“just authority in rulers can be exercised for the good of subjects, if necessary even against the subjects’ own perceptions of what is best for them.” Learned in Ninth grade, the final line of an essay is the most important. This guy needs to be marked down as an anti-Constitutionalist. We were never subjects, that was what the Revolution was about . This is a throw back to divine right of kings.
It looks like a ‘theocracy’ is what he wants to see.
“That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” —an obscure quotation , known only to persons educated beyond a J.D from Harvard.
or, even more obscure :”that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
Not necessarily - read the sentence before that last sentence. The POTUS should not be tied up by any random judge who thinks he is the Almighty. And we have elections to select representatives rather than mob rule because we recognize that we can pick leaders wiser than ourselves, which implicitly allows for the idea that they will sometimes vote against the mob, even the mob that elected them.