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There’s a reason the founding fathers regularly stated things like > the Tree of Liberty Must Be Refreshed with the Blood of Patriots and Tyrants - Thomas Jeff
by lettergram 6y ago
There’s a reason the founding fathers regularly stated things like
> the Tree of Liberty Must Be Refreshed with the Blood of Patriots and Tyrants - Thomas Jefferson
It’s because the final authority is the people of the country. The constitution is the social contract the government and people agreed to. If broken, the people have the obligations to correct it. That’s not to say some kind of rebellion necessarily. We have the justice system, Congress, senate, etc. when all that fails... that’s why we have the first, second, fourth, etc amendments. It makes it hard to enforce your will all at once when the people have those protections. Each would have to be slowly taken away to effectively take control .