America Ended With The Depression

[PoliticalChic]

When this nation began, government never promised to remove the consequences of an individual's life choices. Heck, it was understood that there was a difference between government, and insurance! And the government was constrained by article 1, section 8, of the Constitution, which actually listed what the central government could meddle....er, consider as its venue. And this constraint reined in debt.
But it all changed with the Depression.....




1.. It was the shock of the Great Depression that altered the relationship between the people and their government. Fear lead to the dramatic change in national attitude regarding the role of government in manipulating the free market, and private businesses, aimed at bailing families out of trouble. Americans grew more willing to pay the variety of taxes demanded in exchange for federal protection, and some perception of security from the "dark side" of capitalism. No longer was community and commerce viewed as protector of financial security.




a. In the blink of an eye, 150 years of independence was abandoned for many, many Americans. Instead, they looked to the centralized federal government for employment guarantees, charity programs, and safety nets.

2. "Oh, yeah, that was something! He broke the tradition. My father told me: 'Republicans are the ship. All else is the sea.' Frederick Douglass said that. Negroes didn't go for Roosevelt much in '32. But the Works Progress Administration came along and Roosevelt came to be a god. It was really great. You worked, you got a paycheck, and you had some dignity. Even when a man raked leaves, he got paid, he had some dignity. All the songs they used to have about the WPA:

I went to the poll line and I voted
And I knew I voted the right way
So I'm asking you, Mr. President
Don't take away this W and P A "
From "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression," Studs Terkel.


a. In 1932, more than two-thirds of African-Americans voted against Roosevelt. When the election of 1936 took place, 75% voted for him.

3. "There is the passage from Genesis 25:29-34, which accurately describes the cultural shifts that took place during the Great Depression.
Read this, and replace "Jacob" with "Uncle Sam," "Esau," with "the People," and "birthright," with "freedom."

29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!”
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright."
Star Parker, "Uncle Sam's Plantation."





4. So, as a result, corrosive indolence warped a once healthy work ethic, and a new cultural ideal took hold in society. Once the needy got a taste of government handouts, the genie was out of the bottle. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness became the expectation of government obligation to provide happiness to everyone. Dependence begat a lower echelon of faithful voter. Politicians advanced the idea that the alleviation of poverty was the sole responsibility of politicians. What Tocqueville had predicted came to pass.
Ibid.

a. ”As he predicted, instilled was a view of government as a power “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” that “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America."



b. And Liberal/Progressive/Democrat apparatchiks attempt to make certain that the real America, memorialized in the Constitution is forgotten:

"At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general."
IRS targeted groups that criticized the government, IG report says

Of course, Obama is Claude Rains-shocked.

Did you get that?
The Obama IRS targeted, not just pro-Israel grooups, Tea Party Groups, 'patriot' named groups, but.....

".....groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution,..."


Imagine how the nation would respond to this if it were still composed of real Americans.

 

[oldfart]

Your writing seems to be improving; you are up to borderline coherent!

1.. It was the shock of the Great Depression that altered the relationship between the people and their government. Fear lead to the dramatic change in national attitude regarding the role of government in manipulating the free market, and private businesses, aimed at bailing families out of trouble. Americans grew more willing to pay the variety of taxes demanded in exchange for federal protection, and some perception of security from the "dark side" of capitalism. No longer was community and commerce viewed as protector of financial security.

Obviously the failure of economic policies in the 20's and 30's resulted in the political will to try something different to save capitalism from the Bolsheviks. This is news?

a. In the blink of an eye, 150 years of independence was abandoned for many, many Americans. Instead, they looked to the centralized federal government for employment guarantees, charity programs, and safety nets.

Translation: the American people confronted with an unparalleled economic catastrophe turned their backs on whiney rich people who told them through Andrew Mellon that their suffering was good for them and the country because they were the rot on society. The French 150 years previously had said the same thing for basically the same reason ("Let them eat cake!"), but they used a guillotine. In 30's America a few stockbrokers famously practiced self-defenestration, but I am unaware of any organized lynchings of bankers, no matter how good of an idea it was at the time.

From "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression," Studs Terkel.

