The American experience that coalesced in the hours and days after the transfer of authority from the English to the Americans in 1787 might have been chaotic or rather innocuous when the people administering order and freedom under the Magna Carta were quite the same English people ancestrally with an innate commitment to serve their community and their King. The new Constitution also had its role to play. Fair and just order is what everybody wanted. Yet, it seems there were some who also wanted to enjoy and approximate the life of a King and take opportunity to do so where they could making decisions over and above the requirements and the legality of the Constitution. What fun would we have if we did not live life and transact business in a way that makes us feel like kings where you dot your T's and cross your I's while the constitution would have us cross our T 's and dot the I's? Constitutions are for the English, some say, and all of these rules that could enslave you one day and free you next week or next month. This tendency to skirt and avoid Constitutional legal obligation has continued to the present day and has filtered into the U.S. attitude towards UN compliance and obligatory commitments on the domestic forefront primarily while treaties are maintained and enforced by US personnel abroad. This is an unusual pattern, throwing the U.S. into turmoil when certain UN and Constitutional commitments are critically necessary for the functioning US economy.
The American experience that coalesced in the hours and days after the transfer of authority from the English to the Americans in 1787 might have been chaotic or rather innocuous when the people administering order and freedom under the Magna Carta were quite the same English people ancestrally with an innate commitment to serve their community and their King. The new Constitution also had its role to play. Fair and just order is what everybody wanted. Yet, it seems there were some who also wanted to enjoy and approximate the life of a King and take opportunity to do so where they could making decisions over and above the requirements and the legality of the Constitution. What fun would we have if we did not live life and transact business in a way that makes us feel like kings where you dot your T's and cross your I's while the constitution would have us cross our T 's and dot the I's? Constitutions are for the English, some say, and all of these rules that could enslave you one day and free you next week or next month. This tendency to skirt and avoid Constitutional legal obligation has continued to the present day and has filtered into the U.S. attitude towards UN compliance and obligatory commitments on the domestic forefront primarily while treaties are maintained and enforced by US personnel abroad. This is an unusual pattern, throwing the U.S. into turmoil when certain UN and Constitutional commitments are critically necessary for the functioning US economy.
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