![]() ![]() He didn’t say equality or prosperity broadly shared, right? So it’s all about protecting property from the masses who would seek redistributive reforms, and John Adams warned of that. Mike Lee is an economic libertarian, and in his tweet he emphasized liberty and prosperity. And that is the history that these Republican figures are actually conjuring when they talk about the United States being a constitutional republic, not a democracy. John Adams wrote at length about how terrible it would be if you had a system where there’s rule of the majority, because the impoverished masses would vote to redistribute wealth. And that’s one of their words, right? Madison said that it’s very important to structure the Senate as they did to protect the rights of the opulent minority against the landless masses. Democratic republic - a state in which the supreme power rests in the body of citizens entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. But they were very concerned with the rights of the opulent. They didn’t understand the phrase minority rights as we understand it today-protections for trans people, immigrants, et cetera. The Founding Fathers were very concerned with protecting minority rights. This is why it’s important to understand the history of this country. Do these conservatives have a bit of a point when they argue that the Founding Fathers were concerned about too much democracy? ![]()
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