Originally Posted by
oladub
Wanted? Not sure but thats part of what they left behind. Another part of original intent was the inclusion of an amendment mechanism to modify the Constitution. It was this provision, more than activist judges and other bottom feeders, that expanded voting rights.
Jefferson, a slaveholder, is said to have wanted to restrict slavery. He got, instead, a Constitution that outlawed slavery 60 years later.
Its the 'activist judges and other bottom feeders' you mentioned who have done so much for manifest destiny by allowing a string of illegal wars funded with fiat money and debt and have also ruled that corporations are artificial persons who can be given our tax money to offset their mismanagement. Which brings us back to a government that allow the corporatization of our lives.
When Congress passed Bush's Wall Street bailout just weeks before an election, govcorp America knew that it had won - that Americans would lamely accept whatever the federal government and its large corporate owners wanted.