Sheldon Whitehouse: 'There is a plan, and this is just part of it.'

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9. The whole system of checks and balances conspires against itself.

Democracy wasn't so popular with the founders that they'd even write it into the constitution. I've been nursing the suspicion, of late, that they pretty much had no use whatsoever for the will of the people. So long as they bore the burden of providing their own weapons to serve in their makeshift army. That item was written in rather specifically. Oh my. Even consider the "rightness" of renaming the enterprise, "The United Syndicate of America". Cut to Lincoln with tear sliding slowly into his furrowed face.