
Originally Posted by
Rhyfelwyr
Bah, that is just silly rhetoric! You Frenchmen/Yanks keep justifying your own oligarhic set up by appeals to this supposed 'social contract'. Funny thing is I don't ever remember signing that. In fact I find the idea that the people surrender their sovereignty through an invisible and undefined contract, which they are born into of necessity, to be quite tyrannical.
tbh, you need to abandon the inevitable tyranny of such 18th-century atheist thought, and return to the real enlightenment, the golden age of the 17-century when God-fearing Protestant political theorists layed the framework for our political freedoms. Try and tell Samuel Rutherford or Oliver Cromwell that the people surrender their sovereignty when they elect rulers over them. They'd have you hanging from the gallows before you could say the word "sovereignty"!
Aye, give me a king and let me keep my sovereingty any day, rather than surrender my sovereingty to some citizens when I elect him over me. Now wonder the French soon descended into totalitarianism when they had their revolutions. Despite the French ideals adopted by the USA's founding fathers, thankfully they had more solid Anglo-Saxon roots to keep things stable.
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