The US CONSTITUTION Prevents a Tyrant from Ruling by Mandate & Executive Orders and Weaponizing Law Enforcement Against Political Opponents!
Sep 19, 2022 20:27:59 #
The most common form of government in world history is power concentrated into the hands of one person. This person is called by different names in different countries: King, Khan, Caesar, Kaiser, Czar, Sultan, Maharaja, Emperor, Chairman Mao, Comrade Stalin, or El Presidente. Though the name changes, the function remains the same -- one person rule.
At the time of the American Revolution, the King of England was the most powerful king on the planet. The writers of the Constitution had one overriding concern -- how to prevent power from re-concentrating. They designed the Constitution to take the concentrated power of a king and separate it into three branches and pit the branches against each other in a three-way tug-of-war to check power; then separate power into Federal and State levels, then tie up this Federal Frankenstein with ten handcuffs--the First Ten Amendments.
In a word, the U.S. Constitution is simply a way to prevent a President from ruling through mandates and executive orders -- to prevent one-person rule. The founders sacrificed to break away from a tyrant who had weaponized law enforcement against his political opponents, as they admitted in the Declaration of Independence:
"The history of the present King of Great-Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States ... He has made judges dependent on his Will alone ... He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people ... A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
A monarchy is where the power flows TOP-DOWN, from the king through a deep-state bureaucracy to the lowly subjects below.
In contrast, in republics, the power flows BOTTOM-UP, from the citizens to their elected public-servant representatives.
It is the difference between a dead pyramid, ruled from top-down, and a living tree, where every root, even the tiniest, must participate from the bottom-up to keep the tree alive -- every citizen must be involved.
Where kings have "subjects" who are subjected to the king's will, republics have "citizens." "Citizen" is a Greek word having the meaning of co-ruler, co-sovereign, co-king. Citizens are in charge of their own lives, and together, are in charge of the country.
A republic differs from a democracy. The word "democracy" has two general definitions: 1) one is a general reference to "popular" governments, where the population -- the people rule themselves; 2) the other is an actual system of government.
As an actual system of government, a DEMOCRACY only successfully worked on a small scale, like the Greek city-states that began to around 800 BC. where THE PEOPLE ruled directly by being present at every meeting. City-states were limited in size, as logistically, every citizen had to go to the marketplace every day to discuss every issue face to face. It was very time consuming. If a democracy grew larger than where citizens could travel the distance to the market every day, power subtlety t***sferred to the busy-body messengers who carried news of the issues back and forth, and they could slant it any way they wanted.
A republic, on the other hand, is where THE PEOPLE rule indirectly through their representatives.
Republics could grow larger than democracies, as citizens could spend their time taking care of their families and farms, and have representatives in their place go to the market every day to discuss politics.
America's republic is unique in that it has grown to have the most citizens of any republic in world history, as Theodore Roosevelt stated October 24, 1903:
"In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country."
In the Roman Republic, "representatives" were hereditary positions. The American Republic is a hybrid, where representatives are democratically elected.
A "constitutional" republic limits representatives with a set of rules approved by the citizens. Where democracies are susceptible to being whipped into a frenzy, allowing a majority to carry out sudden mob justice, constitutional republics are slower to change, especially when they have the goal of guaranteeing to citizens' their Creator-given rights.
America's founders designed a government that was intentionally slow to change -- frustratingly slow at times in making good changes, but thankfully slow in making irreversible bad changes. The founders realized it could take a lifetime to build a mansion and one irresponsible match to burn it down in a day.
A signer of the Constitution James McHenry noted in his diary (American Historical Review, 1906), that after Ben Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, he was asked by Mrs. Elizabeth Powel of Philadelphia: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."
A republic is where power is taken away from a tyrant and given to the people. Webster's 1828 Dictionary defined "REPUBLIC": ... exercise of the SOVEREIGN POWER is lodged in representatives elected by THE PEOPLE."
Those with political agendas endlessly try to push their will, developing methods of manipulation. In popular governments, having recognition and praise from other citizens is continually sought for as the greatest honor; and having other citizens ridicule or ostracized you is the greatest shame to be avoided at all costs.
