Re: Does Dimdows Know What Time It Is?

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:01:28 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

Yeah, it was, but the country has changed significantly since the 1960s
at the very least. It has become the opposite of what fans of the
Constitution would expect it to be.

Id I haven't quoted it recently...

“But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much
is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have
had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to
exist.”

Lysander Spooner   1867

Spooner was an anti-capitalist individualist anarchist. While he was an
ardent abolitionist part of his argument in 'No Treason: The Constitution
of No Authority' was Lincoln had absolutely no constitutional
justification by forcing the the Confederate states to remain in the union
and were not traitors for asserting their right.

Lincoln was the first Republican president and the party has had a
checkered career since then. I cringe when Romney says he wants to rebuild
the Republican party. I did not vote for him and would not vote for a
party recreated in his image.

The original stated purpose of the convention was to refine the Articles
of Confederation, not create a whole new document that needed ten
amendments and much bribery before it was ratified. It was weak then as
the anti-Federalists pointed out and weakened further by the Marshall
court that long outlasted the Federalist party.