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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by sixothree on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @04:58PM (#26717306)
This country was founded on checks and balances. We seem to have lost that entirely.
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by dragonwriter on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @05:09PM (#26717412)
> This country was founded on checks and balances.

No, it wasn’t. It was founded on an impotent central government. It later adopted checks and balances when it decided it needed a much more powerful central government and what it was founded on was unsuitable.

But just because US Gov 2.x lasted longer than 1.x doesn’t mean everything in the 2.0. release was perfect; its certainly needed many minor and bugfix releases, and there’s no reason to think that it might not at some point need another ground-up rewrite.

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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by throwaway0a5e on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @07:39PM (#26718729)
Prior to 1900 or so (even more so prior to 1860) the "potent" central government was still very impotent by modern standards.
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by giantg2 on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:11PM (#26718966)
What are you counting as 1.x, Pre-Constitution?
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by jimz on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @09:12PM (#26719424)
Articles of Confederation. It was in force for 6 years before the founders dumped it and drafted the Constitution. The main problems were the inability for congress to levy taxes, regulate trade international and interstate, and congress wound up having to beg the states for money.
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by Jayschwa on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @08:53PM (#26719302)
Most likely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_Confederation
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Re:I refused to become an FBI informant, the government put ... by fallingknife on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @06:32PM (#26718210)
This isn't really an example of that, though. This is just a clear cut 6th (and probably more) amendment violation by the government.
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