Fandt det her lille guldkorn af en blogkommentar, i et indlæg pÃ¥ Mises Institutes blog om “umuligheden ved en begrænset statsmagt”.
Kommentaren går sådan her:
Well, since mises.org is having database issues or some such, I can’t read the article in full. I can however comment on:
“The definition of private property was clear and seemingly immutable”
Wrong, wrong, and dead wrong. The definition of private property changed drastically as you crossed the Mason-Dixon line. The Constitution may have been flawed from the get-go in other ways, but trying to add patches to the Constitution to eradicate slavery, and the leftover problems from slavery, and the leftover problems from original solutions of removing slavery, all in the spirit of good intentions, has left a wide stream of bad precedent. Direct such effects included Plessy v. Fergussen, Brown v. Board of Education, the 14th amendment entire, encroachments on states rights following the Civil War, Jim Crow, race riots, affirmative action, the KKK… Each of these things handed our masters weapons of mass illiberalism. The indirect effects, including the 17th amendment, increased police powers, judicial activism, and others, are countless.
True, the Constitution held seeds of its own destruction, but I think the ones that caused failure the quickest are the simplest to find. Let it be a signal fire to future generations of revolutionaries: DO NOT COMPROMISE ON NATURAL RIGHTS.
