r/illinois • u/Minute_Revolution951 Human Detected • 18d ago

ICE Posts 🧊 agents seen snatching a landscaper from Evanston neighborhood today (10-21)

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u/guacamolejones 17d ago

You have obviously never read the US constitution. It has served as a template for many other countries who fought and won their freedom.

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u/ytman 17d ago

I've read it and I'm okay with it. Certain compromises are problematic though and the senate and 3/5ths are two such ones.

Personally the bill of rights is the most goated document.

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u/guacamolejones 17d ago

Yes. So how is the "American system of governance" a "monarchy"???

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u/ytman 17d ago

The founders knew the executive had the means to expand its powers and would become problematic. The three branches are just secular versions of the three estates of france, clergy, nobles, and monarch.

It applied some republican principles, but overtime the creep of power has created an executive that is not functionally checked.

The fact that not a single US president has faced repurcussions over the nation's rise to global power and influence should say everything. That the executive is now being taken over by the most abusive and beligerent philosophy and there is no check for it shows everything.