I'm glad your reading is expanding. Now we can work on comprehension.

4. So, as a result, corrosive indolence warped a once healthy work ethic, and a new cultural ideal took hold in society. Once the needy got a taste of government handouts, the genie was out of the bottle. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness became the expectation of government obligation to provide happiness to everyone. Dependence begat a lower echelon of faithful voter. Politicians advanced the idea that the alleviation of poverty was the sole responsibility of politicians. What Tocqueville had predicted came to pass.

Of course the fact that labor productivity increased in the period you refer too and there is no evidence whatsoever of a breakdown in labor discipline akin to the experience of Russia, would seem to contradict your unfounded claim.

b. And Liberal/Progressive/Democrat apparatchiks attempt to make certain that the real America, memorialized in the Constitution is forgotten:

"At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general."
IRS targeted groups that criticized the government, IG report says

Did you get that?
The Obama IRS targeted, not just pro-Israel grooups, Tea Party Groups, 'patriot' named groups, but.....

".....groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution,..."

Is this what all the tripe was leading up to? Who exactly do you think is defending the IRS?

Imagine how the nation would respond to this if it were still composed of real Americans.

I think I already know what "real Americans" you are referring to. Disgusting.

If you want to discuss the IRS, I can do that. Just try to make a clear question or declarative statement instead of all this rubbish.

Jamie

 

[Politico]

Sounds like you should just end it all now.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Sounds like you should just end it all now.

Lead the way, sparky.....

 

[boedicca]

Sounds like you should just end it all now.

You'd like that. It's the Progressives' stock response to anyone who doesn't share their viewpoint.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Your writing seems to be improving; you are up to borderline coherent!

1.. It was the shock of the Great Depression that altered the relationship between the people and their government. Fear lead to the dramatic change in national attitude regarding the role of government in manipulating the free market, and private businesses, aimed at bailing families out of trouble. Americans grew more willing to pay the variety of taxes demanded in exchange for federal protection, and some perception of security from the "dark side" of capitalism. No longer was community and commerce viewed as protector of financial security.

Obviously the failure of economic policies in the 20's and 30's resulted in the political will to try something different to save capitalism from the Bolsheviks. This is news?

a. In the blink of an eye, 150 years of independence was abandoned for many, many Americans. Instead, they looked to the centralized federal government for employment guarantees, charity programs, and safety nets.

Translation: the American people confronted with an unparalleled economic catastrophe turned their backs on whiney rich people who told them through Andrew Mellon that their suffering was good for them and the country because they were the rot on society. The French 150 years previously had said the same thing for basically the same reason ("Let them eat cake!"), but they used a guillotine. In 30's America a few stockbrokers famously practiced self-defenestration, but I am unaware of any organized lynchings of bankers, no matter how good of an idea it was at the time.



I'm glad your reading is expanding. Now we can work on comprehension.



Of course the fact that labor productivity increased in the period you refer too and there is no evidence whatsoever of a breakdown in labor discipline akin to the experience of Russia, would seem to contradict your unfounded claim.

b. And Liberal/Progressive/Democrat apparatchiks attempt to make certain that the real America, memorialized in the Constitution is forgotten:

"At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general."
IRS targeted groups that criticized the government, IG report says

Did you get that?
The Obama IRS targeted, not just pro-Israel grooups, Tea Party Groups, 'patriot' named groups, but.....

".....groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution,..."

Is this what all the tripe was leading up to? Who exactly do you think is defending the IRS?

Imagine how the nation would respond to this if it were still composed of real Americans.

I think I already know what "real Americans" you are referring to. Disgusting.

If you want to discuss the IRS, I can do that. Just try to make a clear question or declarative statement instead of all this rubbish.

Jamie

1. Thrilling.

I love the image of the bullfight!

You know...that's where a big, stupid mammal ineffectively attacks a cape, because it cannot comprehend the real source of its irritation.


You won't get that, so let me explain.

To you, big stupid mammal, I serve as the object of your attack...i.e., the cape....because you are so inflamed that the OP eviscerates all you love!



