Reading through the Federal Papers dealing with the advice and consent issues, I took note of their belief in high minded and moral people of character and substance who would do the right thing in government. Now then, today I don’t think many in the country would look at our government officials being people of good character and morally straight. In fact, it is almost the opposite.
IMO, it is time for a redo.
“Reading through the Federal Papers dealing with the advice and consent issues, I took note of their belief in high minded and moral people of character and substance who would do the right thing in government. Now then, today I don’t think many in the country would look at our government officials being people of good character and morally straight. In fact, it is almost the opposite.”
I agree, I don’t think that they had forseen a day where the electorate would actually be this stupid to elect such people. Clinton was a good example. There was a day, not that long ago, where a politician caught in such a scandal (and scandalous behavior has been going on since time immoral, so to speak) would simply do the right thing, resign and disappear from public, or perhaps I should say pubic, life. Instead, we got a very ugly display and a botched impeachment, because “the other side” couldn’t bear the consequences of losing. There is no “moral turpitude” clause in any office because it really didn’t seem like we needed one. Still, the history books kids will read about that era won’t contain any details - because they are STILL almost unprintable! In a way, it was ingenious.