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Being a city and attempting to fight Genghis Kahn
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Being a city and attempting to fight Genghis Kahn There is a science fiction novel about that. Some modern man somehow got sent back in time, and he taught a city various ways to defend against Khan, showing them, for example, how to make gun powder and cannons.
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I didn't watch the video. Was women's suffrage on the list?  The XVI, XVII, XVIII, XXVI amendments. What a National Socialist/Communist stain on our Constitutional Republic. Article V Convention of States can't happen fast enough. GR
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17th Amendment.
The Founding Fathers set it up so that the people directly elected the members of the house while the state legislatures appointed people to the senate. This was because congress was envisioned as having one part directly representing the people (the House of Representatives) while the other part represented the states (the senate). The number of seats in the house was based on population while the senate seats were intended to put the states on equal footing with 2 each. Because the state legislatures appointed the senate no state could bring undue influence on another state in the selection of senators.
This all changed when they put the 17th amendment in place which led to the direct election of the senators. So rather than representing the states on equal footing they are now subject to election and this has allowed $$$ from states like CA, NY, NJ, IL etc... to flow into states like TX, CO, MT, TN, FL etc... to influence the election of senators. The original process was an effective check and balance and when they did away with it, the process went to hell.
By the way it was the progressives under Woodrow Wilson that pushed through the 17th amendment. It should be repealed! The left would love to both eliminate the electoral college and change the number of senators to match the population. That would put the government totally under the control of a half dozen large cities
“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
― George Orwell
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The left would love to both eliminate the electoral college and change the number of senators to match the population. That would put the government totally under the control of a half dozen large cities It's pretty close to that already.
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Not picking our own cotton?
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Divergent diamonds followed closely by traffic circles. Both inventors need kicked in the gooch!
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I prefer traffic circles to four way stop signs.
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Well this is a fine pickle we're in, should'a listened to Joe McCarthy and George Orwell I guess.
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Not restricting the vote to landowners
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I didn't watch the video. Was women's suffrage on the list? I haven't watched it yet either but that is on my top 5. Hadrian not finishing the job in Judea is probably at the top.
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Trying to gain voting influence by encouraging your base to spay and neuter themselves and their kids.
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Quote: ( unnamed) "been prtty deep in the cooler todaay "
Television and radio are most effective when people question little and think even less.
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Letting women vote, drive and work. Public education. Tolerating communism and those who support it. All of these somehow connected….
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Mentioned above but letting people that don't own property or pay taxes vote.
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That would be an oligarchy just one very small step away from feudalism. One of the worst ideas in history.
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Wosrt ideas...
Liberals, democrats, socialism, communism, vegetarianism, anti-gun bullshit...may come up with a few more.
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Safety gas cans, DEF fluid, the working/voting woman, lawyers, 270’s, unions, hippies, oh and the bastards who invented them plastic bags in the produce section.
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Replacing "the ownership or property" with the "pursuit of happiness."
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The idea that the government can solve problems.
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The idea that the government can solve problems. You would likely enjoy the classic treatise Our Enemy The State, by Albert Jay Nock.
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