I take it he's never confronted California's combined state income, sales, and property tax rates on top of Federal income taxes.
Sheesh.
No, our Constitution begins with the words "We the People" not "We the States."
And it created two houses of Congress, one for the people and one for the States. Further, the President is elected by the States. By this omission, Mr. Dionne has passed from ignorant to ignoramus. Too bad, I had thought Mr. Dionne intelligent.
We can wreck that system if we forget our Founders' purpose of creating a representative form of national authority robust enough to secure the public good.
A purely collectivist contention. 'Securing the public good,' as the Founders saw it, was by securing the blessings of INDIVIDUAL liberty. I note that the word "regulation" did not make it into Mr. Dionne's list of grievances. Bureaucracy that is a prime target of the Tea Party. Doesn't he know that?
To be effective....9 states had to ratify it.
Moreover, the Declaration of Independence IS specific to 13 states.
The big fight was between the Federalists and States Rights advocates....Where are we??Same story...different day.
Sure he knows. He's just telling us to "stuff it" because they're ready to reveal their hard core socialist beliefs to the country and celebrate them.
Seriously?
Here he writes a column in which he includes the following passage: "...our Founders' purpose (to create) a representative form of national authority robust enough to secure the public good", and completely subverts the history of the US Constitution as being primarily a document which was framed to limit what the federal government could do. A "robust national authority"?? Good grief! (Don't even get me started on Dionne's insane phrase, "national authority".)
No, the lefty scumbag Dionne is not now, nor has he ever been, particularly "intelligent".
FRegards,
LH