Opinion | Independence Day 2023: Our out-of-control democracy WashTimesOpEd
This conundrum, along with the witty version of it put to a Boston crowd in 1775 by the little-known Colonial-era preacher with the famous uncle — Cotton Mather — addresses the age-old question of whether liberty can long survive in a democracy.was a Loyalist who, along with about one-third of American White men in 1776, opposed the American Revolution and favored continued governance by Britain.
Of course, the Senate, as originally crafted, did not consist of popularly elected senators. Rather, they were appointed by state legislatures to represent the sovereign states as states, not the people in them. He gave that speech in February 1791, 11 months before the addition of the Bill of Rights — the first 10 amendments — to the Constitution. Given the popular fears of a new central government, Madison assumed that the Bill of Rights would be quickly ratified.
President Ronald Reagan reminded the American public in his first inaugural address that the states formed the federal government, not the other way around. Had I been the scrivener of that speech, I’d have begged him to add: “And the powers that the states gave to the feds, they can take back.”
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