2. The economic crisis could have been worse....and sure enough, Franklin the First made it worse.
In 1935, the Brookings Institution (left-leaning) delivered a 900-page report on the New Deal and the National Recovery Administration, concluding that “ on the whole it retarded recovery.”
The Real Deal - Society and Culture - AEI




3. "...the political will to try something different to save capitalism from the Bolsheviks. This is news?"

It seems you are one of the herd that is largely in error, but never in doubt.
Here....let me correct you once again:

John Maynard Keynes, in a letter published in the NYTimes, December 31, 1933, warned “ even wise and necessary Reform may, in some respects, impede and complicate Recovery. For it will upset the confidence of the business world and weaken their existing motives to action.” Even Keynes say the danger in treating the nation’s capitalists as an enemy, as “the unscrupulous money changers,” as FDR called them in his first Inaugural.




4. "Translation: the American people confronted with an unparalleled economic catastrophe..."
There is no translation necessary...the people did just as the OP states....they gave up their liberty for charity.


It was a major mistake. The second greatest one of the FDR error...er, era. Shredding the Constitution was the first greatest mistake.





5. "Of course the fact that labor productivity increased in the period you refer too and there is no evidence whatsoever of a breakdown in labor discipline akin to the experience of Russia, would seem to contradict your unfounded claim."

Well, as you bring up Russia, let's provide you with a tutorial. FDR used the same economic/political plan that Hitler used in Germany, and Mussolini, Italy.
All three dispensed with democracy, and freedom.

The National Socialists hailed FDR's ‘relief measures’ in ways you will recognize:
a. May 11, 1933, the Nazi newspaper Volkischer Beobachter, (People’s Observer): “Roosevelt’s Dictatorial Recovery Measures.”
b. And on January 17, 1934, “We, too, as German National Socialists are looking toward America…” and “Roosevelt’s adoption of National Socialist strains of thought in his economic and social policies” comparable to Hitler’s own dictatorial ‘Fuhrerprinzip.’
c. And “[Roosevelt], too demands that collective good be put before individual self-interest. Many passages in his book ‘Looking Forward’ could have been written by a National Socialist….one can assume that he feels considerable affinity with the National Socialist philosophy.”
d. The paper also refers to “…the fictional appearance of democracy.”

So....you are happy to ally with Nazis? "I think I already know what "real Americans" you are referring to. Disgusting"

e. Mussolini wrote a book review of Roosevelt’s “Looking Forward,” in which he said “…[as] Roosevelt here calls his readers to battle, is reminiscent of the ways and means by which Fascism awakened the Italian people.”
Popolo d’Italia, July 7, 1933.




Oh....did I just put you in your place....and prove you to be a fairly stupid oaf?
Good.



Right now you’re probably trying to brush something off your face…you didn’t realize it was the floor.




With homage to Thomas Hardy,

"Thou suffering thing,
Know that thy sorrow is my ecstasy,
That thy love's loss is my hate's profiting!"

 

[Politico]

Sounds like you should just end it all now.

You'd like that. It's the Progressives' stock response to anyone who doesn't share their viewpoint.

Did you just call me a progressive?

This is when they get all quiety.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Sounds like you should just end it all now.

You'd like that. It's the Progressives' stock response to anyone who doesn't share their viewpoint.

Did you just call me a progressive?

This is when they get all quiety.

Possibly 'nonentity' would be more accurate.

 

[editec]

Great Depression that altered the relationship between the people and their government.

Yes, I think that's a fair statement of fact.

Had it failed to make those changes, I think capitalism would have been abandoned in favor of some other economic system, one that the American people would have soon regretted.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Great Depression that altered the relationship between the people and their government.

Yes, I think that's a fair statement of fact.

Had it failed to make those changes, I think capitalism would have been abandoned in favor of some other economic system, one that the American people would have soon regretted.

How's this:

"Great Depression that altered the relationship between the people and their government....and not for the better."

 

[oldfart]

Oh....did I just put you in your place....and prove you to be a fairly stupid oaf?

Only in your fevered imagination. You truly don't know when you have lost an argument.
Collecting quotes does not make one literate.

