Liberty United Against Trump

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• Reply October 21, 2016

  Guest;

  First it was Liberty, next Regent – what’s next => ORU? http://us4.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5617c6d0b982f53ec74c3103e&id=ac6573d179&e=a72e43ce80

• Reply January 5, 2019

  Guest;

  Jimmy Humphrey oh well fall well https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/jerry-falwell-jr-cant-imagine-trump-doing-anything-thats-not-good-for-the-country/2018/12/21/6affc4c4-f19e-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html?fbclid=IwAR09pnNGzlf_FdlndsHzgm79218-P3tiHtRuYvTG06KDsydLnkPwPhjqVIw&utm_term=.04eb33da3e6f

• Reply January 7, 2019

  Guest;

  Go Trump!

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  Reply January 20, 2020

  Varnel Watson

  In Federalist Paper No. 10, James Madison wanted to prevent rule by majority faction, saying, “Measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.”

  John Adams warned in a letter, “Remember democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet, that did not commit suicide.”

  Edmund Randolph said, “That in tracing these evils to their origin, every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy.”

  Then-Chief Justice John Marshall observed, “Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.”

  The Founders expressed contempt for the tyranny of majority rule, and throughout our Constitution, they placed impediments to that tyranny. Two houses of Congress pose one obstacle to majority rule. That is, 51 senators can block the wishes of 435 representatives and 49 senators.

  The president can veto the wishes of 535 members of Congress. It takes two-thirds of both houses of Congress to override a presidential veto.

  To change the Constitution requires not a majority but a two-thirds vote of both houses, and if an amendment is approved, it requires ratification by three-fourths of state legislatures.

  Finally, the Electoral College is yet another measure that thwarts majority rule. It makes sure that the highly populated states—today, mainly 12 on the east and west coasts, cannot run roughshod over the rest of the nation. That forces a presidential candidate to take into consideration the wishes of the other 38 states.

  Those Americans obsessed with rule by popular majorities might want to get rid of the Senate, where states, regardless of population, have two senators.