Good grief. Painful idiocy.
Right, just like Caesar filling the Senate with Gauls and Celts to force his insanities on the Roman Republic. I gather this professor doesn't teach history if he doesn't know how that idea turned out. Sic Semper Tyrannus, nitwit.
Can you just imagine the new President calling on sixty fat cat campaign bundlers to be his personal toadies in Congress, delivering the votes for his sweeping new programs?: "Hi there, how would you like to come to Washington and instantly become one of the most loathed people in the country?". Yet, two paragraphs later the author bemoans nine unaccountable Supreme Court judges having undue influence on the nation?!
Oh, and hey: maybe these 60 empowered and unelected Presidentially-appointed congressmen could wear special snappy uniforms and stand directly behind the President at public appearances, cheering him on as he rants and raves about his designs for the Thousand Year Plan.
This NYT opinion piece was written under the influence of marijuana, I suspect. Just ghastly. Thank God in heaven for bestowing wisdom on the Constitutional Convention to write Article V into our Constitution.
This was not the problem. The Republic had been comprehensively broken for many decades. The question was not whether it would survive or revive. It was what would replace it.
Caesar did not force "insanities" on the Republic. Pretty much all his reforms made a great deal of sense and were desparately needed. Few if any of his eventual assassins claimed they killed him because of his policies. They killed him because he was tyrannical, which he was, and was shutting them out of power.
Lots of his eventual successors did insane things, but not Julius.
The initial concept was that the People would be most directly represented by the House, the Senate would represent the interests of the several States, and the Executive branch would represent the interests of the Federal Government while providing a check to the power of the Congress via the veto. The States have been reduced to implementers of Federal Policy, bribed with the taxpayer's money.
I believe the intent was for the Federal Government to provide for the common defense, settle differences between the States, establish standard weights and measures, coin a unifying currency, and maintain a system of transferring information (the Post Office).
It really doesn't take much to update those concepts without stripping the states of power if the Federal Government does not exceed its duties.
Our current mess comes from the constant expansion in size and scope of the Federal Government, as does most of our crippling debt.
Can you just imagine the new President calling on sixty fat cat campaign bundlers to be his personal toadies in Congress, delivering the votes for his sweeping new programs?
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NYT just prepping the way for Obamarxist’s lifetime dictatorship.
The NYT wants to make voting meaningless.
They failed with every vote counting since every vote was counted.
They failed with stop the fraud since voter fraud is being attacked.
this is machiavelian to get the tyrany they desire.
(In states where the judges were voted out of office, their progressive/leftist/communist goals were expunged from the law. They hated that. They need tyrany)