Posted on 04/11/2015 6:23:50 AM PDT by Jacquerie
It’s a pity the Russians didn’t enforce the constitution they had.
The Soviet Constitution shared more than a few similarities with the US constitution. The rights to property, private correspondence, freedom of religion & conscience, equality before the law, and the right to earn/keep earnings and to leave inheritances are there.
All considered, it wasn’t bad for peoples who had only known Mongol hordes and Czars for the past thousand years.
Despite these guarantees, the Soviet Union was a slave state from its inception. How could oppression have lived side-by-side recognized assurances of so many personal rights?
Slavery was certain because the Soviet system lacked institutions designed to secure liberty.
Similar to post-1913 American governance, the Soviet constitution set up internal contradictions. While it guaranteed certain rights and free will, the Soviet constitution purposely neglected to provide governing institutions to secure those rights.
At least history provided the Russians with an excuse.
History doesn’t leave Americans such an easy out. The self-inflicted wound of the 17th Amendment destroyed the Framers' careful structure of freedom. In 102 years we morphed from the freest nation on earth to one on the cusp of hard tyranny.
Oh, and the Soviet Union had elections too.
They considered and immediately rejected a popularly derived senate, and would barf at the thought of six year terms for elected reps.
Also, check out Article I Section 10. These are the powers relinquished by thirteen nations to an umbrella republic of their creation. They didn't give up a single power until their presence in the senate was assured. The constitution was entirely contingent on a senate of the states.
The constitution acts on both the people and the states, so both were represented in the law making body. It makes as much sense in our system to boot the people from congress as it did to boot the states . . . no sense at all.
The 17A left behind a federal constitution without a federal government.
Maybe it’s because they had reverence for God.
I think they had a lot of inspiration form God also.
The North Korean constitution reads a lot like ours but they obviously do not follow it at all.
As if we follow our Constitution anymore.
exactly
The very definition of a "living Constitution"...
Article V ping!
“Sorry, the russians are not my people. “
True for me as well, but I will point out that with rampant political correctness ravaging the western nations in conjunction with Islamic uprisings and push for world Islamization, Russia and other eastern block countries my be the last refuge of Caucasians.
I agree with you. I would put it as he is a symptom. However, because of his position he also is a causative factor; i.e. he has caused the worsening of race relations in our country.
I read the Soviet constitution back in high school and wondered the same thing myself. Funny as it was all a lie just like the rest of communism.
[ I read the Soviet constitution back in high school and wondered the same thing myself. Funny as it was all a lie just like the rest of communism. ]
You can tell a commie/totalitarian constitution by the fact they say what rights the people have and not what rights the government cannot infringe upon...
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