Friday, May 11, 2018

Do "We The People" need to decrease the awe in which the constituted authority is held in order to increase all general taxpayers chances against future taxation tyranny?

“Only I can fix” is Donald Trump’s illiterate shorthand for the idea that presidents are, like kings, products of divine election. 

George Washington never said anything like that; 

he didn’t need to convince anybody that he was the man for the job, and he knew that the job was governing, not ruling.

When he was named president of the Constitutional Convention, George Washington didn’t set his sights on inspiring awe or on any exercise in political and philosophical grandiosity intended to “command subjection,” in the Reverend Walsh’s words, but instead suggested a much more modest target: “Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair.”















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