talking about, if you can seriously say something like, "The constitutional government of the USA is not meant to rule the people. It is meant to serve the people." Every government is meant to rule its people. That's what a government is, an organization that governs.
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And the reason we can't be both is? There is nothing wrong with the states agreeing to a national policy and with that consent the federal government acts. How thrilled are you with all the wars the feds have led us into in the last 50 years. We have the war powers act but it is ignored by all parties.
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Do you truly believe that or are you just stirring the pot?
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