[Bigun]

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny."

Is that not the situation we currently find ourselves in?

Do we not have currently a single "same hands" group very much in control of all three branches of our government?

I believe we do and the "same hands" group I speak of is lawyers.

[Loud Mime]

The Republicans should be using that quote from Madison at every opportunity!

[tstarr]

I believe we do and the "same hands" group I speak of is lawyers.

I would say lawyers and bankers/financiers. Lawyers seem to lapse into case law discussions where the average common sense person's eyes would glaze over and would revert the discussion to where it needs to be - the Constitution. I think equally privileged and elitist are the bankers. If I were president, I'd certainly want to break up this lovefest amongst Goldman Sachs, the government, and the Fed. I was struck when Michelle Bachman asked Tim Geithner to tell her where in the Constitution it said he had the right to do (whatever it was he was doing). He acted as if he had never heard of the document. Scary.