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Words to remember from the 4th of July

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07-04-2022, 10:18 PM

A quote from the middle section of the Declaration of Independence, listing the failures of King George:

  • He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
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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.
  • He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
  • He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.


From the beginning of the colonies, the colonists had the ability to elect their own legislatures.  The colonies always had some independence.  The first and primary complaints of the Declaration of Independence are that the King was trying to neuter or dissolve these legislatures.  
The founders viewed the legislative power as primary, as most important.  The legislative branch needed to be the most powerful, as they saw it. Our legislative branch today is still the most powerful of the three branches, in theory, but it is the least effective.  Because it does not do its work, the things it was supposed to do are instead done by the other two branches.  Presidents try to give executive orders to re-animate old statutes, and judges after long consideration either go along with it or turn it down.  It was not supposed to be this way.

I have my own opinions about this, but first I welcome yours.  When did this change?  Why did it change?  Who changed it?  How can we change it back?  Are the members of Congress elected today actually villains, or would they do their jobs more effectively under a different incentive structure?  Would term limits help? Would nonpartisan primaries help? Would ranked choice voting or approval voting help?
My fellow southpaw Mark Brunell will probably always be my favorite Jaguar.
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Words to remember from the 4th of July - by mikesez - 07-04-2022, 10:18 PM
Copycat - by copycat - 07-05-2022, 04:01 AM
RE: Copycat - by The Real Marty - 07-05-2022, 05:39 AM
Copycat - by copycat - 07-08-2022, 08:37 AM
Copycat - by copycat - 07-08-2022, 07:30 PM
RE: Copycat - by mikesez - 07-08-2022, 07:40 PM



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