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Our Founders understood this, which is why they established a government with four parts, each increasingly removed from democracy: the directly-voted-on House, the voted-on-by-state-legislatures Senate, the chosen-by-electors President, and the chosen-by-President-and-Senate Supreme Court. The Senate was Aristotle’s oligarchs keeping the demos House from foolishness, the House (where all spending had to start) was the people keeping the oligarchs from taking over power, the President was the check on both the House and Senate with veto power, and the Supreme Court settled disputes that arose in spite of, or because of, the House, Senate, and President.

We no longer have this. The House is directly voted, the Senate is directly voted, the President might as well be directly voted, and the Supreme Court is the vassal of whoever happens to have been directly-elected in the Senate and the White House—there hasn’t been a single non-politically-motivated major decision by SCOTUS since before Brown v. Board of Education.

We already have a President-as-Emperor with a go-along-to-get-along Senate and SCOTUS. Going forward, the difference between President Hillary and President Donald is not that one cares about the Founders and the other does not; rather, the difference is that she’s the left’s *itch and he’s not, so the country will be better served by his Presidency than by hers. But don’t kid yourselves: we’ve turned a corner, leaving the Constitution behind, and I fear we will never return to retrieve it again.

Well said. That is why the Constitution has set us apart from all others. When the Constitution is thrown away, then we only have ambitious men to forge our future. The Constitution has been under attack for the last several decades. Obama’said usurpation of the constituton will be passed on to Trump.

we’ve turned a corner, leaving the Constitution behind, and I fear we will never return to retrieve it again.

I agree. We've turned that corner long before 0, long before W, got in office. I have always stated, in order to turn a massive ship like the U.S. around, you need to get it going in the right direction first. Hopefully, with Trump at the helm, we'll begin to head that way.

I have said before all the Trump/Cruz in-fighting, a Trump/Cruz ticket was, and in a lot of ways, still is, a dream ticket to me. Speaking loosely and briefly in building terms: Trump's 8-year presidency rebuilds the US and Makes America's Great Again; Cruz's 8-year presidency solidifies our Constitution (foundation), and makes it so we don't go through another 8 years of someone like 0 ever again. Again, this was/is just a dream ticket. Who knows what the future will bring.

It took our Framers only eleven years (1776-1787) to figure out that excessively democratic forms of government were dangerous to liberty.

OTOH, we’ve groaned under far too much of the democratic element since 1913, yet most think the answer to our problems is more democracy!