Clearly temporarily, as there is no Constitutional remedy for this.
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That’s what I was getting at. There’s nothing wrong with the Constitution itself. It’s still a brilliant document, but many parts of it no longer function as designed because of broad and deep corruption. The three branches function as one giant corrupt branch, and the States no longer seem to be able to hold the Federal government in check by invoking their States rights.
One of your Statesmen made an observation about “When a government becomes corrupt and abusive and descends into tyranny, it no longer serves the people, and there’s no remedy except to tear it down and start over.” That is such a bad rendition of what was actually said, but I think that was the salient point. Someone here will help me out and provide the correct quote with proper attribution.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.—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.”
Declaration of Independence.
One of your Statesmen made an observation about “When a government becomes corrupt and abusive and descends into tyranny, it no longer serves the people, and there’s no remedy except to tear it down and start over.” That is such a bad rendition of what was actually said, but I think that was the salient point. Someone here will help me out and provide the correct quote with proper attribution.
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This?
When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.
Thomas Jefferson quoting Baron de Montesquieu