Re 1, if that is the case why not support the Articles of Confederation instead? I also take exception to the underlying assumption that society needs top-down designing, but that’s a very deep debate.
But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas. … hat at any rate is the theory of our Constitution.
If that was really the theory—“checks and balances”—the Constitution was a huge step backward from the Articles of Confederation. (I don’t support the AoC, but I’d prefer them to the Constitution.)
Re 1, if that is the case why not support the Articles of Confederation instead?
I never said we should support it; I said we should care about it.
It would be silly to claim that anyone interested in FAI should be pro-Constitution; there were plenty of 18th century people who earnestly grappled with their version of the FAI problem and thought the Constitution was a bad idea. If you agree more with the anti-Federalists, fine! The point is that we should closely follow the results of the experiment, not that we should bark agreement with the particular set of hypotheses chosen by the Founding Fathers for extensive testing.
Re 1, if that is the case why not support the Articles of Confederation instead? I also take exception to the underlying assumption that society needs top-down designing, but that’s a very deep debate.
If that was really the theory—“checks and balances”—the Constitution was a huge step backward from the Articles of Confederation. (I don’t support the AoC, but I’d prefer them to the Constitution.)
I never said we should support it; I said we should care about it.
It would be silly to claim that anyone interested in FAI should be pro-Constitution; there were plenty of 18th century people who earnestly grappled with their version of the FAI problem and thought the Constitution was a bad idea. If you agree more with the anti-Federalists, fine! The point is that we should closely follow the results of the experiment, not that we should bark agreement with the particular set of hypotheses chosen by the Founding Fathers for extensive testing.