On Sun, 11 May 2008 09:37:49 -0700, Day Brown wrote:
> The Trucker wrote:
>>> But the leaders there won't let it happen because of their greed for
>>> money. Nice idea, but it discounts basic human nature.
>>
>> It seems to me that this greed thing is a shared trait among all
persons
>> in power. That is why a "republican form of government" is best.
> Machiavelli said that republics _always_ get corrupted by the rich. He
> therefore admire monarchies, which were like a family business. The
> monarch took a longer view than the republic because he wanted to hand
> the family business down later to his heirs.
Monarchy was quashed by the United States Constitution because the people
simply would not accept it. Machiavelli may have been absolutely correct
but if you actually look at the Constitution you will find how the people
of that time intended to prevent this "corruption by the rich". Please
assume a House of Representatives in which each thirty thousand people had
a representative. That would be ten thousand independent votes on every
piece of legislation. It would, according to most people, be a populist
mob. By then we have this other coequal branch of the legislature called
the Senate that protects the rich from assault by the mob. We also have a
Supreme Court that will prevent any sort of mob rule by virtue of the
Constitutional restraints on mob rule. I maintain that the rich have
corrupted the government because of the failure to properly express and
ratify the very first amendment to the Constitution. That amendment would
have created a House of 6000 members based on the current population or a
House of 1600 depending upon interpretation of the original House version
of the amendment. The republic has been corrupted by the rich because we
failed to include a constitutional provision insisting on an increase in
member****p of the House as population grew. The people have lost any real
representation in the government because of this.
<<< Long history lesson deleted >>>
"A government is republican in pro****tion as every member composing it has
his equal voice in the direction of its concerns: not indeed in person,
which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small
town****p, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him
at short periods." --Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816.
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"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers
of society but the people themselves; and
if we think them not enlightened enough to
exercise their control with a wholesome
discretion, the remedy is not to take it from
them, but to inform their discretion by
education." - Thomas Jefferson
http://GreaterVoice.org/extend
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