The Constitution is difficult to update
- It does not contain a provision for recall elections, a useful legal innovation that had not yet been invented in 1788
- Another hole is the absence of a provision prohibiting politicians from using public monies to buy votes
- The Framers of the Constitution thought they had solved this problem by mandating a small federal government with limited enumerated powers
- Gradually the federal leviathan took more and more power unto itself, until today "federal money" is a powerful instrument of social control
- When government grows that big and powerful, politicians will find a way to warp power for their own ends
Impeachment
- The Constitution says that the federal judiciary has jurisdiction over "cases or controversies" arising under federal law, but as numerous eminent constitutional scholars have pointed out, the courts have essentially read the word "controversies" out of the document.
- That makes the judges' jobs easier, but it deprives us of an important check on the misuse of government power for improper purposes.
- That leaves only one possible check against federal spending to buy votes: impeachment.
https://spectator.org/politicians-buy-votes-public-money-inflation/
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