Americans everywhere;
Thank you for your
time and attention.
First,
please let me be very clear, what I have written
here for your consideration is not about the
Republican Party, Democrat Party, Independent
Party, Libertarian Party, Tea Party or any other
Party. It is about an idea conceived over two
centuries ago, a country, a people, a document.
Two hundred
and twenty nine years ago (1787) a group of men
whom we now refer to as the "founding fathers,"
following a long and bloody battle for their
independence from a dictatorial
Monarchy, assembled themselves together in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and did their best to
establish a country governed in a God-fearing way
by representatives who were selected by the people
who were to be governed.
No where in
the history of all mankind were there any examples
or even political theory in existence that offered
them any hope that a republican form of
government, based on the new concept of consent of
the governed, could succeed on a wilderness
continent which was much larger than any European
state.
These men met
there on the world stage to carry out the first of
three acts in this epic political drama, the
drafting of the United States Constitution. The
final document was the culmination of a fierce
political struggle that had been waged for four
sweltering summer months in secret behind
guarded closed doors. The document sought to
reconcile individual personal liberty with the
perceived need for a central government with
powers to forge a political and economic common
market among thirteen separate and sovereign
states.
The next two
acts to be performed on this world stage were the
ratification of the document and the translation
from words on parchment paper to institutional
form and structure. In 1789 the first congress
approved and sent to the states for ratification,
a bill of rights of individual liberty, and
additional rights reserved to the states. Those
ten amendments, ratified on December 15,
1791, became an extremely vital part of the
Constitution and crucial to greatly limiting the
power of the Federal Government over both that of
the people and separate states. The Republic of
the United States of America, an experiment in
people governing themselves was now a reality for
the first time in the history of man. Newcomers
from other countries, willing to be governed by
it's Constitution and Bill of Rights, and
themselves, came in droves through the established
legal immigration process, to this new land of
government by the governed.
I here bring
to your attention that the United States of
America was formed as a Republic and not a
Democracy. All our lives you and I have been
conditioned to believe we are a Democracy in
America. How long has it been since you have heard
of America referred to as a Republic? You see,
there was purpose behind the words in the Pledge
of Allegiance to our flag referring to our country
as, "the Republic for which it stands."
Ladies and gentlemen rest assured there is a
very good reason the term "democracy" does not
exist either in our Constitution or the
Declaration of our Independence. A true Democracy
is mob rule. Any government set up as a Democracy
is the same government we would have if we were
set up as a Socialist, Communist, or Marxist
government. In these forms the government is a mob
ruling over the people with absolutely no rights
for individuals or minorities.
It has been
written, "The Founders were extremely
knowledgeable about the issue of democracy and
feared democracy as much as a monarchy. They
understood that the only entity that can take away
the people's freedom is their own government,
either by being too weak to protect them from
external threats or by becoming too powerful and
taking over every aspect of life." Democracy
and/or Socialism is mob rule by government. The
founders of America were all too familiar with
democracies/socialism, and deliberately did
everything in their power to prevent a Democracy.
It has been written, "In a Republic, the
sovereignty resides with the people themselves. In
a Republic, one may act on his own or through his
representatives when he chooses to solve a
problem." The people have no obligation to the
government; the government is a servant of the
people, and obliged to them, for they are its
owner. Not only have many politicians, Republican
and Democrat, lost sight of this fact, but a great
many of the American people.
A
Constitutional Republic has a Constitution that
limits the powers of the government. The goal of
our founding fathers in forming a Constitutional
Republic was to avoid the disastrous extremes of
either tyranny (absolute ruler) or "mobocracy."
(government mob). I borrowed the following from
Darrell Huckaby:
"I am tired of hearing about our democracy and the popular vote. We are not a democracy, and a whole lot of people should be really glad about that, too, because in a democracy, mob rule applies. The majority is the boss of everybody, and if we had been a democracy in 1865 slavery would have never been abolished. If we had been a democracy in 1920, the women would have never gotten the vote. If we had been a democracy in 1964 and 1965, those historic pieces of civil rights legislation would never have been approved. In fact, if we had been a democracy in 1776, the Declaration of Independence would never have been adopted because the majority of the colonists were afraid to pursue independence, just like a majority of Americans opposed women’s suffrage and abolition and sweeping civil rights reform.
For the record, Abraham Lincoln did not get a majority of the popular vote in 1860, and Bill Clinton did not get a majority of the popular vote in 1992 or 1996.
“Oh, yes he did!” screamed one of my Facebook friends this week. “I know Lincoln got the most votes and so did Clinton.”
Most means plurality, y’all. A majority is 50 percent plus one. And while we are on the subject, we are not a democratic republic, either, no matter what the revisionist history books might claim. That’s just a term Andrew Jackson coined for political purposes in the 1820s and it stuck with some people. We are a republic. We have a federalist form of government where the power is supposed to be divided between the states and the central government and neither is subservient to the other. Both are supposed to get their powers directly from the people."
"I am tired of hearing about our democracy and the popular vote. We are not a democracy, and a whole lot of people should be really glad about that, too, because in a democracy, mob rule applies. The majority is the boss of everybody, and if we had been a democracy in 1865 slavery would have never been abolished. If we had been a democracy in 1920, the women would have never gotten the vote. If we had been a democracy in 1964 and 1965, those historic pieces of civil rights legislation would never have been approved. In fact, if we had been a democracy in 1776, the Declaration of Independence would never have been adopted because the majority of the colonists were afraid to pursue independence, just like a majority of Americans opposed women’s suffrage and abolition and sweeping civil rights reform.
For the record, Abraham Lincoln did not get a majority of the popular vote in 1860, and Bill Clinton did not get a majority of the popular vote in 1992 or 1996.
“Oh, yes he did!” screamed one of my Facebook friends this week. “I know Lincoln got the most votes and so did Clinton.”
Most means plurality, y’all. A majority is 50 percent plus one. And while we are on the subject, we are not a democratic republic, either, no matter what the revisionist history books might claim. That’s just a term Andrew Jackson coined for political purposes in the 1820s and it stuck with some people. We are a republic. We have a federalist form of government where the power is supposed to be divided between the states and the central government and neither is subservient to the other. Both are supposed to get their powers directly from the people."
Article IV Section 4 of the Constitution states: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government"...If we the American people don't stop this and start a reversal of the present trend, the free Republic of America will be lost for generations to come to a Socialist, tyrannical government mob. It begs the question, "Do we really care enough?" There seems to be a great awakening of all freedom loving Americans to the fact, that a people can become slaves to the government, as well as a plantation owner. Do you really care enough? I believe we said yes to that question on November 8th by electing Donald Trump to start a reversal of the present trend toward government rule, and returning this country to people rule.
"And now the people have spoken and the message is loud and clear, under the Constitution, that the people want this country to go in a new direction. And no matter how much they hated to do so, Hillary and Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, and President Obama did and said all the right things this week to propel us toward that smooth transition of power.
And yet in many of our nation’s cities, ignorant young people who have no knowledge of how this Republic is supposed to work are dying to get attention by marching in the streets and generally acting the fool — and, no, these are not the peaceful protests guaranteed by the First Amendment. You must have a grievance to protest. These are spoiled brats and attention-seekers and they should be ashamed."
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