 

[t_polkow]

When this nation began, government never promised to remove the consequences of an individual's life choices. Heck, it was understood that there was a difference between government, and insurance! And the government was constrained by article 1, section 8, of the Constitution, which actually listed what the central government could meddle....er, consider as its venue. And this constraint reined in debt.
But it all changed with the Depression.....




1.. It was the shock of the Great Depression that altered the relationship between the people and their government. Fear lead to the dramatic change in national attitude regarding the role of government in manipulating the free market, and private businesses, aimed at bailing families out of trouble. Americans grew more willing to pay the variety of taxes demanded in exchange for federal protection, and some perception of security from the "dark side" of capitalism. No longer was community and commerce viewed as protector of financial security.




a. In the blink of an eye, 150 years of independence was abandoned for many, many Americans. Instead, they looked to the centralized federal government for employment guarantees, charity programs, and safety nets.

2. "Oh, yeah, that was something! He broke the tradition. My father told me: 'Republicans are the ship. All else is the sea.' Frederick Douglass said that. Negroes didn't go for Roosevelt much in '32. But the Works Progress Administration came along and Roosevelt came to be a god. It was really great. You worked, you got a paycheck, and you had some dignity. Even when a man raked leaves, he got paid, he had some dignity. All the songs they used to have about the WPA:

I went to the poll line and I voted
And I knew I voted the right way
So I'm asking you, Mr. President
Don't take away this W and P A "
From "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression," Studs Terkel.


a. In 1932, more than two-thirds of African-Americans voted against Roosevelt. When the election of 1936 took place, 75% voted for him.

3. "There is the passage from Genesis 25:29-34, which accurately describes the cultural shifts that took place during the Great Depression.
Read this, and replace "Jacob" with "Uncle Sam," "Esau," with "the People," and "birthright," with "freedom."

29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!”
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright."
Star Parker, "Uncle Sam's Plantation."





4. So, as a result, corrosive indolence warped a once healthy work ethic, and a new cultural ideal took hold in society. Once the needy got a taste of government handouts, the genie was out of the bottle. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness became the expectation of government obligation to provide happiness to everyone. Dependence begat a lower echelon of faithful voter. Politicians advanced the idea that the alleviation of poverty was the sole responsibility of politicians. What Tocqueville had predicted came to pass.
Ibid.

a. ”As he predicted, instilled was a view of government as a power “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” that “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America."



b. And Liberal/Progressive/Democrat apparatchiks attempt to make certain that the real America, memorialized in the Constitution is forgotten:

"At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general."
IRS targeted groups that criticized the government, IG report says

Of course, Obama is Claude Rains-shocked.

Did you get that?
The Obama IRS targeted, not just pro-Israel grooups, Tea Party Groups, 'patriot' named groups, but.....

".....groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution,..."


Imagine how the nation would respond to this if it were still composed of real Americans.

You people weren't here back then during the depression, you people were eating dogs in rice paddy's and not anywhere near The United states

 

[Dugdale_Jukes]

Sounds like you should just end it all now.

You'd like that. It's the Progressives' stock response to anyone who doesn't share their viewpoint.

Did you just call me a progressive?

This is when they get all quiety.

Halfwits live in a dark Manichean (bipolar?) world of "us" and "them". Understanding that helped corporations use religious nuts and martial music to take over the nation.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Oh....did I just put you in your place....and prove you to be a fairly stupid oaf?

Only in your fevered imagination. You truly don't know when you have lost an argument.
Collecting quotes does not make one literate.

Not much of a response.....and zero rebuttal of the facts.

Do drop by when you need another spanking....oaf.

 

[PoliticalChic]

When this nation began, government never promised to remove the consequences of an individual's life choices. Heck, it was understood that there was a difference between government, and insurance! And the government was constrained by article 1, section 8, of the Constitution, which actually listed what the central government could meddle....er, consider as its venue. And this constraint reined in debt.
But it all changed with the Depression.....




