When
the Constitution of the U.S.A. was written, news took weeks to travel
from one city to the next; it was necessary for a representative to
be chosen to assuage the mood of the people around him and to decide
for those people great and pressing matters at places distant and
inconvenient to reach.
In our
modern time, however, news travels at the speed of light, and the
citizens can speak to one another at any time and in any place, and
they can be called upon, individually and instantly, for their
opinion on great and pressing matters. The system
of representative democracy under which America currently suffers
grants political power to a small number of individuals who are in
anything but name the princes of this republic. Individuals who have
power will be corrupted invariably by that power. Therefore,
we need to draw up a new Constitution, laying its
foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form,
as to us shall seem most likely to effect our Safety and Happiness.
The
People shall be Safe and Happy when no single person holds power over
a nation.
Spes
Mea In Ratio Est - 場黑麥
John Paul Roggenkamp
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