By Garrett Epps
The first goal of the us structure is to restrict Congress. there isn't any separation of church and country. the second one modification permits voters to threaten the govt. those are only the various myths approximately our structure peddled by way of the some distance Right—a poisonous coalition of Fox information conversing heads, radio hosts, indignant “patriot” teams, and power-hungry Tea get together politicians. Well-funded, loud, and unscrupulous, they are attempting to do to America’s founding record what they've got performed to international warming and evolution—wipe out the proof and replacement partisan fable. within the method, they search to cripple the perfect of We the folk to manipulate ourselves. In improper and unsafe, criminal student Garrett Epps offers the instruments had to struggle again opposed to the flood of constitutional nonsense. In phrases each citizen can comprehend, he tackles ten of the main wide-spread myths, offering a transparent take hold of of the structure and the govt it tested.
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113 Thus the American authorities had to choose between two evils, even if they regarded them as such only on the public relations level: (1) the option that a constitution, despite international law, would be imposed by them, and (2) that they would empower what they regarded as a weak and unrepresentative interim governmental organ, the IGC, to be in charge of the process. As usual, they chose both options, but the second was meant to be only the Iraqi veil for the first: American 28 The Externally Imposed Revolution and Its Destruction of the Iraqi State imposition.
132 It is quite another question whether such a system can be stabilized after an aggressive war, in a country with multiple lines of political cleavage. In Iraq, an empire’s democracy continually hovered between open imposition and outright failure of the whole governing process. In retrospect, it is tough to believe that anyone could have believed that such a democracy was possible under the given conditions. Misunderstood historical analogies certainly helped to spread the misconception. Excursus: Historical Comparisons and Their Warnings From the very beginning, those in charge of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq were willing to take seriously only the German and Japanese historical examples, which were, however, very poorly understood.
138 The problem of legitimation in Germany, where the state was completely destroyed, was handled through the restoration of democracy through largely indigenous processes; in Japan, where democratization was imposed, the solution relied on the preservation of the inherited state along with a species of traditional legitimacy. 139 (1) Germany and Japan were under the externally overthrown dictatorship for twelve and fifteen years, respectively; Iraq had been a dictatorship for forty years or more.