I think everyone in Congress, House and Senate, needs to read
This book.
If the Constitution's framers were as pig headed as our current legislative body, there would never have been a United States.
Book was published in 2013, and the author's motivation was to lay bear the fiction of a set of Founding Fathers in lock step. It's nonsense when we talk about what "The Founding Fathers intended".
They fought mercilessly with each other, sometimes physically, but for the good of the entire young nation, held their noses and came up with a compromise that worked. And they then went home and campaigned hard for provisions that they in some cases bitterly opposed during negotiations.
Because that's how we reconcile a gazillion different points of view. That's democracy. Too many now think it is their way or the highway, and they should be at war with those who disagree with them.
Either that changes, on both sides of the aisle, or HC will not be the only disaster we'll be struggling with in years to come.
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Posted: 07/28/2017 at 08:42AM