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Accumulated wealth was always one of the core threats to Democracy, and the founders knew it. Any concentrated power, be it wealth, the crown, or something lik
by the_solenoid 5y ago
Accumulated wealth was always one of the core threats to Democracy, and the founders knew it.
Any concentrated power, be it wealth, the crown, or something like the Church of England, were not coincidentally major targets in the founding documents.
But wealth concentrated, eroded the laws through hammering of the courts, then ended up buying the levers of power "under the dome" and here we are.
- hirundo 5y ago> Any concentrated power, be it wealth, the crown, or something like the Church of England, were not coincidentally major targets in the founding documents. The crown was discouraged by explicitly forming a republic with a non-hereditary elected executive of limited powers balanced by two other coequal branches. The church was constrained by the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. But how do the founding documents target the accumulation of wealth? I'm not finding that in my copy of the Constitution or Declaration. Is it in some other founding document?