Of all the elements self-government needs to survive, it’s this awareness — the knowledge that power wanes, for you and your opponents — that matters most.
keep peace by keeping both the winner and the loser planning for the next election?
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- Nov 2020
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When a democracy loses this awareness, when there is a party or a faction or even a demographic that refuses to admit or accept defeat, it finds itself on life-support, risking terminal decline.
A way to keep peace but unnecesary a way to keep the right thing. It seesm like peace is always more important than rightness in a big picture.
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The reasons for supporting Burr, admitted Theodore Sedgwick, “are of a negative nature.” Burr was “not a Democrat … not an enthusiastic theorist … not under the direction of Virginian Jacobins … not a declared infidel.”
It seems like they are electing for their self interest not for the interest of the nation, the state, or the people.
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both sides convinced that the other would unravel the American experiment and bring the republic to either anarchy or despotism
Back to the question I post before this, there is no clear answer to such question. There can be views arguing for the harm and benefit for both kinds of the government. In this case, how do we decide who are capitable of making the decision during the election. The state? the people? What if the majority is not right? I understand it majortiy can be a efficient way to solve a problem for many peoples. Does it mean that election is only a mean to maintain the balance of people with different standpoints but incaptable of solving the problem different parties have fighting over for centuries? If this is the case, it seems that election is not a solution to the problem that it suppose to address.
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“states could judge for themselves the constitutionality of acts of Congress.”
Even those people always claim that they are the voice of the people, if a nation-centirc rule is one monarchy, why the rule of states is not multiples monarchies? How can state-rule represent people?
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The past isn’t a road map to the present — or even a travel guide — but there’s tremendous value in knowing how our predecessors tackled the challenges of their era.
Different situations and different ideologies make many decisions and actions in the past somehow irrelevant and unusable in the present time. What is good and succeseful in the past can be a failure in the present though.
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- Sep 2020
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embrace the democratic ideals of a common good. We are the most likely to support programs like universal health care and a higher minimum wage, and to oppose programs that harm the most vulnerable.
This reminds me of the ideals of the BLM movement. Some said the looting in the BLM movement is a protest against the capitalists who take all the money.
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They had been made black by those people who believed that they were white
The label may be one the most important reason why the racism continues. The label is influential to both those who are labeled and those who view the labeled men.
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progressive policies and laws black people had championed
Did the white discriminate the black for a different reason during the second slavery? The black people seemed to be great competitors in job as they were hardworking and according to their contribution in legislator system. Could the white feel a sense of being replaced and then began the Great Nadir to stop the black from keep developing and competing with them?
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Ever since, nearly all other marginalized groups have used the 14th Amendment in their fights for equality
Did the BLM movement utilize the 14th Amendment?
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personal property
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Monticello
Did Jefferson support forced-labor camps in public while penned that "all men are created equal?"
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