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And every other Founding Father rejected the idea as completely unworkable. The current shutdown demonstrates why Jefferson's idea was a bad idea.
by gamblor956 1y ago
And every other Founding Father rejected the idea as completely unworkable.
The current shutdown demonstrates why Jefferson's idea was a bad idea.
- salawat 1y agoNo it doesn't. We've got so much cruft and deadlock because we've operated in a Madisonian regime. With that cruft comes selective enforcement, and with that both contempt, and loss of legitimacy in the eyes of the populace. It is enough that the younger generations feel hemmed in by a gerontocracy to see that something has gone horribly wrong, and that the direction we've been going is part of what got us to the current situation.
- embedding-shape 1y ago> And every other Founding Father rejected the idea as completely unworkable. I went looking for more information when parent left their comment, and I found some letters: - Jefferson to Madison, Sept. 6, 1789 ("earth belongs in usufruct to the living" 19-year term, expiry by default) - Madison to Jefferson, Feb. 4, 1790 (three classes of laws; stability, property, tacit consent) - Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816 (periodic constitutional conventions every 19–20 years) You said "every other Founding Father" but I can't find any letters to/from anyone else, could you please share with me the source(s) you got this from so I could continue reading about this? Very interesting subject I hadn't hear about before.
- gamblor956 1y agoThe Constitution...