Almost all of your comments are based on common sense, which I listened to with great interest and a slight bit of criticism.
Obviously, common sense is not the basis of government because common sense comes from a common experience of common rights, powers, and protections. In a republic, the first thing they do is grant themselves special powers, privileges, and immunties while creating, interpreting, and implementing laws. We have no vote on it. Your neighbors have no vote on them. Your father had no vote on them.
I became a Republican in 1978 because they wanted less of this republic's power, not more. I became a Republican in 1978 because Democrats wanted less democracy, which requires the consent of the governed to be just, according to the Declaration of Independence.
The Democrats are DINOs. Democrats-In-Name-Only. The problem with the republic is that it fails to represent anyone but itself and fails to hold itself accountable. If they held themselves accountable for how they misrepresented Measure 114, the Attorney General and State Secretary would be indicted. If the measure had been required to be plainly worded, it could not have been put on the ballot. It almost failed because many read the law itself rather than just what the Secretary claimed it said.,
Ben Franklin, whom you quote, Patrick Henry, and others had reservations about a constitution intended to stop another Shay's rebellion.
