The Constitution, Magna Carta and Democracy Itself Are Based on the Idea that – Without Checks and Balances – Those In Power Will Take Advantage of Us
America was founded on a conspiracy theory: that Britain’s King George and his men were conspiring against the colonists.
The Declaration of Independence recites a series of conspiracies [16]:
MoreWhen a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism … The history of the present King of Great Britain [and others working with and for him] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
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He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
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He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
3 comments:
Deja vu all over again.
Vote for Romney/Ryan and save America!
Vote 3rd Party and say we've had enough of the Status Quo!
Dang. All this time, all these smug and self-righteous yes men for totalitarianism kept ridiculing people who think the Constitution is a real document as a group who bought "tin foil hats" by the gross. It sounded SO superior. It felt so good just to claim that someone who thought the government wanted to protect their power rather than protect the citizens was some kind of "conspiracy freak". It also feels good to know these "tin foil hat" wearers are in SUCH GOOD COMPANY. George Washington would have beat you to death for suggesting he and Thomas Jefferson were some kind of nut case for wanting and fighting for what they believed in. Smug? check. Self-righteous? check. Naive? check. Superior minded? check. Stupidly surrendering our individual rights to a centralized, all-powerful government who can think for your lazy self? That is a definite "check".
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