Hvilken politisk ideologi identificerer du dig mest med?
Who controls it tends to determine how trustworthy it can be. If we regulate it ourselves, it is us…
No other institution can do this – no business, no charity, no other institution. Government alone may say "do as we tell you or we'll send people with guns, and chains to cart you off to prison. We'll fine you, imprison, perhaps even execute you if you refuse to grant us your unquestioning obedience." That is the essence of political power. And it does not matter if that power comes from the people, an aristocracy, or a hereditary monarchy, it is still political power and still equally evil and dangerous. That, I think, is the fundamental difference between us. You believe in unlimited political power so long as it is in accordance with the will of the Majority. I believe that regardless of what any Majority thinks, we have a Constitution, delegating unto the federal government 19 powers which it may never go beyond, even if the majority votes for that. You want to maximise power for majorities, some people want to maximise powers for minorities, my ideology, constitutional republicanism (with a lowercase "r") advocates the middle ground – maximise power for individual men and women, and their families, not for aristocracy or the will of the majority. My principles are not based upon what the majority decides, nor what the aristocracy decides, but upon a Law that is Higher than any human law, and Rights that, being granted by God, are inalienable. That seems to be the fundamental difference between you and I.
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