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I thought Obama was the final corruption of Article II. I was wrong. Come January 20th it is the placeholder Joseph Robinette Biden.
1 posted on 01/14/2021 2:25:27 PM PST by Jacquerie
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To: Jacquerie

“If Men were angels, government would not be necessary.
If angels were to govern men, controls on government would not be necessary.
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over other men,
the great difficulty lies in this:
you must first enable the government to control the governed;
and the next place, you must oblige it to control itself.”
- James Madison-in 1788-in the text from Federalist No. 51

Here is the conundrum:
People do bad things, so they must to be governed,
but the government is composed of people.
and people do bad things.

If people can not be trusted with their own freedom,
how can people be trusted with power over other people?


2 posted on 01/14/2021 2:34:50 PM PST by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Jacquerie
Start at the 20 second mark
3 posted on 01/14/2021 3:10:03 PM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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To: Jacquerie
Yet another intellectual who spouts democracy instead of a Constitutional Republic.
He may as well come right out and say he is a Democrat in my book.
4 posted on 01/14/2021 4:51:17 PM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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