Political Quotes

“on September 17, 1787, this great experiment was finalized to try to form what they considered a more perfect Union, and the birth of our Constitution happened. This was a radical experiment in self-government, and most of the rest of the world at the time stared at those whom we now call our Founding Fathers and thought, that will never work. It wasn't a parliamentary system. It wasn't a monarchy. It was a representative republic, and it was pulling something out of the thoughts and the hearts of people to say: This is inherently what we think would work. It began with the simple concept of checks and balances--that one person would check another person who would check another person. They were able to put that into a governmental structure that had three coequal branches--an executive, a legislative, and judicial branch--so that we don't have one over the other. The three stand on equal footing. Each of them watches the other. It was a unique system of putting a legislative branch together that had one body made up of the House of Representatives that would be large, boisterous, and up for election every two years. The most painful parts of government--that are required of government--are put into the hands of the people who are closest to the people. Those are the power of impeachment, the power of the purse, and the power of things that need to be done by government but can be done only by people who are closest to the government.…”