Jefferson misunderstood. It is not the method of governance that matters so much

Jefferson misunderstood.

It is not the method of governance that matters so much as rule of law that constrains the action of all – governing and governed alike.

He justified majoritarianism, possible only under homogenity, yet enfranchised all hoping that the church would create the homogenaity.

But the ‘priesthood’ that ‘kept the faith’ of western civilization in prehistory, and in the ancient, medieval, and modern periods, has been the judiciary. The church was just another house of government.

The question we must solve is quite simple: how to preserve the independence, scholarship, and exclusivity of the judiciary, as the final arbiter of disputes over property-in-toto.

The truth is that self interest alone is what drives these people. And self defense of their status is enough, so long as the militia stands, and the miitary indocrtinates.