Interesting piece, Clay. I recommend others read it.
A suggestion or two if I may. First, add links to the cases. Second, consider augmenting the list with the cases that led to CU, like Buckley and Belotti. Just a thought.
Well if there's going to be a fourth constitution, let's get in on the act and insert an amendment to break the two-party duopoly, which is actually a corporate monopoly. (Remember Julius Nyerere's quip: "America, too, is a one-party state. But with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.")
Here goes:
"Recognizing that restricted choice of candidates and parties inhibits citizens' exercise of democracy and the necessary fluidity of policy, and unhealthily promotes entrenched interests, no law shall be enacted whose purpose, or predictable effect whether intended or not and whether primary or secondary, is to prevent or make onerous the appearance of any political parties, established or new, or of independent candidates on ballots, nor their participation in pre-election events on an equal footing with established parties' candidates, nor their proportionate access to such public funding for political campaigning as may be available. Political parties may enact their own rules for selecting their candidates for office, but all such rules and practices are to be published, and violations of those rules shall be prosecuted as fraud."
I am betting our bettors will prefer a little nuanced indirection:
We shall preserve property and the rights inherent in such and promote utilization of all resources by free market principles. Arbitration provided by mechanisms outlined in the body of this document shall be available for a suitable price that will resolve any disputes that are outside of market mechanisms.
Indirection indeed, SOS. There's no free market in free market.
(Kind of reminds me of Jesse Welles' song about United Health: "There ain't no You in United Health, there ain't no Me in the Company, there's no Us in the private trust. There's hardly humans in humanity."
https://open.substack.com/pub/clayjak/p/the-fedsoc-grift?r=9qphz&utm_medium=ios
Interesting piece, Clay. I recommend others read it.
A suggestion or two if I may. First, add links to the cases. Second, consider augmenting the list with the cases that led to CU, like Buckley and Belotti. Just a thought.
Well done; thanks.
Well if there's going to be a fourth constitution, let's get in on the act and insert an amendment to break the two-party duopoly, which is actually a corporate monopoly. (Remember Julius Nyerere's quip: "America, too, is a one-party state. But with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.")
Here goes:
"Recognizing that restricted choice of candidates and parties inhibits citizens' exercise of democracy and the necessary fluidity of policy, and unhealthily promotes entrenched interests, no law shall be enacted whose purpose, or predictable effect whether intended or not and whether primary or secondary, is to prevent or make onerous the appearance of any political parties, established or new, or of independent candidates on ballots, nor their participation in pre-election events on an equal footing with established parties' candidates, nor their proportionate access to such public funding for political campaigning as may be available. Political parties may enact their own rules for selecting their candidates for office, but all such rules and practices are to be published, and violations of those rules shall be prosecuted as fraud."
Thanks. Unfortunately, this isn't the Constitution as we'd like it to be. That would be a fun exercise.
This is the Constitution we're getting. Less fun. More filling.
Thomas
Seize the initiative!
I am betting our bettors will prefer a little nuanced indirection:
We shall preserve property and the rights inherent in such and promote utilization of all resources by free market principles. Arbitration provided by mechanisms outlined in the body of this document shall be available for a suitable price that will resolve any disputes that are outside of market mechanisms.
Indirection indeed, SOS. There's no free market in free market.
(Kind of reminds me of Jesse Welles' song about United Health: "There ain't no You in United Health, there ain't no Me in the Company, there's no Us in the private trust. There's hardly humans in humanity."
TL:DR: "don't quote laws to us, we who are girt with swords!" - Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus