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This country was founded on checks and balances. We seem to have lost that entirely.
by sixothree 6y ago
This country was founded on checks and balances. We seem to have lost that entirely.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> This country was founded on checks and balances. No, it wasn’t. It was founded on an impotent central government. It later adopted checks and balances when it decided it needed a much more powerful central government and what it was founded on was unsuitable. But just because US Gov 2.x lasted longer than 1.x doesn’t mean everything in the 2.0. release was perfect; its certainly needed many minor and bugfix releases, and there’s no reason to think that it might not at some point need another ground-up rewrite.
- throwaway0a5e 6y agoPrior to 1900 or so (even more so prior to 1860) the "potent" central government was still very impotent by modern standards.
- giantg2 6y agoWhat are you counting as 1.x, Pre-Constitution?
- Jayschwa 6y agoMost likely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation
- jimz 6y agoArticles of Confederation. It was in force for 6 years before the founders dumped it and drafted the Constitution. The main problems were the inability for congress to levy taxes, regulate trade international and interstate, and congress wound up having to beg the states for money.
- fallingknife 6y agoThis isn't really an example of that, though. This is just a clear cut 6th (and probably more) amendment violation by the government.