Comments for The Day The Earth Stood Still: From Science Fiction To Reality at http://www.ldsfreemen.com , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 comments http://www.ldsfreemen.com Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:19:45 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/steven-montgomery/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-from-science-fiction-to-reality.html#comment-120 ed42 first quoted a line from the article (italics)and then remarked (bold): [i]"The U.S. Constitution was deliberately designed to avoid this concentration of power."[/i] [b]Hmmm, the articles of confederation had a much smaller concentration of power in the 'federal' government...[/b] To which I reply: True. But the Constitution seeks to avoid the extremes of too much concentrated power versus very little to any power. Both extremes are dangerous to liberty. Our constitutional republic seeks to maneuver the ship of state between the shoals of Scylla (anarchy) on one hand and the rock walls of Charybdis (tyranny) on the other. The golden mean. Clearly the founders rejected both the extremes of tyranny, when they overthrew the British, and the extremes of anarchy, when they threw away the Articles of Confederation in favor of the Constitution. Didn't they? - Steven Montgomery Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:52:01 +0100 http://www.ldsfreemen.com/steven-montgomery/the-day-the-earth-stood-still-from-science-fiction-to-reality.html#comment-119 "The U.S. Constitution was deliberately designed to avoid this concentration of power." Hmmm, the articles of confederation had a much smaller concentration of power in the 'federal' government... - ed42 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:51:37 +0100