Originally posted by: joshsquall
I find it very ironic that someone wanting to overthrow a government is worried about its rules.
he wants to be protected by the piece of paper that he wants to overthrow and abolish. duh!
:laugh:
on a side-note, I have a buddy that thinks its okay to - and that the government should - make changes to the Constitution to make it more modernized. I say:
, as well.. the government was not set to be ruled by the constitution (by which I mean, the government's laws should not be held within the constitution), but rather the constitution was meant to be a framework for creating as minimal of a government as possible, and letting the idea of a federation system run true. sadly, everyone else fails to see this and want to continue to give the federal government all the power and leave the states powerless.
it seems as if the EU is currently in a state of governing in which our country was supposed to be, with the top government laying only the groundwork, and the individual states (those who know the definition of a state should understand why the colonies became 'states', and why all the U.S. states to this day are referred to as states, and not provinces or what have you) governing themselves and working together through the top level. This has been abandoned.
While I don't really define myself as a Ron Paul supporter, as frankly, I don't know who the hell I support this time around, his idea of less government is ideal to how I think our country was founded and the founding fathers would be frightened at where we have gotten ourselves too.
is he the right person for the job though.. I don't know. I don't know nearly enough about him to determine that. And I also think it'll take far more than a single person in the government, in the position that actually makes the least progress as far as change (president), to steer this country back towards the structure it was. Frankly, with all the systems currently in place, that may be impossible.
However, some federal entities and the current structure definitely have a place in the modern world, but scaled down a bit. The original system definitely wouldn't hold in todays world, well.. at least it wouldn't last long and would probably begin to evolve into something similar to how it is right now, maybe why it didn't last long in the first place.
sorry for the rant, but by time I finished my tangent, I deemed it to far too late to delete and I have decided to keep it anyway. Some good stuff is in that rant.