Our Amnesty Mess

Bill Whittle nails it straight on.  Mexico – and Latin American in general – are dysfunctional.  They have been ever since the beginning of the Western Hemisphere.  We can expect to have immigration problems with our southern neighbors until we ourselves become as dysfunctional as they.  And considering the mass invasion from the Third-World, it could possibly happen within my lifetime.

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote about Mexico when he toured the United States in the 1800’s.  His observations are as true today as they were in the 19^th century.

The Constitution of the United States is akin to those fine creations of human endeavor which crown their inventors with renown and wealth but remain sterile in others hands.

Contemporary Mexico has illustrated this very thing.

The Mexicans, aiming for a federal system, took the federal constitution of their neighbors, the Anglo-Americans, as their model and copied it almost exactly. But although they transported the letter of the law, they failed to transfer at the same time the spirit which gave it life. As a result, they became tangled endlessly in the machinery of the double system of government. The sovereignty of the states and Union entered into a collision course as they exceeded the sphere of influence assigned to them by the constitution. Even today Mexico veers constantly from anarchy to military despotism and back again.

We are on the same collision course.  Most Americans cannot distinguish our double system of government.  Our federalist system is lost upon them.  It took many years for the Progressives to destroy our heritage.  We now have congressmen who state they aren’t constitutional scholars when confronted about their acts.  And these people are supposed to the best and brightest amongst us.

Alexis de Tocqueville marveled at how well the common man understood our dual system.  And they weren't constitutional scholars.

Once the general theory is well understood, the difficulties of applying it remain; these are countless because the sovereignty of the Union is so entwined in that of the states that it is impossible at first glance to see its limits. Everything in such a government is arbitrary and contrived and it can only suit a nation long accustomed to self-government and where political science reaches right down to the lowest rungs of society. Nothing has made me admire the good sense and practical intelligence of the Americans more than the way they evade the countless difficulties which derive from their federal constitution. I have scarcely ever encountered a single man of the common people in America who did not perceive with surprising ease the obligations entailed in the laws of Congress and those which owe their beginnings to the laws of his own state, nor who could not separate the matters belonging to the general prerogatives of the Union from those regulated by his local legislature and who could not point to where the competence of the federal courts begins and the limitation of the state tribunals ends.

 Mexico here we come!

H/T:  NC Renegade