[GeronL]

Rob Reiner says we should be “eliminated” and you can bet that Nancy Pelosi doesn’t disagree

[griswold3]

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[Excellence]

srbfl

[Carry_Okie]

Madison reacted, in Federalist 57, with righteous indignation, challenging the critics to show just how the Constitution favored the few at the expense of the many:

The foundation in class inequality is in the advantage money brings in completing civil action in court that the wealthy disproportionately enjoy. The result was that the public had no way to gain redress for injuries. Hence the democratic pitch for the regulatory state, which then became a toy for the extremely rich via their tax-exempt foundations funding "the downtrodden" to bring actions advantageous to their business interests in Federal courts the general public cannot afford.

From the moment of the "ruling" in Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad granting rights equal with people to corporations under the citizenship clause of the 14th amendment, of the subsequent 307 cases brought before the SCOTUS, 19 were on behalf of people and the rest were upon behalf of corporations. "Equal protection" became protection for the wealthy. Source

[Carry_Okie]

If it be asked, what is to restrain the House of Representatives from making legal discriminations in favor of themselves and a particular class of the society? I answer: the genius of the whole system; the nature of just and constitutional laws; and above all, the vigilant and manly spirit which actuates the people of America — a spirit which nourishes freedom, and in return is nourished by it.

Where is that "manly spirit" in a nation of ignorant drones manufactured by progressivist public education?

[Jacquerie]

Over the past 235 years, the structure of government or its relationship to the people and states were radically changed four times, through the Articles of Confederation of 1781, the Constitution of 1788, the 14th Amendment in 1868, and the 16th and 17th Amendments of 1913.

The last, the 1913 amendments retained the outward form of the American republic, yet constituted a rejection of the Framers’ constitution.

Overnight, we were transformed from a federal, into a democratic republic, in which the rise of demagogues who mouthed the words of freedom while simultaneously appealing to base motives of economic equality and class hatred was assured.

Reps of the people have given government a vast civilian army of obedient thugs ready to use every legal and physical contrivance to snuff out freedom. Unless and until the states gather in convention to reassert federalism, our descent into tyranny is assured.

Julius Caesar courted popularity so successfully that Rome gave him an army, and that army gave him Rome. Wash, rinse, repeat.

[Zionist Conspirator]

One of the best articles I’ve ever read here.