Where did the writers of the Constitution get many of their ideas? Professors Donald S. Lutz and Charles S. Hyneman published an article in American Political Science Review, 1984, titled "The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late 18th-Century American Political Thought."
They examined nearly 15,000 writings of the 55 writers of the U.S. Constitution, including newspaper articles, pamphlets, books and monographs, and discovered that the Bible, especially the book of Deuteronomy, contributed 34 percent of all direct quotes made by the Founders.
When indirect Bible citations were included, the percentage rose even higher.
George Washington opened the Constitutional Convention, stating:
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God."
The last line of the Constitution was:
"Done ... the SEVENTEENTH DAY of SEPTEMBER, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven."
A republic only lasts as long as the citizens have morals, virtue, and self-control. John Adams warned October 11, 1798:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other ...We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge ... would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net."
Where the Constitution was designed to separate power, in times of crises, people panic and surrender power into the hands of government. Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret wrote in The Great Reset:
"One of the great lessons of the past five centuries in Europe and America is this: acute crises contribute to boosting the power of the state."
Seizing power in crises is the norm for tyrants. The American Heritage Dictionary defined the term "man on horseback" as: "A man, usually a military leader, whose popular influence and power may afford him the position of dictator, as in a time of political crisis"; and defined the word "demagogue" as: "A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace."
Harry S Truman warned (Memoirs-Vol. Two: Years of Trial and Hope) that the Constitution was written to prevent demagogue or "a man on horseback" from seizing power during crises:
"The men who wrote the Constitution knew ... that tyrannical government had come about where the powers of government were united in the hands of one man. The system they set up was designed to prevent a demagogue or 'a man on horseback' from taking over the powers of government ...The most important thought expressed in our Constitution is that the power of government shall always remain limited, through the separation of powers."
Washington warned in the original draft of his Inaugural Address, 1789:
"Should ... those incited by the lust of power ... over leap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to show, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable (impenetrable) ...no wall of words ... no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."
U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge stated in 1919:
"The United States is THE WORLD'S BEST HOPE ...Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance ...
At the time of the American Revolution, the King of England was the most powerful king on the planet. The writers of the Constitution had one overriding concern -- how to prevent power from re-concentrating. They designed the Constitution to take the concentrated power of a king and separate it into three branches and pit the branches against each other in a three-way tug-of-war to check power; then separate power into Federal and State levels, then tie up this Federal Frankenstein with ten handcuffs--the First Ten Amendments.
In a word, the U.S. Constitution is simply a way to prevent a President from ruling through mandates and executive orders -- to prevent one-person rule. The founders sacrificed to break away from a tyrant who had weaponized law enforcement against his political opponents, as they admitted in the Declaration of Independence:
"The history of the present King of Great-Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States ... He has made judges dependent on his Will alone ... He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people ... A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
A monarchy is where the power flows TOP-DOWN, from the king through a deep-state bureaucracy to the lowly subjects below.
In contrast, in republics, the power flows BOTTOM-UP, from the citizens to their elected public-servant representatives.
It is the difference between a dead pyramid, ruled from top-down, and a living tree, where every root, even the tiniest, must participate from the bottom-up to keep the tree alive -- every citizen must be involved.
Where kings have "subjects" who are subjected to the king's will, republics have "citizens." "Citizen" is a Greek word having the meaning of co-ruler, co-sovereign, co-king. Citizens are in charge of their own lives, and together, are in charge of the country.
A republic differs from a democracy. The word "democracy" has two general definitions: 1) one is a general reference to "popular" governments, where the population -- the people rule themselves; 2) the other is an actual system of government.
As an actual system of government, a DEMOCRACY only successfully worked on a small scale, like the Greek city-states that began to around 800 BC. where THE PEOPLE ruled directly by being present at every meeting. City-states were limited in size, as logistically, every citizen had to go to the marketplace every day to discuss every issue face to face. It was very time consuming. If a democracy grew larger than where citizens could travel the distance to the market every day, power subtlety t***sferred to the busy-body messengers who carried news of the issues back and forth, and they could slant it any way they wanted.
A republic, on the other hand, is where THE PEOPLE rule indirectly through their representatives.
