Actually, you removed the words of our Constitution which I posted and then went on to ask if you support those words. And, you still have not answered the question.
I happen to support our Constitution and the documented intentions and beliefs under which it was adopted.
JWK
"On every question of construction [of the Constitution], carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed."--Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, June 12, 1823, The Complete Jefferson, p. 322.
Of course the exception to Mr Jefferson's words are the Ammendments since then, including our move from his Plutocracy to our Democracy.
Exception? Jefferson's words express the most fundamental rule of constitutional construction. And with regard to your comment about "our Democracy", the fact is, we have a constitutionally limited "Republican Form of Government" guaranteed under Article 4, Section 4 of our Constitution.
And just what did our Founding Fathers think of democracy? Madison, in Federalist No. 10 says in reference to democracy they
have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
And during the Convention which framed our federal Constitution, Elbridge Gerry and Roger Sherman, delegates from Massachusetts and Connecticut, urged the Convention to create a system which would eliminate
"the evils we experience," saying that those
"evils . . .flow from the excess of democracy..."
And, then there was John Adams, a principle force in the American Revolutionary period who also pointed out
"democracy will envy all, contend with all, endeavor to pull down all; and when by chance it happens to get the upper hand for a short time, it will be revengeful, bloody, and cruel..."
And Samuel Adams, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and favoring the new Constitution as opposed to democracy declared:
" Democracy never lasts long . . . "It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself.". . . "There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide."
And during the Constitutional Convention, Hamilton stated:
"We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy."
And then there was Benjamin Franklin, who informed a crowd when exiting the Convention as to what system of government they created, he responded by saying
"A republic, if you can keep it."
Democracy, or majority rule vote, as the Founding Fathers well knew, whether that majority rule is practiced by the people or by elected representatives, if not restrained by specific limitations and particular guarantees in which the unalienable rights of mankind are put beyond the reach of political majorities, have proven throughout history to eventually result in nothing less than an unbridled mob rule system susceptible to the wants and passions of a political majority imposing its will upon those who may be outvoted, and would result in the subjugation of unalienable rights, and especially rights associated with property ownership and liberty [witness the recent Kelo case]. And so, our Founding Fathers gave us a constitutionally limited Republican Form of Government, guaranteed by Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States.
JWK
The fundamental principle of constitutional construction is that effect must be given to the intent of the framers of the organic law and of the people adopting it. This is the polestar in the construction of constitutions, all other principles of construction are only rules or guides to aid in the determination of the intention of the constitutions framers.--- numerous citations omitted__ Vol.16 American Jurisprudence, 2d Constitutional law (1992 edition), pages 418-19 - - - Par. 92. Intent of framers and adopters as controlling.
