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Oh, I hope you appreciate the complete contradiction in your arguments. I made a statement in support of Federalism as a basis for our founding. You said: Th
by crusso 14y ago
Oh, I hope you appreciate the complete contradiction in your arguments.
I made a statement in support of Federalism as a basis for our founding. You said:
This is middle school civics drivel
Then later you said:
I think federalism is a failed experiment and I have no interest in re-litigating the Civil War.
So apparently, Federalism was a core part of the "experiment" of or Founding and not "middle school civics drivel".
- rayiner 14y agoThe statement which I called drivel was: "The Founding Fathers were deeply paranoid of an overbearing government and an very powerful political class." The Founders were not a homogenous group of people, and the dominant faction, the Federalists, looked quite admiringly at the British Parliament. > Federalism was a core part of the "experiment" I didn't say Federalism wasn't a part of the experiment of the Founding. I'm addressing your historical revisionism about why the Federal system exists. It has more to do with political expediency in a climate where the states held all the cards than any deeply held belief that the Federal government should be as strong as possible. Remember, the Framers didn't have a mandate to create a new Constitution, because the state legislatures were worried what that would do to their power. They created the Constitution they thought they could get away with.