I remember, sometime in the Reagan years, somebody presenting himself as affiliated with the Federalist Society saying that the word "democracy" doesn't appear in the Constitution, so the founders didn't create a democracy, simply a republic. I'm pretty sure I heard that idea more than once, but even if I only heard it twice, it had an o…
I remember, sometime in the Reagan years, somebody presenting himself as affiliated with the Federalist Society saying that the word "democracy" doesn't appear in the Constitution, so the founders didn't create a democracy, simply a republic. I'm pretty sure I heard that idea more than once, but even if I only heard it twice, it had an outsized effect on me because I thought it was a dangerous proposition, not the least for its bald-faced disingenuousness. If the assembly instructions for a Ford F150 don't contain the phrase "pickup truck," does that mean a Ford F-150 isn't a pickup truck? The founders created a set of assembly instructions for a democratic republic. Take democracy out of the picture and you have something outside the boundaries of the founders' constitutional vision. The comments from Alito, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch were an amplification of that disingenuous democracy-erasing Federalist Society proposition I first heard in the 80s. And they would have you believe that only their opinions matter. Time to add some new seats to the bench. Make some noise with your people in Congress.
I remember, sometime in the Reagan years, somebody presenting himself as affiliated with the Federalist Society saying that the word "democracy" doesn't appear in the Constitution, so the founders didn't create a democracy, simply a republic. I'm pretty sure I heard that idea more than once, but even if I only heard it twice, it had an outsized effect on me because I thought it was a dangerous proposition, not the least for its bald-faced disingenuousness. If the assembly instructions for a Ford F150 don't contain the phrase "pickup truck," does that mean a Ford F-150 isn't a pickup truck? The founders created a set of assembly instructions for a democratic republic. Take democracy out of the picture and you have something outside the boundaries of the founders' constitutional vision. The comments from Alito, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch were an amplification of that disingenuous democracy-erasing Federalist Society proposition I first heard in the 80s. And they would have you believe that only their opinions matter. Time to add some new seats to the bench. Make some noise with your people in Congress.