Posted on 09/22/2020 5:29:55 AM PDT by Kaslin
The House of Representative, which was created to statistically represent the common landless citizens, not just the rich estate-owners (for which the Senate was created), two Senators per state, regardless of the state's population. The House was founded on choosing representatives for them demographically.
Pretty plain to me. This also afforded the plurality of the voters to choose their Senators, also, but it was the rich people who influenced their choice in the primaries.
The Constitution provides a governmental bicameral legislature of representatives, a republic, elected by ALL the people, not merely the landed gentry. What the Constitution does NOT provide is a mobocracy (democracy) in which a plurality of the populace decides the law that will be in effect not according to principle, but according to the prevalent (and often false)changing mood of the voters. We do NOT have a democracy.
We have a republic whose representatives are chosen by electors who are meant to reflect at stipulated times the will of the people in each governmental area. That is a democratic republic, a democratically chosen slate of representatives whose term is limited.
Our real problem, as Thomas Jefferson pointed out, is an influential class of judges who are NOT chosen democratically, whose term in limited only by death of the judge or his/her choice to retire, and who form an oligarchy whose influence cannot be disciplined.
At the current time, it is the Democrat Party that wants to get rid of the system of electors, who can, are meant to, and should prevent a mobocracy from taking over the country. It is they who keep us faithful to being a republic., and hence are favored by Republicans.
IN AMERICA...from whence is the manner in which that slate of representatives chosen prescribed?
What precedes all of the things you're going on and on about?
You keep pushing the cart by hand instead of hooking up the horse that belongs at the front of the cart.
What reigns in a democratic republic? What holds them to account?
Or does the democratic republic you claim America is have no constraints?
It’s called being two-faced. Nice on the surface, ugly and evil on the inside. Her agenda showed her true face.
with people I really like, I never argue/discuss politics, religion or money. It’s a good practice and I value relationships over opinions.
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