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Originally Posted by Boreas

The problem is that we have 9 unelected "lords" sitting on the Supreme Court. They have the power to revise, repeal or make law as they, and they alone, see fit. These powers aren't granted to them in the Constitution. They're ones that they arrogated to themselves in Marbury v. Madison. They are totally unaccountable. They serve for life unless impeached, a thing we have never tried in the entire history of this misbegotten country. Do you really think they would give a shit if we took to the streets? I don't.

John

We are in perfect agreement John - again! I think hell frozen over

Originally Posted by finnbow

While true, I still trust the robed cabal more than I do the Executive or Legislative branch.

Thus ends the great experiment?

Originally Posted by Boreas

I'm slowly coming to the conclusion that large, populous nations are ungovernable. The problem is that a world consisting of hundreds or thousands of small well-administered countries would need to form alliances, entities like the EU or the UN and these entities seem ineffectual at best and counter-productive at worst.

That was what the whole State in their sphere/Federal in theirs was hoping to do, to govern large areas of diverse people. However slavery killed it, if it wouldn't have been doomed for other reasons.

Pete