Impeach the U.S. Constitution

http://www.truthdig.com/articles/impeach-the-u-s-constitution-2/
Date Written:  2017-06-11
Publisher:  truthdig.com
Year Published:  2017
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX22231

This article explains that democracy was the last thing the U.S. founding fathers wanted to see break out in the new republic, and the Constitution was carefully crafted by propertied elites to protect the privileged from the 'wicked' masses.

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Excerpt: Anyone who doubts the anti-democratic character of the founders' world view should read The Federalist Papers, written by the leading advocates of the U.S. Constitution to garner support for their preferred form of national government in 1787 and 1788. In Federalist No. 10, James Madison argued that democracies were "spectacles of turbulence … incompatible with … the rights of property." Democratic governments gave rise, Madison felt, to "factious leaders" who could "kindle a flame" among dangerous masses for "wicked projects" like "abolition of debts" and "an equal division of property. … Extend the [geographic] sphere [of the U.S. republic]," Madison wrote, and it becomes "more difficult for all who feel it to discover their own strength and act in union with each other."