[Jacquerie]

<>But now I see that the Constitution was the wrong road<>

Okay. What was the correct road?

[jobim]

Articles of Confederation. I am not proposing this, or thinking any such thing is possible, just a missed opportunity.

I began to search this out in exasperation with the ineluctable lurch of our Republic on the trajectory that it is on. I believe that all government is ultimately corrupting, and that the only possible manner in which we might hold onto liberty and the natural law, is through competition, ie being able to choose among competing governments. Of course one can expatriate, but I began to wonder if we could at one time have held onto states rights as they were prior to 1789.

Turns out the Articles of Confederation were to be adapted to the realities of our role as a world power, but not to be cast aside and replaced by an all-powerful federal government.