Republics could grow larger than democracies, as citizens could spend their time taking care of their families and farms, and have representatives in their place go to the market every day to discuss politics.
America's republic is unique in that it has grown to have the most citizens of any republic in world history, as Theodore Roosevelt stated October 24, 1903:
"In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country."
In the Roman Republic, "representatives" were hereditary positions. The American Republic is a hybrid, where representatives are democratically elected.
A "constitutional" republic limits representatives with a set of rules approved by the citizens. Where democracies are susceptible to being whipped into a frenzy, allowing a majority to carry out sudden mob justice, constitutional republics are slower to change, especially when they have the goal of guaranteeing to citizens' their Creator-given rights.
America's founders designed a government that was intentionally slow to change -- frustratingly slow at times in making good changes, but thankfully slow in making irreversible bad changes. The founders realized it could take a lifetime to build a mansion and one irresponsible match to burn it down in a day.
A signer of the Constitution James McHenry noted in his diary (American Historical Review, 1906), that after Ben Franklin left the Constitutional Convention, he was asked by Mrs. Elizabeth Powel of Philadelphia: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."
A republic is where power is taken away from a tyrant and given to the people. Webster's 1828 Dictionary defined "REPUBLIC": ... exercise of the SOVEREIGN POWER is lodged in representatives elected by THE PEOPLE."
Those with political agendas endlessly try to push their will, developing methods of manipulation. In popular governments, having recognition and praise from other citizens is continually sought for as the greatest honor; and having other citizens ridicule or ostracized you is the greatest shame to be avoided at all costs.
Where did the writers of the Constitution get many of their ideas? Professors Donald S. Lutz and Charles S. Hyneman published an article in American Political Science Review, 1984, titled "The Relative Influence of European Writers on Late 18th-Century American Political Thought."
They examined nearly 15,000 writings of the 55 writers of the U.S. Constitution, including newspaper articles, pamphlets, books and monographs, and discovered that the Bible, especially the book of Deuteronomy, contributed 34 percent of all direct quotes made by the Founders.
When indirect Bible citations were included, the percentage rose even higher.
George Washington opened the Constitutional Convention, stating:
"Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God."
The last line of the Constitution was:
"Done ... the SEVENTEENTH DAY of SEPTEMBER, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven."
A republic only lasts as long as the citizens have morals, virtue, and self-control. John Adams warned October 11, 1798:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other ...We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge ... would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net."
Where the Constitution was designed to separate power, in times of crises, people panic and surrender power into the hands of government. Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret wrote in The Great Reset:
"One of the great lessons of the past five centuries in Europe and America is this: acute crises contribute to boosting the power of the state."
Seizing power in crises is the norm for tyrants. The American Heritage Dictionary defined the term "man on horseback" as: "A man, usually a military leader, whose popular influence and power may afford him the position of dictator, as in a time of political crisis"; and defined the word "demagogue" as: "A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace."
Harry S Truman warned (Memoirs-Vol. Two: Years of Trial and Hope) that the Constitution was written to prevent demagogue or "a man on horseback" from seizing power during crises:
"The men who wrote the Constitution knew ... that tyrannical government had come about where the powers of government were united in the hands of one man. The system they set up was designed to prevent a demagogue or 'a man on horseback' from taking over the powers of government ...The most important thought expressed in our Constitution is that the power of government shall always remain limited, through the separation of powers."
Washington warned in the original draft of his Inaugural Address, 1789:
"Should ... those incited by the lust of power ... over leap the known barriers of this Constitution and violate the unalienable rights of humanity: it will only serve to show, that no compact among men (however provident in its construction and sacred in its ratification) can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable (impenetrable) ...no wall of words ... no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."
U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge stated in 1919:
"The United States is THE WORLD'S BEST HOPE ...Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance ...
Sep 20, 2022 00:35:33 #
LogicallyRight
Loc: Chicago
Well worth the read and so true. We can start reclaiming our Republic by firing the bastards in Congress and installing TERM LIMITS. Then eliminate all executive orders ever written. Allow only with a limited time frame in emergencies and if Congress doesn't turn it into law, it becomes void.
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