| HappySqurriel said:
The two primary checks against the legislative branch becoming too corrupt are that they are bound by the constitution (which is protected by the supreme court) and they have to answer to their voters. When your judiciary “Gets into bed” with your legislative branch to pass laws that don’t need the approval of the electorate you’re no longer living in a constitutional democracy. |
How did it happen that a republic born of a rebellion against a king and parliament we did not elect has fallen under a tyranny of judges we did not elect? - Pat BuchananThe Left has found the Ho Chi Minh Trail around democracy...to impose its views and values upon our society without having to win elections or persuade elected legislators. - Pat Buchanan
Yet, today, America's leaders are reenacting every folly that brought these great powers [Russia, Germany, and Japan] to ruin -- from arrogance and hubris, to assertions of global hegemony, to imperial overstretch, to trumpeting new 'crusades,' to handing out war guarantees to regions and countries where Americans have never fought before. We are piling up the kind of commitments that produced the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
— Pat Buchanan – A Republic, Not an Empire
