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Weird. Nobody wants to limit the authority of the government until the government is infringing upon something they care about. If only there was some concept

Weird. Nobody wants to limit the authority of the government until the government is infringing upon something they care about. If only there was some concept where we could specifically enumerate powers to the government, and that's all the government was allowed to do.

salawat 7y ago
...Which wasn't undermined by constant torture of language and politically motivated misinterpretation, or subject to the whims of a highly constrained review mechanism in terms of being conclusively enforced/struck down? Or flaunted with the understanding that the population of people that can actually call out your legislation is astoundingly small given that most have to survive as law abiding citizens while also being potentially harmed by malicious regulation that gets crammed through without review by any interpretive representative in order to ensure the authors fully understand second, third and fourth order consequences? Sure would be...
kd3 7y ago
The best government is no government.
- daerogami 7y ago
  Only on paper in a utopia. That does not work on a landmass with 327 million people that are trying to engage in commerce, build homes and maintain infrastructure in their communities. You need some managing body to orchestrate the funding, management and execution of a civilization whether its a handful of families or a nation covering half a continent. Having no government for those is a logistical impossibility. Better to say "the best corruption is no corruption". That is at least marginally less refutable.
  - kd3 7y ago
    Not necessarily a utopia. It could work; if you want an explanation of how check out the following book: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd18waixbva1jae/WhatAnarchyIsnt-FREEBIE.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd18waixbva1jae/WhatAnarchyIsnt-FR...
everybodyknows 7y ago
How about this for a start: >The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment

salawat 7y ago

...Which wasn't undermined by constant torture of language and politically motivated misinterpretation, or subject to the whims of a highly constrained review mechanism in terms of being conclusively enforced/struck down? Or flaunted with the understanding that the population of people that can actually call out your legislation is astoundingly small given that most have to survive as law abiding citizens while also being potentially harmed by malicious regulation that gets crammed through without review by any interpretive representative in order to ensure the authors fully understand second, third and fourth order consequences? Sure would be...

kd3 7y ago

The best government is no government.

daerogami 7y ago
Only on paper in a utopia. That does not work on a landmass with 327 million people that are trying to engage in commerce, build homes and maintain infrastructure in their communities. You need some managing body to orchestrate the funding, management and execution of a civilization whether its a handful of families or a nation covering half a continent. Having no government for those is a logistical impossibility. Better to say "the best corruption is no corruption". That is at least marginally less refutable.
- kd3 7y ago
  Not necessarily a utopia. It could work; if you want an explanation of how check out the following book: https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd18waixbva1jae/WhatAnarchyIsnt-FREEBIE.pdf?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/yd18waixbva1jae/WhatAnarchyIsnt-FR...

everybodyknows 7y ago

How about this for a start: >The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment