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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, June 04 2013 @ 07:23 PM EDT |
Exactly, both the Constitution and the Declaration are great works of moral
thought derived independently from the need for God or the Bible to tell us it
was morally right.
So to think that 240 years ago this group of independent farmers living in the
far off colonies could write down these ideas and design the workings of a
country based upon those ideas is absolutely amazing. (No more amazing
than the Bible 2000 to 2800 years ago, just as wonderful.)
Our country now 240 years later is still living with these ideals and this
constitution. They did a great job the founding "fathers".
So we have a few unanticipated failures, and one of them is how the monied
class has a disproportionate voice in legislation through campaign gifts. This
allows successful businessmen (and women) to rig the legislation in their
favor so as to earn unfairly using the law even more money. This is what I
argued has created the current IP law in the United States -- way
overbalanced towards the interests that can afford to patent every idea no
matter how inconsequential and use it against the newer entrants.
I believe, as I am sure many Groklawians, that this should be redressed.
And I would argue that the moral philosophers who created this country
would agree with me based upon first principles. It was these same first
principles that protested the use of the British laws from parliament to
overtax the colonies. It was unfair because in that case there was no fair way
to prevent the oppressive taxation regime from being passed. In the same
way it is unfair in that other than those who can afford to buy a personal
audience with multiple congressmen, there is no way to overturn this patent
taxation.
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