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@MonicaHesse Saw this: washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl… It appears to be true that about one out of a hundred men are psychopaths, but only one out of 1500 women. Most geniuses appear to be men. That’s two extremes, perhaps it’s based on genetics. If so... 1/
2/ ...then what can be done to protect society from the many men and the fewer women who are psychopaths? Options: 1. Universal mental health insurance? 2. Screening for special treatment? 3.) Banning the assault and torture of children in schools (called “corporal punishment”)?
3/ 4. Banning assault and torture of children in homes? 5. Prohibiting the ownership of semiautomatic rifles like New Zealand did? 6. Making training, recurrent training and home safety inspections for any gun owner? 7. Strengthening backgroundchecks for all gun sales?
4/ 8. Requiring registration of all guns, and all people who own one? Yes? No?
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@WilliamHogeland @dhlazare Persuading the public to exercise the collective right to be the Sovereign, and to do as Jefferson described in his Declaration draft to “alter” or “abolish” our government and to “institute new government” when that government fails, requires a look at the past. 1/
@WilliamHogeland @dhlazare 2/ That’s because what is legal is based on the past via the stare decisis — precedent. AND Americans are a largely indoctrinated people who look to an imagined past for guidance. The actual past then is relevant for what to do in the present to democratize the nation.
@WilliamHogeland @dhlazare 3/ Normally, in *modern* democratic nations, changing the constitutional design falls to political parties. Under a constitutional design, such as ours, that effectively deprived us of party choice, that is not a practical option. So it’s missing is creating the organizational...
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@WilliamHogeland 1/ The part that still is able “to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority” are the institutions/processes created in Articles 1-6. The Senate, Presidency/Executive, The Supreme Court, the States, are there to get abolishment and ratification (06-21-1788) & to...
@WilliamHogeland 2/ ...block the popular will as it might be expressed by the House of the People as a whole, directly. The amendments you refer to expand those incorporated into the set of individuals with individual rights, but don’t alter the divide-and-rule, confuse-and-rule design features.
@WilliamHogeland 3/ Nor do they, nor other amendments of the post-1791 15, nor the subsequent SCOTUS rulings, recover & amplify the block, stop and remove functions of direct democracy in the Preamble, the Declaration, and the VA Declaration of Rights that affirm the entire democratic tradition.
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@WilliamHogeland Thanks for your lengthy, and still concise, and extremely well-informed analysis of James Wilson’s views over his life as a key founding leader. The view that I stated, consistent with Akhil Amar’s views in “For the People” and his paper shown below, is not who he was, but... 1/
@WilliamHogeland 2/ ...rather his narrow, specific advocacy for direct democracy in constitutional abolishing and replacing (in the period from 1787 to 1790 I meant) under the second Constitution that he coauthored as a founding leader. I said:
@WilliamHogeland 3/ That is, that he argued for democracy. I didn’t express the view that you contradicted, namely that he was a “champion of democracy” as a person. I referenced his specific advocacy for majority rule popular sovereignty as a prime directive, as a sovereign, collective right.
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One of @carlbernstein's sources for the story was @LannyDavis.

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Very interesting piece. As all involved agree, Wheeler took an extreme action, extreme in descriptive not perjorative sense. We don’t know enough about the details to fully judge Wheelers actions. But I think it is important to recognize that ... washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/styl…
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