Posted on 11/14/2016 12:05:22 PM PST by Kaslin
The progressives are determined to get rid of the Electoral College. Of course they are. Abolishing the Electoral College would complete their project of overthrowing America's unique federal system, begun about one hundred years ago.
The direct election of senators was the first and greatest victory of the progressives over the Framers of the Constitution. Made possible by the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913, it mortally wounded the Founders' system. Abolishing the Electoral College will finish the job. And the progressives mean to do just that.
If we want to understand the efforts of the Framers during that hot summer in 1787, we must see them as trying to design self-government with a sober assessment of human nature in mind. When in the next century Lord Acton wrote that "power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely," he captured in a ringing aphorism the view of the Founders.
This understanding of the effect of political power on human nature explains the Framers' focus on defining and limiting federal power. They did so by distributing power among the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government; preserving the political independence of the states; and creating a zone of liberty around the individual – even by further dividing the (supreme) legislative power itself, crafting two legislative bodies with separate powers and potentially competing interests.
Jefferson put it this way:
And Lord Acton put it this way:
Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.
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If they don’t want borders around the nation, why would they want borders inside the nation?
Democracy is mob rule with a ballot box.
The criminal mission of the corrupt Washington cartel is to steal and exercise not only state powers, but also steal state revenues uniquely associtated with those powers.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
But in order for the crooks behind the Washington cartel to steal state powers and state revenues, those crooks must also control the electoral college.
And citizens need to understand that, military issues aside, basically all that their state’s electoral votes for POTUS gets for them is a voice in deciding how the US Mail Service is run, running the Mail Service being one of the very few powers (1.8.7) that the states have expressly constitutionally delegated to the feds.
In other words, most federal social spending programs are based on stolen state powers and revenues, corrupt lawmakers establishing such programs to win votes from low-information voters who don’t understand that the feds have little constitutional authority to tax and spend for anything not related to the US Mail Service.
Note that the founders had expected citizens to deal with their state lawmakers concerning government services.
"Our citizens have wisely formed themselves into one nation as to others and several States as among themselves. To the united nation belong our external and mutual relations; to each State, severally, the care of our persons, our property, our reputation and religious freedom." --Thomas Jefferson: To Rhode Island Assembly, 1801.
The problem is that the feds have been stealing, and continue to steal, the state revenues that the states need to run such programs.
So President-elect Trump needs to plan to work with the states to politically “force” the corrupt Washington cartel to surrender stolen state powers back to the states.
Then Trump can start spending lots of the time on golf courses like Obama did, the Founding States arguably expecting the POTUS of the constitutionally limited power federal government to spend time with such leisurely activities.
Ditto
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It’s sad that the majority of USA residents are too uninformed to understand the brilliance of the electoral college. Like their misguided support for minimum wage laws, they will always want to scrap the electoral college.
Article II lists ten powers to the President, the last of which is to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed,” something most have failed to handle.
Is it Teton or Jackson, or both?
Yes, it also means “division of power” between nation and state.
Both plus places just east of Driggs, Ida.
Giving emphasis to counties within a State is GENIUS. Well done!
Even going to a one & one would be a plus.
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Unless the Sheep has an AR-15 and knows how to use it.
Mobs don’t think, they act. They act poorly as demonstrated on the streets today. Democracy is mob rule. The Founding Fathers feared democracies. The EC was designed to blunt mob stupidity.
Yup.
All in America should know why a constitutional republic is superior to a democracy.
The Senate represented the States themselves at the Federal level. That’s a big reason why treaties have to be approved by the Senate, since they bind the States.
That’s unfortunately very true.
From what I can tell, the Senate still represents the States at the federal level but the representation is flawed in that it is of the flat majority in the state, not a true statewide/republican representation of each area of the state.
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