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PLCY 700 DB 5 Reply 2 Hello Kenneth, I enjoyed reading your post. It had some good points and had some great information. The administrative processes and government oversight that Americans are subjected to must be increased. In that case, what steps would you recommend taking to ensure that everyone has the same standard of living? Is the concept of giving up certain individual rights in exchange for increased government oversight and rules really more important than ensuring the health and high quality of life of all people? Proverbs 19:17 encourages us to care for and show grace to the needy, and it says that the Lord will recompense us for it. Philippians 2:4 says, "not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others" (NIV, 2011). John 15:12 urges us to love each other as God has loved us. Because human beings are susceptible to corruption, and just as legislative bodies and courts of law can become corrupt (McClellan 2000), those who own businesses, etc. can also become corrupt; as a result, there are times when we require the government to have more administrative procedures and government control in order to achieve quality of life for all Americans. McClellan (2000) asserts that all excellent constitutions are subject to change throughout time due to the fact that the conditions of countries are always evolving. In my opinion, the Founding Fathers did not intend for the texts they wrote more than two centuries ago to serve as the illuminating beacon for all time. In several of his correspondences, Thomas Jefferson states, "god forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion...the tree of Liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" (Jefferson 1787). The right to demonstrate, as well as the right to assemble and so on, would not have been included in the Constitution and the other foundational

documents if the foundational Fathers had meant for them to be permanent. They placed a high importance on the possibility of staging a rebellion against a corrupt administration. As a result, I would not argue that the possibility of a revolution should be discounted. Jefferson believed that the election of 1800, which led to his administration, was a revolution in and of itself since it led to change and because it included the people saying what they wanted (Jefferson 1819). This is another theory about this topic. This concept, that the United States has gone through a number of different'regime' transitions, is also discussed in Lowi (2010). If the United States were a government that acknowledged such things, this would be an accurate statement. The Second Amendment was ratified so that the people might defend themselves against a corrupt government. The capacity to start a revolution whenever the people felt it was necessary was something that our Founding Fathers considered to be of the utmost importance. Reference Jefferson, Thomas. “Letter to William Smith.” Letter, 1787. Jefferson, Thomas. “Letter to Spencer Roane.” Letter, 1819. Lowi, T. J. (2010). The End of Liberalism: The Second Republic of the United States. W.W. Norton & Co. Mcclellan, James. (2000). Liberty, Order, and Justice: An Introduction to the Constitutional Principles of American Government. Liberty Fund. New International Bible. (2011). The NIV Bible. https://www.thenivbible.com/ (Original work published 1978)

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