10-21-2016, 02:25 PM
(10-21-2016, 02:13 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: A system of government less relevant today than it was in 1787, but one that has definitely defined the US. It was the right response to the failures of the Articles of Confederation and a great balance between Madison, Hamilton, and their peers and those like Jefferson who opposed a strong central government. Certainly necessary to ensure we never had an autocracy.
Without it, I don't think our state identities would be as strong today as they are. In 1787, we were Marylanders, and Virginians, and New Yorkers loosely bonded together by a weak central government. We were truly united states (in the true definition of the word), not one state as we are today. Today we are Americans who also take pride in the state or region we hail from.
You touch on something that I think a lot of people fail to realize, and that is that the Constitution is not intended to solve our problems in this modern age, it was intended to fix the problems with the Articles of Confederation. It's something I think a lot of people would do well to keep in mind when we discuss issues of the Constitution.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
