03-14-2017, 03:41 AM
(03-13-2017, 04:17 PM)Kinser79 Wrote: The "Dims" I like that. Seems like that party is filled with lots of dim people these days.
Indeed, I would say that Congress started abdicating its responsibilities sometime around the passage of the 17th amendment. With Senators being subject to the vicissitudes of popular election specialization in the legislative branch of those capable in foreign affairs (among other issues) has diminished.
Typically in democratic republics elected officials are neither brilliant nor terrible...they are mostly mediocre.
The Senate before the Seventeenth Amendment in a very real sense were representatives of the state governments. In a very real sense they were ambassadors of the several states and could be directed to vote by their particular state government. In this way the sovereignty of the individual states was guarded with the side benefit of leaving us with a smaller federal government. Only idiot progressives and modern liberals would think that disabling such a key check on the federal government would be a good idea.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. -- H.L. Mencken
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man's fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason also reject every kind of government action. -- Ludwig von Mises