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Comment by Ancapistani

6 days ago

I’m quite familiar.

My point is that —- regardless of appropriateness —- this is about as far from “unprecedented” as can be imagined.

Congress didn’t declare ware on Syria, or Iraq, or Yemen, or Somalia, or any number of other African countries when the US attacked them during the Biden administration.

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verzali  6 days ago

So the constitution is worthless then?

  • Ancapistani  6 days ago

    That’s not what I was saying, but I didn’t argue when smarter men than I said exactly that:

        But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
    - Lysander Spooner

    • mothballed  6 days ago

      Liberia has/had a nearly identical constitution and look at them. It was just a roadmap for what the US could become if we became even more savage like them. It was never the Constitution that made the USA special, in other hands you got what we're getting now.

      You always needed a populace that respected life, liberty, and property above all in order to have a prayer of it working out; that is long gone if it ever existed.