He was saying that the majority can’t be trusted to rule on their own and they need to be controlled, otherwise they wouldn’t have put non-electoral branches into the Constitution.
The Senate wasn’t even elected until 1913! The Supreme Court still is an unelected body, and we still have an Electoral College. Even if we ignore the fact that slaves couldn’t vote (we shouldn’t ignore it, but even if we do) women couldn’t vote and they’re half the fucking country! In most states you had to own property to vote, which was only 6% of the fucking population! These mechanisms were put in by the Founders because they wanted to restrain democracy and you only deny this because you were trained this way by your own government-run schools. Try reading something that wasn’t assigned by the government. I recommend Lies My Teacher Told Me, The American Counterrevolution of 1776, and Black Reconstruction.
The only reason elections are in the Constitution is because they needed popular support for their independence from England. People wouldn’t have picked up guns to fight for independence unless they got something out of it, and so they promised rich land owners that they could have a say in the government. That’s it.
Face facts, the US is not a democracy and it never was and it wasn’t intended to be.
He was saying that the majority can’t be trusted to rule on their own and they need to be controlled, otherwise they wouldn’t have put non-electoral branches into the Constitution.
The Senate wasn’t even elected until 1913! The Supreme Court still is an unelected body, and we still have an Electoral College. Even if we ignore the fact that slaves couldn’t vote (we shouldn’t ignore it, but even if we do) women couldn’t vote and they’re half the fucking country! In most states you had to own property to vote, which was only 6% of the fucking population! These mechanisms were put in by the Founders because they wanted to restrain democracy and you only deny this because you were trained this way by your own government-run schools. Try reading something that wasn’t assigned by the government. I recommend Lies My Teacher Told Me, The American Counterrevolution of 1776, and Black Reconstruction.
The only reason elections are in the Constitution is because they needed popular support for their independence from England. People wouldn’t have picked up guns to fight for independence unless they got something out of it, and so they promised rich land owners that they could have a say in the government. That’s it.
Face facts, the US is not a democracy and it never was and it wasn’t intended to be.