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To: Dawnsblood
“There’s no more passing the buck,” he said. “The party in power is responsible for everything that goes wrong, as well as everything that goes right. Now, nobody is responsible, really.”

The US Constitution was intentionally written to prevent exactly such a concentration of power. It's worked pretty well for 225 years.

3 posted on 06/08/2008 1:00:34 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - A. Lincoln)
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To: Sherman Logan

Actually, it hasn’t. Because the U.S. has not been governed according to the U.S. Constitution since about 1804. But it was a really good plan. The best that can be said is that life is more tolerable under the system we do have. The U.S. Constitution poses no serious threat to our current form of government.


7 posted on 06/08/2008 2:03:48 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Sherman Logan

I meant: Life is more tolerable here than anywhere else. I did not mean that life is more tolerable than it would be if we were living under the U.S. Constitution.


8 posted on 06/08/2008 2:05:07 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Sherman Logan
"The US Constitution was intentionally written to prevent exactly such a concentration of power."

ALL the folks who wrote the Constitution had lots of very FRESH experience at the hands of a "parliamentary government". They rejected it "hands down". The guy promulgating this is a loon.

11 posted on 06/08/2008 2:53:45 PM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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