Yes, Arnold, you can bet that all framers of past liberal constitutions never anticipated the world we live today. If you were familiar with the history of liberal constitutions in Spain, Argentina, and Chile, you would fear greatly how political competition for grabbing and holding power is being played today. Anyway, I think today's U.…
Yes, Arnold, you can bet that all framers of past liberal constitutions never anticipated the world we live today. If you were familiar with the history of liberal constitutions in Spain, Argentina, and Chile, you would fear greatly how political competition for grabbing and holding power is being played today. Anyway, I think today's U.S. political competition is much worst than in each of those three countries for the simple reason that you have never faced the high degree of corruption of all liberal values and institutions I see in your country today. Too many have remained silent for too long in your country -- the only one with a good, long record of liberal values and institutions (yes, the poor record of those values and institutions in the last 200 years is a common excuse some intellectuals use to explain what is going on in Spain, Argentina, and Chile).
Regarding your proposal to reform just the bureaucracy, let me remember you that to reform radically the bureaucracy requires first a substantial reform of the Constitution -- but, as I used to discuss with Gordon Tullock in early 1980, reforming the Constitution at best is a necessary condition never a sufficient one.
Yes, Arnold, you can bet that all framers of past liberal constitutions never anticipated the world we live today. If you were familiar with the history of liberal constitutions in Spain, Argentina, and Chile, you would fear greatly how political competition for grabbing and holding power is being played today. Anyway, I think today's U.S. political competition is much worst than in each of those three countries for the simple reason that you have never faced the high degree of corruption of all liberal values and institutions I see in your country today. Too many have remained silent for too long in your country -- the only one with a good, long record of liberal values and institutions (yes, the poor record of those values and institutions in the last 200 years is a common excuse some intellectuals use to explain what is going on in Spain, Argentina, and Chile).
Regarding your proposal to reform just the bureaucracy, let me remember you that to reform radically the bureaucracy requires first a substantial reform of the Constitution -- but, as I used to discuss with Gordon Tullock in early 1980, reforming the Constitution at best is a necessary condition never a sufficient one.