[Mojave]

And we have the power every two years to wipe the slate clean and start over with 435 brand new legislators who write those laws.

You and Thomas Jefferson are statists!!!!!

"The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people."
--Thomas Jefferson

[tacticalogic]

"The elective franchise, if guarded as the ark of our safety, will peaceably dissipate all combinations to subvert a Constitution, dictated by the wisdom, and resting on the will of the people." --Thomas Jefferson

Are not "we the people" here now discussing certain of those combinations with the intent of trying to determine whether they threaten to subvert the Constitution? "We the People" is not "we the people", although I frequently see arguments that seem based on that premise.