@WilliamHogeland Thanks. That event, by majority-rule voting of 724 out of 1086, abolished the 1st Constitution while establishing the 2nd. It invokes the issue of sovereignty. Under the 1st Constitution, each of the 13 states was "sovereign" — possessing the "supreme authority of nation." 1/ @WilliamHogeland 2/ Thus the first "constitution of the Federal Government" was "federal" as Congress then stated, and now, according to the current definition. "Sovereignty" being a type of authority assigned to nations only, is supreme, presupposing "final" and "indivisible." So sovereignty...

@RichardAlbert Thanks Richard. There are some key features that could be examined: de facto two-party v. multiparty; bicameral v. unicameral; presidential v. parliamentary; direct democracy versus no direct democracy (with many variations); much private & corporate money v. little or none... 1/ @RichardAlbert 2/ ...in elections; etc. The above-mentioned features are summarized, in each case, by the contrast between New Zealand's constitutional design and America's constitutional design. If there are studies that correlate such features with the extent to which the popular will...

@veitchtweets @MichaelEMann 1.) Plus there are these correlations : @veitchtweets @MichaelEMann 2.)

@BretWeinstein Yes. Leadership in a constitutional crisis, and resulting incoherence, must come from people whose thinking is not locked in mental cages installed by centuries of propaganda. They have discovered the causes of the crisis, thus its solutions. My favorite candidates are these: 1/ @BretWeinstein 2/ First, in a constitutional crisis, the causes must be analyzed outside of the restrictive Overton Window that has obscured them —mostly deliberately — of, by & for the ruling oligarchy. In the case of the 1787 American Constitution, the causes are revealed by these scholars.

@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”)?

@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 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 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:

1 of 6 @mercan_resifi The same Washington Post whose reporter, Jamal Khashoggis, was murdered, has now exposed his murderer via CIA leaks—none other than the high official, Saudi Crown Prince bin Salman. washingtonpost.com/world/national…

@RJ_Reinhart Saw your third party survey report. news.gallup.com/poll/244094/ma… Thanks. Important subject. I’m curious about the methodology. 1 of 4 2 of 4 The question assumes a number of things, both directly and by omission. One is that a key reason for adding additional parties is if the existing two parties are inadequate—doing a poor job; that one more major party is enough (a “third” one); and by omission...