What went wrong?
>>18377218They undid the Articles. 1789 was a Masonic coup.
The Constitution is fine, but something went wrong in the education system
Read Tocqueville
>>18377251Tl;dr?
>>18377218biggest mistake was not having it require the phasing out of slavery over time
>>18377218Judicial activism and the philosophy of the living constitution. Basically, the constitution means whatever I want it to mean at this specific moment.
>>18377218Allowing women to vote
>>18377251Yeah but at the same time you really can't understand America from a distance if you really want to know the inner essence of it. Tocqueville failed because he couldn't experience America phenomenologically.
lmao
>>18378553>Believing that Housing and AI scams are real wealth.It will be funny to see America attempt to fight Chinese factories producing tanks with excel spreadsheets that say "My house is worth 20 Kazillion Dollars!"
>>18377218>What went wrong?The President should serve one ten year term to preserve some kinda continuity.Swapping out the President every four or eight years resulted in them constantly campaigning instead of being secure in their position and doing their job.
Bump
>>18377218They expanded the franchise to non-landowning males, allowing the ultra religious peasant psychos and moral puritans to corrupt the secular republic.
>>18378537That was neccesary otherwise they would have just thrown out the constitution 10 times like they do in France
>>18377218Why are people so overly dramatic when talking about the USA?Has anyone else noticed this? American history is always discussed, even by non Americans, with this bullshit Hollywood theatrical overemotion. Cunts are always making these grand declarations about how X is "what America has always stood for" or that Y "is what America TRULY is!" and that Z is "the end/decline/fall of the empire!!!"Nobody talks like this about French history, or Britain, or even ancient civilizations like China and Japan. It's really tiring for every discussion about the US to be mired in this emotional hissyfit quagmire and there never being a more sober and detached analysis. Is it just a result of it being the imperial core and therefore everyone having some emotional capital invested in its fate one way or another? Did faggots in the 1700s talk about France like this too?
>>18377251People always laugh about this picture to touch on the relative cultural ignorance of Americans, but desu how many other countries out there have populations where socialogical analysis of their culture is actually a mainstream widely read thing? You can't seriously believe the average Australian bloke who watches footy and drinks Four X has actually read Donald Horne in depth and seriously pondered on his writings, for instance.
>>18379661But modern day landowners would be elite retarded autists like Musk, Altman, and Zuckerberg. Do you really think they'd be good for the country?
>>18378647Counterpoint: If you're limited to a single term, and get to rule for such a long time once elected, there's basically no reason for the President not to just act a self-interested despot. The need to face reelection after four years keeps the President accountable to the people, at least to some degree.Your proposal would only work if the threshold for impeachment was lowered to a simple majority in the senate, or if there was some sort of mechanism for a recall vote by the people.
>>18377251We really should be reading more colonial era texts in school but people would be outraged over descriptions of the negroes and the indians lmao
>>18377218>What went wrong?the thirteenth amendment>>18377662you are like someone selling poison as if poison was good for people
>>18379685Parliamentarian rule isn't liked by Americans, but desu the ease of recalling and replacing a Prime Minister is one thing I always liked about it and wish we had in the USA. In Australia they'll literally just toss the guy out of office and have a new one in over the weekend, which also has the added benefit that no PM ever really develops any kind of Cult of Personality and people's political loyalties are still largely determined by party ideals rather than individual figures.
>>18379699Minor point, but Tocqueville isn't colonial era (pre-1783), he visited the early but already independent Republic in the 1800s.
>>18377218The main problem was when 20th century progressives decided the commerce and general welfare clauses could be a blank check for unlimited government expansion.
>>18379671i dunno, you tell me
