This is brilliant. Genuinely, honestly brilliant. I’ve provided an excerpt, but you really should go read the whole thing.
The triumph of the Constitution as an act of political engineering is that it found a balanced sweet spot between these two extremes by designing a system in which power was spread out enough to quell (most of) that generation’s fears of concentration of power, but not so much so as to render government ineffectual. The rather ingenious system they devised is one in which the government can move expeditiously when there is broad consensus to do so (e.g., after Pearl Harbor), but hardly at all when there is not (e.g., Social Security ‘reform’). It thus institutionalizes a split between the two unhappy extremes of George III and the Articles of Confederation. It is worth taking a moment to examine how this works, not just to admire the handicraft of the Founders, but also to fully appreciate the danger signals flashing red today.
Again, go read it already.
Lono | 13-Jul-05 at 4:55 pm | Permalink
Very interesting… sooo are only choice now is revolution then? So Be It!!
Viva la Revolution!!!