Why is it that we've been as a species in the same situations so repeatedly, and yet we always have to find out for ourselves. Why can't we learn some lessons from history and evolve a bit?
Take for example this quote from All the Way Down the Slippery Slope: Gun Prohibition in England and Some Lesson
"In the period leading up to the Glorious Revolution, the Stuart monarchs adopted a radical policy of personal disarmament toward those who politically threatened their royal prerogatives. This included the militia of armed freemen as well as direct political rivals. Through a series of parliamentary enactments, they tried registration of possession, registration of sales, hunting restrictions,[16] possession bans ostensibly aimed at controlling illegal hunting, restrictions on personal arms possessed by the militia,[17] warrantless searches, and confiscations.[18] By 1689, the Stuart monarchs had succeeded, not at full disarmament, but at alienating their "allies" as well as their opponents and losing their throne in a bloodless revolution."
The rest is at:
http://www.2ndlawlib.org/journals/okslip.html#h7
We are there, right now, and so few appreciate it. You know what the people of that era did about it? They forced the scum that were oppressing them to sign the magna-carte.
There's been a lot of talk about revolution, but still, it's not realistic at this point. What we need is our own magne-carte, and we've already got it in the constitution. The problem is, how do we safegaurd from it happening again? We'd have the same system we had when this country was formed, and look how it's ended up. We need a better organizational system for the government, and we need incentives for the legislature to stop passing a constant stream of new laws. There's something like 29,000 laws in this country, and yet ignorance is no excuse in court.
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The Alcove
I twist the facts until they tell the truth. -Some intellectual sadist
The Bill of Rights is a document of brilliance, a document of wisdom, and it is the ultimate law, spoken or not, for the very concept of a society that holds liberty above the desire for ever greater power. -Me
Take for example this quote from All the Way Down the Slippery Slope: Gun Prohibition in England and Some Lesson
"In the period leading up to the Glorious Revolution, the Stuart monarchs adopted a radical policy of personal disarmament toward those who politically threatened their royal prerogatives. This included the militia of armed freemen as well as direct political rivals. Through a series of parliamentary enactments, they tried registration of possession, registration of sales, hunting restrictions,[16] possession bans ostensibly aimed at controlling illegal hunting, restrictions on personal arms possessed by the militia,[17] warrantless searches, and confiscations.[18] By 1689, the Stuart monarchs had succeeded, not at full disarmament, but at alienating their "allies" as well as their opponents and losing their throne in a bloodless revolution."
The rest is at:
http://www.2ndlawlib.org/journals/okslip.html#h7
We are there, right now, and so few appreciate it. You know what the people of that era did about it? They forced the scum that were oppressing them to sign the magna-carte.
There's been a lot of talk about revolution, but still, it's not realistic at this point. What we need is our own magne-carte, and we've already got it in the constitution. The problem is, how do we safegaurd from it happening again? We'd have the same system we had when this country was formed, and look how it's ended up. We need a better organizational system for the government, and we need incentives for the legislature to stop passing a constant stream of new laws. There's something like 29,000 laws in this country, and yet ignorance is no excuse in court.
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The Alcove
I twist the facts until they tell the truth. -Some intellectual sadist
The Bill of Rights is a document of brilliance, a document of wisdom, and it is the ultimate law, spoken or not, for the very concept of a society that holds liberty above the desire for ever greater power. -Me