[MD] Value and the Individual

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting David M <davidint at blueyonder.co.uk>:

> Hi Platt
> 
> The state should be a co-operative venture,
> where we keep binding laws to an agreed
> minimum, if we are wise. Generally it seems
> to be the tool of elites, at best struggling
> with each other to give us some balance of powers
> perhaps. I think I hope that such co-operation
> can deliver more than you do and you fear it
> leads to too much state control, but different
> polities should be free to choose how far they
> want to balance co-operative gains against
> individual freedoms that require levels of
> autonomy and self-reliance that perhaps modern
> ways of life have made too difficult or even too
> low in living standards.
> 

Hi David M, 

Sounds to me when you say "co-operative venture" that you are
willing to abide by simple majority votes. The Founding Fathers
saw the danger of mobocracy and devised a republic full of checks
and balances, and the people added individual protections from the
mob in the Bill of Rights.

Perhaps I have read you wrong. But it seems to me the political system
representd by the U.S. Consititution is the best created so far. The only
provision I would change would be the one that gives Congress the power
to regulate interstate commerce. That his led to all sorts of interference
in the Dynamic free market.

Platt
  


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