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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The GOP wants to preserve the representative republic because what distinguishes it from a democracy is the idea that your rights are yours by birth, not by government. Hence you were born with a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Slavery was an abomination because it stripped people of all three of these. Government was the entity enslaving people. In a democracy, what the government gives, the government can later take away. Not ideal. The Constitution limits Federal power for this reason. [/quote]

That’s some delusion right there. Republicans want a weak federal government so their states can operate as corrupt and bigoted police states. The federal government didn’t enslave people, but until the Civil War and Reconstruction it weakly allowed states to let their residents enslave people. Republicans then organized by war and Constitutional amendment to nullify the presumption that the Constitution and Bill of Rights did not apply to the states. Republicans today take the old bigots position that states with Republican governments can deny rights to anyone they choose and the Right-wing Supreme Court will ensure that the federal government can’t do anything to stop them.  [/quote]

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