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Trump’s Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal
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Because fraud is an official act of a president... even fraud commited before he announced he was running because, our founding fathers didn't anticipate the possibility of all 3 branches of government being corrupt at the same time.
They did. Which is why the 2nd Amendment is what it is.
I would say the second amendment got kinda screwed in how it was... Like the primary point was to not have a standing army. Almost all the founding fathers specifically feared the idea of a standing army, as one of the greatest threats to liberty.
“Always remember that an armed and trained militia is the firmest bulwark of republics—that without standing armies their liberty can never be in danger, nor with large ones safe.” - James Madison
“Standing armies are dangerous to liberty.” - Alexander Hamilton
“I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights, providing clearly, and without the aid of sophism, for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction of monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury, in all matters of fact triable by the law of the land, and not by the laws of nations.” - Thomas Jefferson
So yeah second amendment is great and all... though I would say, it's primary value was meant to be that we could rise up against authoritarians... because the people are in the same equipment league as the army... instead now somehow we're watching the nation argue over if the millitary code saying not to follow illegal orders is actually a real rule, while ice thugs are literally grabbing people off the street. At this point I'm honestly not seeing the second ammendment working without actually having a second civil war.
They did. Their rebellion against an absolutist government shows that.
They just didn't have facebook and reddit to defuse the public outrage into imaginary points.
It's true but I mean the key point is, they had quite a few failsafes set up for this... why we have 3 branches of government all made to slam the breaks on eachother etc... it's why many of the founding fathers didn't even want parties to exist. Hell they didn't even want a standing military, they were pretty adamanant of staying out of other nations affairs... even the nations that we owed favors to.