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Originally Posted by Boreas
The president and the legislators are nominally the representatives of the people, our servants by constitutional mandate. We are not theirs. You can argue the functional reality of this 'til the cows come home but popular sovereignty is at the root of our system of government.
And when a corporation has the right to sue a government because laws passed by that government interfere with the corporation's ability to make money in that country, that is a transfer of sovereignty from a nation and its people to that corporation. The compelling interests of a state and its people will then become subservient to the corporate bottom line.
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Your HS civics lesson is indeed one of the key pillars supporting our nation's mythology.
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Last edited by nailer; 05-04-2015 at 01:47 PM.
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