Posadas [he/him, they/them] to chapotraphouse • 2 years agoUS Supreme Court is going to hold a death to "democracy" hearing todayimagemessage-square48 fedilinkarrow-up185file-text
arrow-up185imageUS Supreme Court is going to hold a death to "democracy" hearing todayPosadas [he/him, they/them] to chapotraphouse • 2 years agomessage-square48 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareemizeko [they/them]hexbear42·2 years ago In England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of the landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place. If these observations be just, our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation. Landholders ought to have a share in the government, to support these invaluable interests and to balance and check the other. They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. The senate, therefore, ought to be this body; and to answer these purposes, they ought to have permanency and stability. -James Madison link
minus-squareRION [she/her]hexbear32·2 years ago They ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority. I'd heard the federalists papers and adjacent docs were pretty mask off but holy shit link
minus-squarebbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]hexbear8·2 years agoNot an agrarian law!!! Anything but that! link
-James Madison
I'd heard the federalists papers and adjacent docs were pretty mask off but holy shit
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Not an agrarian law!!! Anything but that!