[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.

[DameAutour]

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

What leads to socialism is when the People start getting the ability to vote themselves money from the public coffers, as Ben Franklin warned. But the People wanting to live in a moral and religious society, and wanting the laws to reflect morality, these are natural, necessary and right.