The
> U.S. "Founding Fathers" created a system designed to
> limit popular
> sovereignty and insulate a propertied ruling class
> against the
> depredations of the mob - or, as Madison listed the
> dangers in
> Federalist No. 10
> <http://www.mcs.net/~knautzr/fed/fed10.htm>: "a
> rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for
> an equal
> division of property, or for any other improper or
> wicked project."
>
So, you can find absolutly nothing admirable about the US system, even in the context of 18th-century absolute monarchy? I'm not a raving patriot, but this seems a little harsh to me...
JIm Baird
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