Posted by
CKHustler on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 12:49:15 AM
The Powers of the Senate From the New York Packet.
Friday, March 7, 1788.
JAY
Federalist Paper #64
"and they have committed the appointment of senators to the State legislatures."
I just cannot understand why we changed this. Im sorry I keep coming back to this, but each and every word in the Constitution was thought through, including the choosing of senators. I understand where people might want more direct power and to garner more votes some legislature decided they would switch this rule, but thinking logically rather than emotionally, people can be fooled easily by anyone with a slick tongue. On a national stage it is easier to get away with that as you do not necessarily need to personally meet millions of people. On a local stage you may well have to meet a good portion of your voters and there is a better chance of them seeing through your BS in my opinion. I think our Constitution was meant to keep all voting local in a sense. Vote for your state representatives in a local manner. Vote for your HoR in a local manner. The only exception would be voting for Governor. So in essence, many many slick tonques would be needed for a corrupt person to be set in the position of power.
"As the select assemblies for choosing the President, as well as the
State legislatures who appoint the senators, will in general be
composed of the most enlightened and respectable citizens"
Dare I read that again? Im so lucky I am not eating anything as I reminisce of all the corrupt allegations of tax fraud that have headlined the news for the past couple months alone. Again, it would be more funny if it wasn't so sad.
"The duration prescribed is such as will give them an opportunity of
greatly extending their political information, and of rendering their
accumulating experience more and more beneficial to their country."
Does anyone get the feeling that those who have been in the senate the longest have accrued anything more than the ability to increase the depth of their corruption without being caught? It seems that every month a new investigation is launched on these veteran senators because of some law-breaking adventure they partook in. Pitiful.
"Thus we see that the Constitution provides that our negotiations for
treaties shall have every advantage which can be derived from talents,
information, integrity, and deliberate investigations, on the one hand,
and from secrecy and despatch on the other."
Granted this is about treaties, but I think I can understand how Hillary Clinton did not know what she was voting for when we went to war in Iraq. *rolls eyes* I can't believe she actually said that before. It is funny that the democrats are always trying to run from the fact that they voted to go into the Iraq war. They blame it all on Bush, but the vote stands. 77-23. Somehow liberals always seem to forget that.
"and the government must be a weak one indeed, if it should forget that
the good of the whole can only be promoted by advancing the good of
each of the parts or members which compose the whole."
Here is a core belief of conservatives. Liberals believe in giving everyone an equal slice of the pie, while we believe in making a larger pie. We believe by giving the most economic freedom possible, each person will thrive, which will in turn boost our economy. How a conservative belief works at a macroeconomics level is very easy to understand. I have done a piece on it before...you can check my old posts before the Federalist Paper posts if you choose. It had to do with the trickle down effect.
"As to corruption, the case is not supposable. He must either have been
very unfortunate in his intercourse with the world, or possess a heart
very susceptible of such impressions, who can think it probable that
the President and two thirds of the Senate will ever be capable of such
unworthy conduct. The idea is too gross and too invidious to be
entertained."
I believe when that day comes...it is time to take back the government and no Constitution could do anything against such corruption. If one believes it possible to find a government free of any form of corruption, they are dreaming. Socialism is the utopian dream for liberals as they believe it would be the perfect society, though they forget, we are not robots.
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke