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The framers designed a system of government to be allergic to kings, having just fought off a king a couple years earlier.

• krapp 2y ago
  The system appears to have developed a tolerance. Americans' blind faith that their peculiar system of government makes tyranny impossible will only lead them to deny reality even when it hits them in the face with a truncheon.
  • thesuperbigfrog 2y ago
    >> Americans' blind faith that their peculiar system of government makes tyranny impossible will only lead them to deny reality even when it hits them in the face with a truncheon. Even those who crafted the American system knew that it was not perfect. Benjamin Franklin said: "I confess that there are several parts of this Constitution which I do not at present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them. For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise. It is therefore that, the older I grow, the more apt I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others." "In these sentiments, Sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government." Source: https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/constitutionalconvention-september17.htm https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/constitutionalconvention-se...