Clipping Leviathan's Fingers
Clipping Leviathan's Fingers How to Put a Permanent Leash on the Federal Government (Step 1: Senate Reform) Julius Ruechel America was supposed to be a truly decentralized bottom-up republic designed to defend the rights and liberties of its citizens (and their local communities!) from tyranny in all its forms. To paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, what the Founding Fathers created was supposed to be a “ government of the people, by the people, for the people. ” Yet the entire 250-year history of the United States is one long slow erosion of that idea as America evolves to become an increasingly top-down, centrally-controlled, quasi-imperial state. America might still have an elected president, but by many measures it has long since become even more burdensome to live under Washington’s current thumb that it was to live under King George III on the eve of the American Revolution. By contrast, our Canadian parliamentary system has long since been quasi-imperial in the structure of its co...