Posted on 06/05/2016 5:36:54 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
The media’s wall-to-wall coverage of Donald Trump and the presidential horserace is a distraction from the main event. The point of the horserace—and of all politics—is to run a government capable of dealing effectively with the nation’s problems. But effective government is precisely what we don’t have. America’s greatest challenge is that it is burdened by a government that doesn’t work, and indeed is dysfunctional.
Why is the nation so poorly governed? This is the question that we address in our new book, Relic. What we show is that the fundamentals of an answer can be traced to the Constitution—which, for all its admirable qualities, imposes a structure of government that has long been outdated, and is ill-suited to modern times.
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“...The Constitution—which, for all its admirable qualities, imposes a structure of government that has long been outdated, and is ill-suited to modern times...”
It is as valid today as the day it was written...The problem is that politicians and judges do not follow what it says because it doesn’t fit their agendas...
the way I see it, the primary function of government Should Be to Limit itself.
How about our employees in D.C. and in our states and communities follow what the constitution says instead of undermining it. That would help a little bit.
These progg/lib/socialist/communists are looking for paradise. There ain’t no paradise. Just hard work and to follow the law.
The last thing the federal government was designed for is effectiveness
Why not just make a President for life? Maybe a King.
I stopped reading after that point because there was no reason to continue.
First order of business....eliminate the Congressional pension system. They collect their pay and that's it. No health insurance, no perks. Corruption is a capital crime and your family ends up penniless.
Add to this term limits...........
There is also a big problem within the general population. While some of those in power are to blame, they are not the sole problem. A free society cannot survive when the population will not limit themselves, and have no belief in a higher authority beyond man himself.
Criminals, liars, deceivers, plunderers, thugs, conmen, scumbags, collectivists, socialists, totalitarians are in and around government.
Identify them. DEPOPULATE them from the body politic. DEFUND their collectives, foreign and domestic.
It's easy to…
live - free - republic
C'mon November
The republic died at Appomattox.
Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments.
The problem is not the Constitution
It’s the dysfunctional people servung in elected office
The Founders knew that a Republic that they created could only be sustained by a virtuous people
And that is where we have and are failing
A virtuous people would not elect the collection of miscreants idiots and oligarchs that now consider elected office to,be their “ career”
DISMANTLE their agencies.
https://www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/a
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
Via amendments the US Constitution has been bastardized and ruined. A republic if you can keep it - not.
Good point.The subjugation of the Confederate States was in fact the death of states rights.
BINGO
The 17th amendment codified the deal.
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