ItalianPatriot

ItalianPatriot

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13 years ago @ Western Center For Jou... - Is U.S. Now On Slippe... · 2 replies · +3 points

Dear Mr Sowell,

Why can't ANYONE refer to us properly? We are supposed to be a "Representative Republic", NOT a democracy! The founders did not want a democracy, they wanted to stay as far away from democracy as possible as it was "mob rule" rather than orderly self governance.

I have absolutely had it with the lackadaisical attitude concerning this term... even presidents use the term... It is obvious why we are in the situation we are in... NO ONE WANTS TO RECOGNIZE OUR TRUE FORM OF GOVERNMENT!!

If we think we are a democracy you believe that the constitution does not matter... only the will of the people (or in our case, the congress) rather than the checks and balances the Constitution requires...

Case and point is the blatant disregard for the Constitution concerning so many areas... The most egregious being when Constitutional Amendments are written in the belief they can "change the Constitution"... A Constitutional Amendment CANNOT change the Constitution... ONLY further define or address something not previously addressed by the original document... That is why the 16th amendment stood... because it only further defined that which was already allowed... It never CHANGED the Constitution to allow something forbidden. Yet, the Executive Branch (in concert with the congress) have been miss applying the IRC to tax things it was NEVER intended to.

The problem we have is that the people, as pointed out in your article are just as Hitler wanted, "useful idiots" because they don't pay attention to what truly matters... They think that "security" is paramount since 9/11.. However, there is no LIBERTY when you allow or demand the government to "protect you"...

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety” – Benjamin Franklin

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