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Further elaborating on alterations: "Towards the preservation of your government, and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. ___One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system, and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.___ In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember, especially, that for the efficient management of your common interests, in a country so extensive as ours, a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property."

@Jeremy tldr you're a faggot

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"It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositaries, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, ___it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at any time yield."___

>tfw Copypasta

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Anyone, here, could only be arguing for term limits for one of two reason: A) they're repeating what they hear and may not be explicitly acting on bad faith, or B) they believe it'll accelerate the ability for extremists to attain office by cycling through more people and forcing out those who hold it together. They know it'll destabilize the legislature, once and for all. My two cents, along with *the* Father of our nation, @Scale_e.

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"All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community; and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels and modified by mutual interests.

However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion. . . .

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty."

Tfw the opponent doesn’t stand a chance

Lmfao

Dude you’re copying the fucking New Testament here

Wall of text

They've got no idea.

https://tenor.com/view/snake-strike-rattle-gif-12291395

Snek

https://tenor.com/view/columbia-fighting-mad-lady-liberty-gif-15956716

Based

Based indeed.

Sucking Washingtons ghost dick much

He who finds it disadvantageous, for public consumptions of the knowledge contained, attempts to discredit its utility by claiming its diffusion is, as he candidly put it, "suckling a ghost dick."

Perhaps then all knowledge is nothing more.

Lol good show

don't wear out your thesaurus

This, tbh.

Old english

the destroyer of cretins

uncultured swine

I don't need fancy quotes. I'll beat you with my sexy looks.

so whats even being argued here?

Also, back in the day- they had the time to invest the sharpening of their ideas and discipline of expression, no TV, no radio, fewer distractions and a greater appreciation for the natural world

where did the debate channel go

Poofed.

It collapsed in on itself with the sheer bulk of BKP's walls of text

whatever im posting in other politics then

Aha.

Back in the day, when you only had books, you only got ideas and lexicon from the most prestigious and high-quality sources

Leave veethena for the real scholars

But now people are getting their vocabulary from Tiktok

@ACSD_ Term limits.

There was that experiment conducted by a small group of professors, submitting bogus papers for academic approval, exposing the horseshit processes in many "respected" learning institutions.

sure some of you remember that one from a few years back

Well not respected, so much as established

to pay so much, get good grades, graduate- then see such a thing from your school...suddenly feel like the smartest kid with downs syndrome