• TerryTPlatypus@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      I’m sorry, did you meant the “checks and balances” that will be cashed for lobbying against the common interest of citizens? /j

    • AllonzeeLV@vlemmy.net
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      1 year ago

      Reminder, the framers were imperfect products of their time, many of whom owned slaves, suggested landowners be the only class allowed to vote, and created a flawed document that, while ahead of its time a quarter millenia ago in the age of gunpowder muskets and speed of horse communication, blue screened windows 95 style a long time ago in the face of modern scale and structural societal change.