Quote Originally Posted by Shaps View Post
This is why any other system that's been attempted did not protect the rights of it's citizens as well as the Constitutional Republic format... other systems are idealistic and, if was not inhabited by human influence, would overall be more harmonious...

The problem is, those systems - ie. Communism, Socialism, The Prime Directive, etc... are not successful... is because there are no built in constraints to their implementation by the humans that control them.

There is a reason the US founders highlighted in the Declaration of Independence... "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...."

The rights are the peoples upon being born... not given to them by their Government.

There is a reason they also used the term "Creator" vs. "God"... so that the rights they enumerated would cover anyone's belief system... not just ones of Christian Orthodoxy (even though the majority were Christian at the time)... and also why they never mentioned God at all in the Constitution.

They were very astute and understood that political systems were only as good as the people that implemented them... and therefore created one that tried to limit those in power abusing those that they governed, through the systems of Checks and Balances and Separation of Powers.

It worked for awhile... but sadly we are where we are today.
Favorite Conservative past time, getting all misty eyed about the declaration of independence and moaning over how the plain tenants laid out in it should be the sole governing rules of our land. I'll tell you, we're the longest standing democracy for a reason, we have in almost every part of our government the checks and balances that the Framers and Fathers envisioned. Except, that the Executive and Judicial have dreamed up an immunity to the laws that govern our land.

Conservative justices flaunting their corruption and receiving six figure gifts? It's amazing there isn't a federal inquiry into this right now, the law was broken. Yet, the Framers said that Justice's have a lifelong appointment and the vastly partisan Legislative branch probably couldn't even agree to impeach a justice who murdered someone. Pathetic.

Worse yet, the former administration decided the President is immune from prosecution and set a precedent that no matter what happened, only an impeachment in a divided congress could stop him. That is an even worse check on uncontrolled power. Biden could probably go out and rob a Walgreens of all it's hard candy and ice cream and suffer nothing more than Republicans frothing at the mouth slightly more than they are now.