Comments on: Larry Sabato Guest Blog Post

by: BOB SYKES

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:06:20 +0000

The Senate, like the Supreme Court and the Electoral College, are anti-democratic elements inserted into the constitution to get the smaller states to join the union. Without these devices there would be no United States today, and if they are removed, it is almost certain that the Union will be dissolved.

by: Johnny Tremain

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:56:21 +0000

Professor Sabato:

What does ye think of a nation that has criminlized and wastes the monies it extracts from its citizens to destroy and make against our laws that which was once grown liberally on our soils by our Founding Fathers: hemp. Should not the citizens of our respective states be allowed their self-determination as to their laws free from the intrusion of a federal government? I ask you, sir.

God speed: Johnny.

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by: richard andrews

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:06:30 +0000

Of the sample of 6 proposals set out, fully one half would have the effect of INCREASING the authority/power of the national government, either vis-a-vis the states or the citizens directly - hardly something for which there is any crying need! If representative of his other profers, this does not bode well for America. The other three schemes are dubious as well; two are rather ‘presentist’ and Bush-centric (addressing Congres’ inability to cut off funding for the current war in Iraq, and W getting to appoint smart, relatively young lawyers to lifetime Supreme Court seats), and the other one assumes that somehow we have an insufficient number of natural-born Presidential candidates (!), when just between the major political parties we now have about 20!

by: SilentStorm

Thu, 27 Sep 2007 17:57:51 +0000

In the interest of brevity, I would like to just tackle point 2.

You do of course realize that we have this second legislative unit in the government called the House of Representatives?

You know, the one that has it’s representation based on total population per state, rather than what the Senate has, that being two representatives per state, period?

The unit that cannot pass laws into being without the Senate doing the same, just as the Senate must do with them?

The one that BALANCES OUT THE OTHER JUST FINE AND RENDERS MOOT THE NEED TO DO SUCH AN IDIOTIC THING AS YOU SUGGEST IN THE FIRST PLACE?

!endrant