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Structure is Destiny

Posted on 06/07/2013 8:39:41 AM PDT by Jacquerie

Conservatives tout the importance of the traditional family to our society. Father, mother, children, the family is the building block, the foundation of society. This isn’t news to any civilization. Radical Leftists tell us it doesn’t matter. A family is whatever one or two or more people of any sex wish it to be. After almost fifty years of the Great Society, in which many fathers were replaced with a monthly stipend to mothers, we conservatives know the results. Directionless, violent and barbaric boys grow into felonious men. Absent the proven institution, the structure of traditional marriage, women still have babies, but our culture and civilization suffer. We know this.

Focus on the importance of structure, and apply it to political science, to American history.

In 1776, thirteen American colonies declared independence. Just a few months before the last great battle of the ensuing war, in March 1781, they formalized a quasi-government under the Articles of Confederation. By 1787, it was clear enough the Union was dissolving. The structure of the Articles was insufficient to provide good government. Twelve of the thirteen states sent delegates to a convention to correct its inherent, structural problems. After a summer of effort, they devised a new plan ratified by the people of eleven states within a year.

Structure. There was little difference between the morals and attitudes of the people who drafted the Articles and the Constitution. Indeed, some of the same men who signed the Articles, also signed the Constitution. What changed was the structure of the American government.

The American Union, teetering back on its heels under the Articles, thrived when released by the Constitution. The more perfect union of the Constitution set the stage for freedom and prosperity. A largely agricultural backwater in 1789 grew to become a solid second tier industrial and economic powerhouse in less than a hundred years.

Structure. Just as non-traditional “families” are unnatural and destructive, the Articles of Confederation demonstrated that governments not sufficiently divided into their natural functions were inherently unstable and ineffective. The American Constitutional Union, like the timeless husband/wife/children familial structure, recognized the natural structure of free government.

That natural structure meant separation of powers, and not just the civics class horizontal legislative/executive/judicial. The first, and most important separation was the vertical division of powers between the federal government and states, as enforced by a Senate of the States. In this all important structure, state participation meant a federal government and court system well-confined to enumerated powers and one that respected the Tenth Amendment.

Structure is destiny. The 17th Amendment removed the states from the federal government. In their stead, it created another popularly elected body. Make no mistake, the new Senate beginning in 1913 is a monster, a political Frankenstein that combines the worst of long termed popularly elected politicians with incredible power tied to the executive branch.

As the modern Left redefined and corrupted the natural order, the structure of family, the Left of a hundred years ago did the same to federated, free government. Restoration of republican freedom is impossible without rebuilding the Framers’ structure, and that requires a Senate of the States. The 17th must go.


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 17th; constitution; seventeenth; statesrights; vanity
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To: Jacquerie

You’re doing great work. Ignore the critics. They’re nobodies doing nothing. You’re changing the way people think.


61 posted on 06/07/2013 7:50:56 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: BillyBoy

Another boot lick has spoken.


62 posted on 06/07/2013 11:06:22 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
Conservative activists from Illinois

That is rich.....

63 posted on 06/07/2013 11:07:16 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va; Impy; fieldmarshaldj
>> Another boot lick has spoken. <<

Yes, we're well aware you lick the boot of your state government overlords. No need to remind us.

>> Conservative activists from Illinois That is rich..... <<

I guess you missed the news about the "progressives" in Illinois being unable to pass gay marriage in this state despite having a veto proof majority in both of both houses of their gerrymandered legislature. Guess who stopped it? It sure wasn't the conservative activists from Virginia who can't stop their allegedly "conservative" state from voting for Obama.

64 posted on 06/07/2013 11:51:56 PM PDT by BillyBoy ( Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: BillyBoy

Who was it, then?


65 posted on 06/07/2013 11:55:07 PM PDT by RedHeeler
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To: BillyBoy

If I were from Illinois, wait I would leave that hell hole.....


66 posted on 06/07/2013 11:59:04 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

And I believed I’d be better served by politicians appointing my Senators for me, I’d move to Canada.


67 posted on 06/08/2013 12:02:00 AM PDT by BillyBoy ( Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Actually, I think he is Dan Proft


68 posted on 06/08/2013 6:52:27 AM PDT by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

He is also the ILLINOIS FREE REPUBLIC PING master, saw it on a Post

He is supposed to PING The ILLINOIS list”


69 posted on 06/08/2013 6:54:36 AM PDT by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty Let the American Taxpayer foot the bill !)
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To: Jacquerie
An agency screws a voter. Said voter complains to congressional delegation. A rep or senator helps the voter deal with the problem created by Congress.

I do not suggest that any Californian try this. Boxer has such a rate of staff turnover that no one around her knows anything ... and neither does she. Feinstein? Well she is somewhat higher on the IQ scale than Boxer, (a) that ain't difficult (b) and not by much.

America has come to this: we think we need our elected ani to help us deal with bureaucracies that should not exist.

Novel concept: a modern state should be able to function oppressively enough on a budget of a maximum of 15% of GNP. We are at 22+% and climbing.

Make that 15% of GNP the Federal Budget.
Cut the government and Federal taxes to fit

Year after that, cut another 2-3%. Let the chips fall where they may.

70 posted on 06/08/2013 9:40:16 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk ("Obama" The Movie. Introducing Reggie Love as "Monica." .)
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To: chicagolady; Impy; BillyBoy

Strange that he has a blank FReeper page and no state identifier. That tends to set off alarm bells with me.


71 posted on 06/08/2013 12:39:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Jacquerie

In the Federalists they asset the importance of the different bodies of government having different characters of design and influence. The 17th allowed for popular appointments of both sections of the legislature, which was against the founder’s well thought out design of government.


72 posted on 08/13/2013 1:56:39 PM PDT by Loud Mime (Liberal: A person who charges their grandchildren for today's party)
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