1.. It was the shock of the Great Depression that altered the relationship between the people and their government. Fear lead to the dramatic change in national attitude regarding the role of government in manipulating the free market, and private businesses, aimed at bailing families out of trouble. Americans grew more willing to pay the variety of taxes demanded in exchange for federal protection, and some perception of security from the "dark side" of capitalism. No longer was community and commerce viewed as protector of financial security.




a. In the blink of an eye, 150 years of independence was abandoned for many, many Americans. Instead, they looked to the centralized federal government for employment guarantees, charity programs, and safety nets.

2. "Oh, yeah, that was something! He broke the tradition. My father told me: 'Republicans are the ship. All else is the sea.' Frederick Douglass said that. Negroes didn't go for Roosevelt much in '32. But the Works Progress Administration came along and Roosevelt came to be a god. It was really great. You worked, you got a paycheck, and you had some dignity. Even when a man raked leaves, he got paid, he had some dignity. All the songs they used to have about the WPA:

I went to the poll line and I voted
And I knew I voted the right way
So I'm asking you, Mr. President
Don't take away this W and P A "
From "Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression," Studs Terkel.


a. In 1932, more than two-thirds of African-Americans voted against Roosevelt. When the election of 1936 took place, 75% voted for him.

3. "There is the passage from Genesis 25:29-34, which accurately describes the cultural shifts that took place during the Great Depression.
Read this, and replace "Jacob" with "Uncle Sam," "Esau," with "the People," and "birthright," with "freedom."

29 Once when Jacob was cooking some stew, Esau came in from the open country, famished. 30 He said to Jacob, “Quick, let me have some of that red stew! I’m famished!”
31 Jacob replied, “First sell me your birthright.”
32 “Look, I am about to die,” Esau said. “What good is the birthright to me?”
33 But Jacob said, “Swear to me first.” So he swore an oath to him, selling his birthright to Jacob.
34 Then Jacob gave Esau some bread and some lentil stew. He ate and drank, and then got up and left.
So Esau despised his birthright."
Star Parker, "Uncle Sam's Plantation."





4. So, as a result, corrosive indolence warped a once healthy work ethic, and a new cultural ideal took hold in society. Once the needy got a taste of government handouts, the genie was out of the bottle. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness became the expectation of government obligation to provide happiness to everyone. Dependence begat a lower echelon of faithful voter. Politicians advanced the idea that the alleviation of poverty was the sole responsibility of politicians. What Tocqueville had predicted came to pass.
Ibid.

a. ”As he predicted, instilled was a view of government as a power “absolute, attentive to detail, regular, provident, and gentle,” that “works willingly for their happiness, but it wishes to be the only agent and the sole arbiter of that happiness. It provides for their security, foresees and supplies their needs, guides them in their principal affairs, directs their industry, regulates their testaments, divides their inheritances.” It is entirely proper to ask, as he asked, whether it can “relieve them entirely of the trouble of thinking and of the effort associated with living.”
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America."



b. And Liberal/Progressive/Democrat apparatchiks attempt to make certain that the real America, memorialized in the Constitution is forgotten:

"At various points over the past two years, Internal Revenue Service officials targeted nonprofit groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution, according to documents in an audit conducted by the agency’s inspector general."
IRS targeted groups that criticized the government, IG report says

Of course, Obama is Claude Rains-shocked.

Did you get that?
The Obama IRS targeted, not just pro-Israel grooups, Tea Party Groups, 'patriot' named groups, but.....

".....groups that criticized the government and sought to educate Americans about the U.S. Constitution,..."


Imagine how the nation would respond to this if it were still composed of real Americans.

You people weren't here back then during the depression, you people were eating dogs in rice paddy's and not anywhere near The United states

And, whether or not that has any truth to it, what does it have to do with the facts revealed in the OP?

Approximately......nothing.


I do so love when I'm the subject of a post such as yours, porky, both due to narcissism, and the fact that it proves your post is basically 'is not, is not.'

Sometimes I wonder what satisfaction you dolts get from that sort of non-post.
But....I see it as your only proof that you're still breathing.

 

[PoliticalChic]

You'd like that. It's the Progressives' stock response to anyone who doesn't share their viewpoint.

Did you just call me a progressive?

This is when they get all quiety.

