A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government . . . But experience has taught mankind that auxiliary precautions are necessary.
A few paragraphs later, Madison said, " In a single republic, all the power surrendered by the people is subdivided to the administration of a single government. To guard against usurpation, the government is divided into distinct and separate branches. In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, state and federal. Then the portion allotted to each is subdivided among distinct and separate branches. Hence the rights of the people are doubly protected."
The first and most important division of power was between the states and feds. The 17th Amendment removed the first division. Here in the age of Obama, the second division, that of three branches within the national government has become muddied to point that judges and the executive make proclamations with the force of law.
Very little time remains to save our republic. It is way beyond time for an Article V amendment convention.
“Very little time remains to save our republic. It is way beyond time for an Article V amendment convention.”
Not a good idea, my FRiend. Given that ‘the masses’ have become ‘them asses’ thanks to four generations of commie educators, such a conventio would hardly create anything even vaguely approaching the wisdon of teh present Constitution.
Perhaps it may be time to simply call for a total reset of governments back to teh bounds defined in the Constitution.
How one deals with the demands of the “GibsMeDat” part of America is an issue.
However, as the “GibsMeDat”s are essentially thieves using government to steal for them, there may be no other solution than cutting all such government transfers and dealing with any violence that may spill out of their Urban Feral kraals.
No faction is worth the Republic.