Choosing Leadership

Affirming the Constitution

What is the best way of choosing leadership? Plato thought that it's not the form of government but the integrity of the leadership that matters most. The best form of government won't work with selfish leaders.

A down to earth reason why the separation of church and state is preferred is because the Church, at least ideally, has a better way of choosing leadership than a secular state. And the Church has it over secular universities because it values traditional morality---recent perversions within the Church to the contrary.

The United States Constitution took the negative and cynical (and wise) view that the best leadership will not always be chosen, human nature being what it is, therefore, the Constitution simply limits the power of leaders, and separates powers as much as possible, and gives leadership to many states and regions. People naturally seek independence and prefer their own regions and their own people. And the Constitution keeps government small, with representatives of the people, since the mass of people have unequal talents in leadership which pure democracy would exploit.

Cynical, negative but realistic. It is idealism and romanticism and criminal activity that set up forms of government based on false hopes and inaccurate views of human nature. We need to get back to the principles of the Constitution.