Re: CNN Trump interview
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That means you can't read
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Date: August 20, 2015 11:57AM
fact check 4 u Wrote:
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> Thomas Jefferson Wrote:
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> > Literal interpretation Wrote:
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> > > dumbass libturdz. Wrote:
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> > > > Our government was not intended to have
> > career
> > > politicians like we have today.
> > >
> > > It doesn't say that anywhere in the
> > constitution.
> > > They could've easily written term limits into
> > it,
> > > but they didn't.
> > >
> > > I'm not saying career politicians are a good
> > > thing, but saying that "the founding fathers
> > and
> > > the constitution" didn't intend to have
> career
> > > politicians is just fucking dumb. Neither
> the
> > > letter nor spirit of the document implies
> that.
> >
> >
> > "I proposed the representatives (and not the
> > people) should choose the [State] Senate... To
> > make them independent I had proposed that they
> > should hold their places for nine years and
> then
> > go out (one third every three years) and be
> > incapable forever of being re-elected to that
> > house. My idea was that if they might be
> > re-elected, they would be casting their eye
> > forward to the period of election (however
> > distant) and be currying favor with the
> electors
> > and consequently dependent on them. My reason
> for
> > fixing them in office for a term of years
> rather
> > than for life was that they might have an idea
> > that they were at a certain period to return
> into
> > the mass of the people and become the governed
> > instead of the governor, which might still keep
> > alive that regard to the public good that
> > otherwise they might perhaps be induced by
> their
> > independence to forget."
>
> The founding fathers disagreed with Jefferson so
> much that they didn't put those limits into the
> Constitution. It's obviously not what they
> wanted. That means the OP is wrong.
The OP didn't say anything about term limits. The first poster who did mention anything along those lines got it right. They did not intend to have a permanent elite political class. The subject has been beat to death over the years, most recently in a serious way in the mid-90s. The end result being the Supreme Court decision in U.S. Term Limits v Thornton which was decided on the basis of Federal preemption primarily vs intent and was a 5-4 decision. So not nearly as clear as you try to make it out to be.