Posted on 08/21/2021 5:46:39 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Your second paragraph is by far your best answer!
Totally agree with it.
If it is not enforced, it is worthless. Ours is not being enforced even handedly. I’ll bet N. Korea has a nice sounding one, too.
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 Russians with an excuse, for they had never known free government.
History doesn’t leave Americans such an easy out. Since the 17th Amendment, America has transformed from the freest nation on earth to one on the cusp of hard tyranny.
Oh, and the Soviet Union had elections too.
It is long past time to reclaim free government. The 17th Amendment must go.
Article V while we can.
“The 17th Amendment must go”
Along with the 16th.
Yes, the evil sibling of the 17th must go as well.
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