>I am increasingly persuaded that the Earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to its laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.John Adams: But surely the Constitution, as it did with the ones we wrote for our own states, is meant to establish the stability and the long-term legality essential to the continuation of a civilized society.what does this mean?
>>217794796Jefferson was trying to resolve a contradiction where we insist we have consent to the establishment of the current form of government despite all the framers and those who have their consent long having since passed. See Lysander Spooner on this discussion. To reconcile this, Jefferson advocated for recurrent constitutional conventions each generation to modify the form of government. Adams thinks these recurrent conventions would be destabilizing because the Constitution could leave one of these conventions looking entirely different.
>>217794796Jefferson envisioned the Constitution as something that would be regularly thrown out and replaced with better articles in subsequent generations. He would be aghast at the stagnation of this Republic in modernity.
>>217794796Jefferson was being a smelly hippy and Adams was being a based centrist who understood the compromises necessary to govern.
>>217794942Both agreed that only whites are American
He would've been a revolutionary whackjob without puritanical christianity and the other founders keeping him on a leash.
>>217794961Adams and Jefferson were not in Congress when this was passed
>>217794961actually Adams didn't really believe that, it was just one of the compromises.
>>217794796They didn't have as much generational imbalance. There were very few 70+ year olds around and commoner men under 30 basically had no say in society either. So 30-60 year old men rightly ruled.Now we have 80 year olds using <30 year old retards and women to control the rest of society.
>>217794796it means that john adams didn't know what a machine gun was
>>217794901>Lysander SpoonerFilthy communist >>217794916>Jefferson envisioned the Constitution as something that would be regularly thrown out and replaced with better articles in subsequent generations...And this is how you hand power to Communists and foreign subversives as we are experiencing right now.
Bamp./tv/ needs more Founding Fathers discussion.
>>217796018I really enjoyed the Ben Franklin series on Apple Plus
>>217795106> filthy communistSpooner was a mutualist, and even there he was not principally opposed to rent. What makes him filthy?> And this is how you hand power to Communists and foreign subversives as we are experiencing right now.What? How can you claim an institution we don’t have will lead to the consequences we are currently facing with our actually existing institutions?>>217796018Idk anon, most people here are midwits
>>217795106Trump is a fascist, not a communistLefties have no power at any level in the government
