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30 sats \ 3 replies \ @freetx 21 Feb \ on: Constitutional Dictatorship? Politics_And_Law
Almost every country founded after 1800 (ie. most countries in western hemisphere), used the US Constitution as a template. Some are remarkably similar (Mexico's constitution is almost of cut and paste of the original US Articles of Confederation)
Look at the state of most of those countries....latin america as a whole is very lacking in freedom metrics.
Point being, is Constitution's are only words on a paper. The only thing that matters is "a people", this is one of the reasons why the powers that be wanted mass migration so badly, because they know with enough demographic change they can produce the political change they desire.
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31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 21 Feb
Point being, is Constitution's are only words on a paper. The only thing that matters is "a people", this is one of the reasons why the powers that be wanted mass migration so badly, because they know with enough demographic change they can produce the political change they desire.
Yes, there is more to culture and nationhood than just the piece of paper with the written rules of governance upon it. The denial of property rights is the main cause of all the problems many of the more southern countries have. If you have no property rights in yourself and your labor, you cannot do much of anything with certainty. This lack of property rights is one reason why, Brazil, for instance, has favelas, people cannot build for permanence because they lack rights to the land they are using. In an instance where there are property rights, in Japan, people do not always own the land that they build on, but they have property rights through a very long term contract to lease the land, therefore, they build homes there. It is the culture of widespread property ownership that allows any progress in economic and political affairs.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 21 Feb
not just any paper but parchment paper or was it hemp?
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rothbardian_fanatic OP 21 Feb
Knowing the founders, it was probably hemp. They enjoyed raising hemp for its various properties. :)
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