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smtucker | 11 years ago

It does have one. But the situation has to be very bad for enough people to be willing invoke it.

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ChristianBundy|11 years ago

Am I missing something, or are you talking about a violent revolution?

smtddr|11 years ago

I don't know about a "violent revolution", but I'm very skeptical of fixing a broken system while working within the rules of said system.

MCRed|11 years ago

Supreme Court, Legislative and ultimately voting are all mechanisms that should moderate corruption.

The problem is all of these mechanisms are controlled by the government, which is the source of the corruption. Even voting-- I do believe that the voting machines are corrupted about 50/50- half for democrats and half for republicans. But that only serves to reinforce our one-party-with-two-wings system and exclude greens and libertarians.

I long for the day when all of the nationally televised presidential debates include the Libertarian and Green candidates. (At the 2004 & 2008 elections they put their differences aside and travelled to the debates and tried to get in, and got arrested attempting to do so as a protest of being excluded. And then had a libertarian-green presidential debate. Loved it.)

TheSpiceIsLife|11 years ago

Surely there's a spectrum of active participation.

reubenmorais|11 years ago

I don't know if this is what smtucker meant, but isn't the Supreme Court supposed to fill this role?