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To: tejek who wrote (794145)	7/8/2014 2:16:24 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (3) of 1577168

>> In any event, they got some important things wrong, most glaringly their document’s acceptance of slavery They didn't "get it wrong." They wisely recognized that if they tried to deal with the slavery problem at that time there would have been no United States. It simply wouldn't have happened. That was the point of the "3/5 Compromise". To have tried to abolish slavery in the Constitution would have guaranteed there was no Constitution, as it was a matter of economic survival for many in the South. >> Their view is that by empowering the wealthy in our political system, Supreme Court decisions such as Citizens United directly contradict the Constitution’s central commitment to shared self-rule. It is a naive POV. Citizens United is a badly needed offset to the power of incumbency. If you want to amend the Constitution to put in term limits on senators and representatives I would gladly support undoing Citizens United. As it now stands you can't get rid of a Harry Reid because he simply has too much money backing him; Citizens United at least provides an opportunity for ordinary people to fight what amounts to institutionalized political corruption in the form of incumbency.

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