Love that insight about Faustian bargain w tech and Amazon..how true, we are victims of our own success...I've been looking more at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and there I've found some evidence that the framers wanted to "reign in the revolution" from people who farmed the land. These farmers had won debt forgiveness from the…
Love that insight about Faustian bargain w tech and Amazon..how true, we are victims of our own success...I've been looking more at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and there I've found some evidence that the framers wanted to "reign in the revolution" from people who farmed the land. These farmers had won debt forgiveness from the states, who printed paper money, worsening the national war debt. Most telling: there was so much anger in the states about how the proposed constitution made the new federal government too powerful that historians believe the constitution would not have been ratified unless a Bill of Rights had been added, protecting individual and states rights. I keep musing about what they would think now, with Red States going their own way.
Love your comments. I’m just diving into American History and must believe our founding ancestors had great reasons for believing the Federal Government might turn into the real threat to the rights of we the people. They well understood their own and others autocratic impulses.
Love that insight about Faustian bargain w tech and Amazon..how true, we are victims of our own success...I've been looking more at the Constitutional Convention in 1787, and there I've found some evidence that the framers wanted to "reign in the revolution" from people who farmed the land. These farmers had won debt forgiveness from the states, who printed paper money, worsening the national war debt. Most telling: there was so much anger in the states about how the proposed constitution made the new federal government too powerful that historians believe the constitution would not have been ratified unless a Bill of Rights had been added, protecting individual and states rights. I keep musing about what they would think now, with Red States going their own way.
Love your comments. I’m just diving into American History and must believe our founding ancestors had great reasons for believing the Federal Government might turn into the real threat to the rights of we the people. They well understood their own and others autocratic impulses.