Posted on 11/17/2008 10:44:04 AM PST by Loud Mime
They’re not spinning....they are screaming at us from beyond.
Unfortunately many of the evils that we overthrew back then have been reimposed on us by our own elected while we neglected to over see them because trusted our press to inform us. When they claimed to be unbiased we trusted them, all the while they were getting into bed with those elected and they have formed a partnership whose goal, it appears, is to enslave us all through force of laws designed to take away our natural rights as spelled out in the supposedly unalterable amendments.
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'Celebrity Politics', what an apt phrase! I agree with your post wholeheartedly.
Here's another Madison favorite of mine-
A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy; or, perhaps, both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. James Madison - Letter to W. T. Barry, August 4, 1822
No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and Virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.
Samuel Adams, letter to James Warren, November 4, 1775
Nothing is more certain than that a general profligacy and corruption of manners make a people ripe for destruction. A good form of government may hold the rotten materials together for some time, but beyond a certain pitch, even the best constitution will be ineffectual, and slavery must ensue.
John Witherspoon, The Dominion of Providence Over the Passions of Men, 1776
Every time I read Samuel Adams I wish I could join him at a pub for some conversation; he had a great mind.
It is sad that our government is now showing all the signs that the founders warned us about. If they saw the debates on same-sex marriage they would be horrified. Even they did not foresee such a perverted event.
If they could speak to us directly, what do you suppose those great men would say to us about now?
That’s easy.
1) Go back to the basics
2) Get off your ass and get to work.
I’m a frequent letter-writer and have a website (now undergoing remake) that’s political in nature. All of these efforts start from the basics: our Constitution.
IMHO, if you want to find the true meaning of the Constitution, you need to read the first of the 4 (or is it 5?) legal treaties written after ratification.
View of the Constitution of the United States
NOTE B.
OF THE SEVERAL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT
PRELIMINARY REMARKS
SOVEREIGNTY
As the sovereign power hath no limits to its authority, so hath the government of a state no rights, but such as are purely derivative, and limited; the union of the SOVEREIGNTY of a state with the GOVERNMENT, constitutes a state of USURPATION and absolute TYRANNY, over the PEOPLE.
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Since the union of the sovereignty with the government, constitutes a state of absolute power, or tyranny, over the people, every attempt to effect such an union is treason against the sovereignty, in the actors; and every extension of the administrative authority beyond its just constitutional limits, is absolutely an act of usurpation in the government, of that sovereignty, which the people have reserved to themselves.
They wouldn't be asking us anything.
They would be to out of breath from smacking us upside our silly heads. :-)
LOL!
I strongly suspect you are correct!
Everything else is politically irrelevant.
Thanks for an EXCELLENT link!
It is a shame that there are so few these days who are the slightest bit interested in how our nation was created and what those who managed to get that done thought about what they had accomplished.
A great link.....I’m looking at the main page and the library they are offering......
I have maintained for some time that the 17th Amendment allowed two sections of the legislature to be guided by greed and government growth. The State-appointed Senators were the guardians of the 10th Amendment. Once removed, the 10th lost its function, losing to the will of the popular senators who were willing to fund their re-election with benefits from the treasury.
What is conservative? Conservative is a belief in the other C-word: the Constitution. Madison stayed to the letter of the Constitution, something we do not see from any politician at present.
The 17th amendment effectively cut one leg off of a three legged stool and we ALL know that two legged stools just do not work well.
The founder’s genius in creating our form of government has been subverted. They intended that the House would be the peoples house with it’s members directly elected by the people. The Senate was to be the house which represented the interests of the individual states and the executive was to ensure that the laws were faithfully executed.
Because of the 17th amendment the individual states are no longer represented and that is a HUGE problem!.
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