Posted on 10/19/2020 8:05:03 AM PDT by Kaslin
The upcoming election presents Americans with two clearly distinct visions for the future. Indeed, President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden are perfect proxies that highlight diametrically opposed policies. Correctly understanding our history properly frames the competing agendas so we can make informed decisions.
Since the inception of our Constitution, citizens have debated the proper role and scope of the government. Because the Preamble of the Constitution defines "We, the people" as the source of government's authority, it has been the responsibility of the American people to establish its legitimacy within the Constitution's framework.
Americans have always had a healthy distrust of government, because history is replete with examples of its abuse and the collateral subjugation of people. But there is evidence that relative peace and economic security have lulled us into complacency, where we've effectively become indifferent to government's growth, from its modest beginnings to the Leviathan that currently controls so much of our lives. Is the exchange of our freedoms for an ever-expansive government culturally and morally healthy, or is it a Faustian bargain?
Let's begin with instruction from James Madison, the father of the Constitution. In Federalist 51, he provides the principal justification for government by stating, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary." He argued for a government structure of checks and balances designed to provide countervailing influences of each branch against the other two, the "separation of powers" we're all familiar with. "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition," Madison wrote, and the degree of countermeasures was meticulously calculated based on the potential severity of abuse.
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Glad I died 200 years ago?
They would challenge every Democrat to a duel. When all the Democrats were dead, they’d start horse-whipping the Republicans.
Thanks for asking but I’d rather continue spinning in my grave?
They’d say normalizing birth control sure opened up Hell
They’d have said they should have put something into the Constitution to someday regulate this thing they call social media.
"Why are you letting all these unqualified people vote?"
John Adams
The founding Fathers would have put the baby murderers on the ends of ropes a long time past.
One side loves America and our Constitution, the other side hates America and wants to get rid of the Constitution.
Which side do you think they would favor?
Yes. Regulation on the media. Not fairness doctrine but some check on the media.
Probably ask England to take America back.
She interhited her foreign fathers foreign citizenship by birthright. She was born a dual national, owing a divided allegiance to a foreign country.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President;
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
They’d be kicking themselves for focusing on firewalling the constitution against monarchies and not seeing communism coming. I think they would have included an amendment forbidding income taxes and an easy secession provision.
They would be wondrous amazed at what their country had achieved.
They would also immediately identify all the problems of centralized government overreach, debilitating empire, massive debt, corrupted money, and the huge political, elite, and corrupt crony capitalist class that has taken root in DC because of these things.
For starters, they hated political parties.
I agree. Dead men tell no tales...
WE warned you
“They’d be kicking themselves for focusing on firewalling the constitution against monarchies and not seeing communism coming.”
Very astute. They tried to protect Liberty through the structure of Government.
Many of the bulwarks against oppressive government which they put in place have been removed by the ignorant monkeys who followed them.
There were protections of the Individual that have been destroyed.
““Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people”. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
John Adams “
They would likely be very actively involved in a national Christian revival movement and public education reform.
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