Halfwits live in a dark Manichean (bipolar?) world of "us" and "them". Understanding that helped corporations use religious nuts and martial music to take over the nation.

Well....look who dropped by: the walking, talking sack of excrement.
This is the one who fabricated a charge that I reported him for something or other....and then scurried away with his tail between his legs.

 

[regent]

Somewhere along the line some Americans began to change their beliefs about the role of government and its responsibility to the common folk. They began to believe that governments were no longer created just for the aid and comfort of the wealthy, but governments could be used to provide some small comfort and aid to all the American people.
Perhaps it was the great depression that caused the change, or even the words in the Declaration of Independence, in any case some Americans did begin to change their beliefs about the role of government and its responsibility for the American people's right to life, liberty and their pursuit of happiness. Maybe that's a good thing?

 

[PoliticalChic]

Somewhere along the line some Americans began to change their beliefs about the role of government and its responsibility to the common folk. They began to believe that governments were no longer created just for the aid and comfort of the wealthy, but governments could be used to provide some small comfort and aid to all the American people.
Perhaps it was the great depression that caused the change, or even the words in the Declaration of Independence, in any case some Americans did begin to change their beliefs about the role of government and its responsibility for the American people's right to life, liberty and their pursuit of happiness. Maybe that's a good thing?

1. "Somewhere along the line some Americans began to change their beliefs about the role of government ...."
Glad you were able to glean that perspective.....it is the essence of the OP.



2. "...began to believe that governments were no longer created just for the aid and comfort of the wealthy,..."
Nay, nay, reggie....I'll be kind, and say you're is mistaken.

Did you want to point out where our memorializing documents state that the United States was "created just for the aid and comfort of the wealthy,..."?

To be honest, sure sounds like the usual Marxist hate-
America boilerplate.....


3. Now, this is a very important instruction that I'm about to provide, reggie....incorporate it into your thinking, so as to avoid embarrassing yourself again: King FDR had no authority to go beyond Article 1, section 8, in changing the relationship mentioned above.

a. Note, it is only the text of the written Constitution to which we the people of the United States have given our consent, never having consented to be governed in a formal way by the five hundred volumes of the U.S. Reports. We know from the D of I that a precept of our order is that it is the people who must consent to governance.

An amendment was required.



4. This may prove instructive, reggie:

"The ultimate source of authority in this Nation,
Marshall said, is not Congress, not the states, not for that matter the Supreme
Court of the United States. The people are the ultimate
source of authority; they have parceled out the authority that
originally resided entirely with them by adopting the original
Constitution and by later amending it. .... A mere change in public
opinion since the adoption of the Constitution, unaccompanied
by a constitutional amendment, should not change the
meaning of the Constitution."
WILLIAM H. REHNQUIST
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/jlpp/Vol29_No2_Rehnquist.pdf


See what you've learned?
Now...aren't you glad you dropped by, reggie?

 

[boedicca]

Somewhere along the line some Americans began to change their beliefs about the role of government and its responsibility to the common folk. They began to believe that governments were no longer created just for the aid and comfort of the wealthy, but governments could be used to provide some small comfort and aid to all the American people.
Perhaps it was the great depression that caused the change, or even the words in the Declaration of Independence, in any case some Americans did begin to change their beliefs about the role of government and its responsibility for the American people's right to life, liberty and their pursuit of happiness. Maybe that's a good thing?

Translation: somewhere along the line people who wanted to run the government for the benefit of themselves and their cronies (rent seekers), used the ignorance of some Americans to undo the protections of limited government in The Constitution.

The result has been to provide Very Small Aid And Comfort in order to create an underachieving dependent class voting bloc.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

America Ended With The Depression

Actually not.

Indeed, America found its true self as a consequence of the Great Depression, and has become a greater Nation since.

The Depression made clear the fact that the reactionary notion of ‘liberty to contract’ was an anachronistic fallacy, that the relationship between employer and employee was not one of co-equals, and that necessary and proper regulatory policy was both Constitutional and warranted. See: West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937).

Although painful and tragic for millions of Americans, the Great Depression ushered in a modern American economy and society, and with it greater opportunity for all Americans, economic prosperity, and equality.