[DameAutour]

So you trust the federal government to make these logical judgments? I don't.

Conservatives trust "We the People" (i.e. a moral society), since "We the People" ARE supposed to be the government.

[lainie]

"We the People" ARE supposed to be the government.

That's one of the biggest problems these days: it's supposed to be, but isn't anymore.

[headsonpikes]

Conservatives trust "We the People" (i.e. a moral society), since "We the People" ARE supposed to be the government.

That is exactly the American Liberal rationale for supporting the changes wrought by FDR in the American State through the New Deal.

The delusion that the People can do no wrong is fatal to a Constitutional republic, imho, and leads only to socialism.