The European Constitution
65 pages of single-spaced gobbledygook. All good intentions and impossible implementation.
Makes me wonder what a “constitution as written by a liberal” would look like.
“Makes me wonder what a “constitution as written by a liberal” would look like.”
I seem to remember some half-hearted humor on this - written by those who tried to suppress their intelligence and write like a lefty.
It was not a pretty sight.
And if ever implemented, would most definitely be the cause of Civil War II.
***Makes me wonder what a “constitution as written by a liberal” would look like.***
Google the ‘constitution’ of the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to find the asnwer to your question.
Or ash the President, First Lady, Cass Sunstein, ad nauseam.
It’s intersting that the left cannot ensconce itself as a governing entity without lies, deceit and murder. Then, when it achieves power it cannot maintain that power without force (including minimizing the population’s gun ownership) and more lies, deceit and murder.
Yet, the Marxists see themselves as the most enlightened people on earth.
Their 'Bill of Rights' would grant the government spectacular powers to intrude into and regulate the lives of ordinary citizens. It would've codified Government as Parent.
The unwritten subtext of the whole of the Revolution would've been 'We're breaking away from the mother country, because we're not nearly oppressed enough by it; we'll do a much better job of oppressing ourselves'.
Look at Alexander Hamilton’s proposed constitution. For him the States were mere historical accidents,like English counties. The Anti-federalists discerned that many other men thought like Hamilton, mostly city men, whose model of good government was monarchy, or a disguised republic like Great Britain. Not all the Tories fled to Upper Canada.
The European Constitution
65 pages of single-spaced gobbledygook. All good intentions and impossible implementation.