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Rhino <
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Jacob Rees-Mogg celebrates America in his daily video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0oNtAaBFZc [9 minutes]
It's based on the English Bill of Rights! (The Second Amendment) England
wanted a Protestant militia to stave off a Catholic invasion. Our motive
wasn't fear of an invasion, although the Founding Fathers thought we
could use militias in lieu of a standing army.
The Virginians who wrote the Constitution were concerned about slave
revolts as slaves outnumbered free whites in Virginia 4:1.
The First Amendment and the Fifth Amendment are rights the English
assume they have but they keep getting chipped away.
The Establishment clause is aimed directly at the Church of England, of
course.
He got the Enumeration clause wrong; nearly everybody does. For the
purpose of apportionment of the House of Representatives, the non-slave
states wanted ZERO slaves counted as persons, somehow not thinking the
Southern gentlement elected to represent them would truly represent
their interest. The slave states wanted the entire enslaved population
counted. 3/5 was a compromise.
The Senate was part of the compromise to protect the smaller states...
from Virginia, which had the bulk of the population and the most
political power.
He really gets "judges ultimately get to make the law because of a
codified, written constitution". Er, no. Marbury v. Madison, in which
the Marshall court declared the principle of judicial review, is based
on the English common law tradition that judges state the law! He's
correct that judicial review is final when interpreting constitutional
law, till a case is overturned, but the courts do not have final say on statutory law. And, in truth, all too often, legal drafting of the law
was sloppy and it's not the job of the courts to clean up Congress's
mess.
Generally, though, I a delighted that he would adopt much of our
Constitution to restore liberty in hs country.
Hope he does an Adam Smith video. Our Declaration of Independence isn't
the only inportant thing written in 1776.
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