President Trump’s critics have found something else to rend their garments over: His determination to end so-called “birthright citizenship.” Why, they thunder, it’s unconstitutional. And even if it could be changed, it can’t be by executive order. They’re wrong on both counts.
Ancient Hebrews in the Sinai desert had a legislative function which drove decision-making down to the lower levels within the tribes, directly to the people involved in the need or issue.
Plato wrote in The Republic, “And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.”[1]The Founding Fathers despised democracies. They desired democratic principles, but not a democracy. As Plato decrees above, a .10/11/2021 20:24:15PM EST.