Saturday, May 01, 2010

Victims Of Communism Day

Ilya Somin has declared that May 1st is Victims of Communism Day. Over on my blog, I noted how our Constitution was originally designed to protect against communism by quoting from Federalist 10:

The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States. A religious sect may degenerate into a political faction in a part of the Confederacy; but the variety of sects dispersed over the entire face of it must secure the national councils against any danger from that source. A rage for paper money, for an abolition of debts, for an equal division of property, or for any other improper or wicked project, will be less apt to pervade the whole body of the Union than a particular member of it; in the same proportion as such a malady is more likely to taint a particular county or district, than an entire State.


The Senate was originally designed to protect against these evils by keeping such power out of the hands of a centralized authority. We'll be seeing calls for more communism here unless the 17th Amendment is repealed.

Hat tip: Let a Thousand Nations Bloom

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