> Foundations and foundational aims are not necessarily optimal...

Is there a more evocative example than the difference between the
US & the UK disposition of slavery?

About a million dead, more or less.

Jack

On 4/6/08, Apptech <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> > Interested foreign nationals may benefit from perusal of
> > "The Federalist Papers",
> > a compendium of the debate amongst the Founders that
> > preceded the adoption
> > of the Constitution - The 2nd Amendment was clearly
> > intended as a check on
> > the power of the Executive by the Framers.
>
> > This does'nt suit some folks - They have the remedy of
> > amending the Constitution.
>
> >From where this "interested foreign national" stands out on
> the leading edge of the fading empire (which y'All were part
> of), misinterpreting and misrepresenting the true intentions
> of the US founders seems to be a national sport. As an
> apposite example, the current US official take on
> "separation of church and state" must have the founders in a
> state of ever increasing high speed rotation. The longer
> term consequences of such a stance can be seen by looking
> across the way to see how your nations founders are faring
> in consequence of having taken previously taken a similarly
> enlightened stand. Foundations and foundational aims are not
> necessarily optimal, and the various US constitutional
> amendments in part sought to remedy this. But where vested
> and/or unstated interests are allowed to creep in, and it's
> human nature for this to happen, then the outcomes are
> predictable. A 'win' today that frees you from an apparent
> evil is often the open door to a far greater one. Give it
> another 100 years or so (maybe 50) and your new ruler will
> be Great. [Lest the preceding be unclear I'm not largely
> talking about any claimed current administrative fascist
> tendencies].
>
>
>         Russell
>
>
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