Posted on 06/21/2010 7:49:27 AM PDT by Publius
That may be true but the illness was incubated but the likes of Alexander Hamilton and John Marshal and was given a tremendous boost by Abraham Lincoln. Woodrow Wilson and FDR merely administered the coup de gras.
Of course, the adults at the convention disagreed.
Excessive taxation...what an idea.
“In making a dictator, we followed the example of the most glorious, magnanimous, and skillful nations. In great dangers, this power has been given. Rome had furnished us with an illustrious example. America found a person for that trust: she looked to Virginia for him. We gave a dictatorial power to hands that used it gloriously; and which were rendered more glorious by surrendering it up.”
If alive today, the attorney Henry would make a terrific ambulance chaser.
Patrick Henry’s two speeches at the Virginia Ratifying Convention will be covered by us around Christmas. It will receive the same respectful treatment as the Federalist and other anti-Federalist writers.
Actaully, only the States are prohibited from issuing bills of credit, or from making paper money legal tender. (Article I, section 10). Congress is not barred from doing either (see Article I, section 8, cl. 5).
The conceptual necessity of virtue in the citizenry of a constitutional republic is foreign to you.
As opposed to...reality.
Thanks for the qualifier, by the way. It's the only accurate way to put it--no one knows with 100% certainty. I happen to think it was someone else.
You like to hector me a lot about what MY plan would be, as if that's relevant to a critique of the Constitution. I believe this statement of Brutus' to be true---that some form of confederation ought to have remained in place.
You say the Constitution is the end-all, be-all---the best mankind will EVER do, right there, on that paper, conceived in Philadelphia, 1787. I say it's possible to create something better. Maybe it will never happen. But it's possible.
There are some OBVIOUS errors, which should be removed. Other problems are more complicated, but we know the current system doesn't work, e.g., the federal judiciary. Not just that it doesn't work, but that it creates much constitutional mischief. A better article 3. Specific mention of "secession", a rule one way or the other. Express delegation only. No house. Only a congress, representing the states. States hold the right of recall at any time. THEY determine the mode of their elections. etc
Brutus was clearly proven wrong.
You like to hector me a lot about what MY plan would be
If you wish to be rid of the Constitution, there must be something to take its place, and to ask is not hectoring but merely a logical question.
As for your last paragraph, brighter and better educated minds than yours considered the options.
The one house Congress is especially humorous.
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