The purpose of the Constitution was to shift power back away from the people…a democracy enacted by the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution reestablished a representative government over a republican government, wherein the only branch of government truly representative of the people would be the House of Representatives.
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We feel that we are losing our rights, but many of our “rights” were only ever imaginary.
Agreed. Rights don't exist.
To be fair, I'm not sure I'd ever want power in the hands of "the people." The people, as a concept, does not exist, and democracy of the masses is dangerous because the masses are easily manipulable or otherwise King Demos is a tyrannical ruler, governed by base instincts.
And because of this sentiment, we have an elite class of managers that constantly enact polities that roll up our rights, shift wealth out of our hands into theirs, privatize public resources to sell back to us, sacrifice social services for more lucrative exploits, and create ever more Orwellian surveillance policies sold to us as “protection.”
Maybe the public are dumb and don’t know what’s best. Or maybe it is inevitable that a class of managers will abuse the power they have over the people. I am of the masses, and I think I know what is best for me better than an in-elected oligarch.
The conventional case for adopting the Constitution is straight Stockholm Syndrome. The rulers found it too difficult to expropriate us under the Articles, so they "needed" more centralized power. I used different phrasing, but that's the argument.
I don't think the House of Representatives is representative of the people at all. I'm not sure what "the people" even means to be honest.
You’re absolutely right…the House, full of the ultra-rich living off of rents and corporate bribes in exchange for legal favors certainly isn’t representative of the people who labor for their money.
I meant to say the House is the only body directly elected by the people, rather than appointed by another body supposedly representing the people (Senate, President, Sup Court).