To: Howie66
You don’t know what you are talking about.
“Our Founders were counting on a populace of God-Fearing, Moral and Educated People to understand the RESPONSIBILITY laid at their feet by God Almighty to be forever VIGILANT of their FREEDOM.”
YOU ARE SO VERY WRONG.
The founders greatly distrusted the people.
That is why they took direct election of the president out of the hands of the people and put in into the hands of “electors”
That is why they created a 6 year senate term with staggered classes. They did this so that some young Hitler could win the presidency, could have his party carry the House, but he would only have 1/3 of the senate.
The founders believed in an elite senate separate from the people who could put a check and balance on the rest including the judicial appointments of the president and foreign treaties.
38 posted on
02/04/2014 7:41:03 PM PST by
staytrue
To: staytrue
That is why they created a 6 year senate term with staggered classes. They did this so that some young Hitler could win the presidency, could have his party carry the House, but he would only have 1/3 of the senate.
BULLS#*^T
What history book have you been reading.
It's time your read the federalist papers, because the thing the founding fathers feared the most was the possibility of a KING!
That is why they set it up for each state to elect their US Senator from the their State House, which would have it's pulse on the PEOPLE!
You may have confused the fact that those with property only had the right to vote, but that was because they wanted to ensure the voters had a real stake in keeping the elected official freedom friendly.
You have a twisted idea of what was in the minds of the founding fathers.
48 posted on
02/04/2014 9:19:01 PM PST by
OneVike
(I'm just a Christian waiting to go home)
To: staytrue
You forget the 17th Amendment which caused the Senate to be directly elected. The left has watered down the original Constitution. You have no argument.
52 posted on
02/05/2014 2:49:28 AM PST by
VRWC For Truth
(Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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