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Repeal the 17th Amendment
Congressman Ron Paul has said that he would support the repeal of the 17th Amendment and some on the net conclude this to mean that he is opposed to democracy. Have you ever wondered why our school systems do not have us studiously study our founding documents? The Federalists papers, and the anti-Federalist papers were only mentioned in passing, our Constitution in my opinion as well as the other documents should be taught from an early age, then our citizenry would know it's proper place as the sovereign.
I feel many of the problems we are facing as a nation could be immediately corrected if we would focus on the abolishment of this amendment and the return of our republican form of government, remember we do not have much time most democracies only last 200 some years, it's an historical fact.
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union.
Thursday, November 22, 1787
[James Madison]
I hope this discussion takes hold, as we start a buzz about this issue.
Thanks
I feel many of the problems we are facing as a nation could be immediately corrected if we would focus on the abolishment of this amendment and the return of our republican form of government, remember we do not have much time most democracies only last 200 some years, it's an historical fact.
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
A republic, by which I mean a government in which the scheme of representation takes place, opens a different prospect, and promises the cure for which we are seeking. Let us examine the points in which it varies from pure democracy, and we shall comprehend both the nature of the cure and the efficacy which it must derive from the Union.
Thursday, November 22, 1787
[James Madison]
I hope this discussion takes hold, as we start a buzz about this issue.
Thanks
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