I have to introduce a concept. Let's start with the idea of a majority.

All Americans understand what a majority it because there is how government representatives are elected, by a majority of the voters. That majority is not about limiting voters by race or gender, UNLESS, all the amendments to the USA Constitution are erased.

Unconscionable.

Anti-American.

Unconstitutional.

All, those words describe the USA's people and how they relate to their government. The USA Constitution protects Americans from destroying freedom and democracy and liberty. That is the "state of play." But, what if other Americans think that "originalists" are better at governance than those that see every person in the USA as having rights and responsibilities.

That thinking exists. See, some Americans might secretly think that the Amendments are nothing more than politics and the original document is the correct way of thinking about the US Constitution.

The Founding Fathers as they are called were mostly wealthy men that voted because they were landowners. Thirteen colonies and an economy based in farming primarily would include a lot of people as landowners and farmers. No one was renting out a skyscraper apartment building in a big city, now were they? The Found Fathers as they are called would not even conceive of a skyscraper, let alone understand how the population of this country was growing.

So, what if a political party decided they wanted to reach back in time and allow only wealthy landowners a vote and everyone else were simply vassals.

A vassal is a person regarded as having a mutual obligation to a lord or monarch, in the context of the feudal system in medieval Europe. The obligations often included military support by knights in exchange for certain privileges, usually including land held as a tenant or fief.

Straight out of the Middle Ages. The USA would be a series of fiefdoms.

There would be a real problem with that, called sovereignty. Who are the landowners exactly? Russians? There is an oligarch in Kentucky. China bought out Smithfields Farms (click here). Nothing like a Farm Bill that gives aid to foreign governments.

March 27, 2019
By Renee Wild

American soil.

Those are two words (click here) that are commonly used to stir up patriotic feelings. They are also words that can't be taken for granted, because today nearly 30 million acres of U.S. farmland are held by foreign investors. That number has doubled in the past two decades, which is raising alarm bells in farming communities.

When the stock market tanked during the past recession, foreign investors began buying up big swaths of U.S. farmland. And because there are no federal restrictions on the amount of land that can be foreign owned, it's been left up to individual states to decide on any limitations.

It's likely that even more American land will end up in foreign hands, especially in states with no restrictions on ownership. With the median age of U.S. farmers at 55, many face retirement with no prospect of family members willing to take over. The National Young Farmers Coalition anticipates that two-thirds of the nation's farmland will change hands in the next few decades.

"Texas is kind of a free-for-all, so they don't have a limit on how much land can be owned," say's Ohio Farm Bureau's Ty Higgins. "You look at Iowa and they restrict it — no land in Iowa is owned by a foreign entity."...