Posted on 01/28/2009 11:08:26 AM PST by Loud Mime
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The republican government guarantee is the way the Federal gov’t has been able to insert itself into matters of state and local corruption. It’s why we see Fitzgerald going after Blago.
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One does not need arms to conduct a revolution...
People would read that, they’d go into a fit that ‘republican’ is capitalized. They fought for and established a republic, that is known among anybody that understands American history. I just think that capitalization should be carefully done so as not to make Liberal heads explode.
Republic form of government = republican
Republican = right-leaning political party
We were doomed to fail soon after Lincoln was assissinated.
Prior to that event, people used to say, “the United Staes are...”
After that event, people began to say, “the United States is...”
That’s the point when the States lost their power to the Federal government.
The only thing left is socialism or revolution!
"Of course, having a republican form of government doesnt mean that only republicans should hold office any more than a democracy would demand that only democrats should hold office; the guarantee refers to a type of national government."
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We did need the new Constitution.
Have you read “The Summer of 1787?”
Those are the bare bones and I will have to get back into Washington Irving's Life of Washington, Vol IV. to firm up the details and time frame.
The Republican Form of Government Clause might be a proper Constitutional basis for going after local corruption, but in fact Congress has not passed any laws relying on that clause. The prosecution of Blago, and similar cases, are based on the mail fraud statute.
"The Whiskey Rebellion was an insurrection in 1794 by settlers in the Monongahela Valley in western Pennsylvania who fought against a federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks.
The ineffective government of the United States under the Articles of Confederation was replaced by a stronger federal government under the United States Constitution in 1788. This new government inherited a huge debt from the American Revolutionary War. One of the steps taken to pay down the debt was a tax imposed in 1791 on distilled spirits.
Large producers were assessed a tax of six cents a gallon. However, smaller producers, most of whom were farmers in the more remote western areas, were taxed at a higher rate of nine cents a gallon. These Western settlers were short of cash to begin with, and lacked any practical means to get their grain to market other than fermenting and distilling it into relatively portable distilled spirits. From Pennsylvania to Georgia, the western counties engaged in a campaign of harassment of the federal tax collectors. In the summer of 1794, George Washington and Alexander Hamilton, remembering Shays' Rebellion from just eight years before, decided to make Pennsylvania a testing ground for federal authority. Washington ordered federal marshals to serve court orders requiring the tax protesters to appear in federal district court in Philadelphia.
By August of 1794, the protests became dangerously close to outright rebellion and on August 7 several thousand armed settlers gathered near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Washington then invoked the Militia Law of 1792 to summon the militias of several states. A force of 13,000 men was organized, roughly the size of the entire army in the Revolutionary War. Under the personal command of Washington, Hamilton, and Revolutionary War hero Henry "Lighthorse Harry" LeeHenry Lee III ( January 29, 1756 March 25, 1818), American general, called Light Horse Harry was born near Dumfries, Virginia. His father was first cousin to Richard Henry Lee. With a view to a legal career he graduated ( 1773) at Princeton, but soon afte the army marched to Western Pennsylvania and quickly suppressed the revolt. Two leaders of the revolt were convicted of treason, but pardoned by Washington.
This response marked the first time under the new Constitution that the federal government had used strong military force to exert authority over the nation's citizens. It also was the only time that a sitting President would personally command the military in the field.
The whiskey tax was repealed in 1802, never having been collected with much success.
No. It looks good though.
I must disagree.
The form described and designed by the Founders was one that gave the States separation from many Federal actions. The 17th Amendment changed the forces and the interest in that matter, allowing government influence to grow.
In the old style, the feds would not get involved, or would have had a reason to do anything. The new senator would have been left to the Legislature.
There were still lots of Tories who had stayed instead of populating Canada.
...and the Southern States were worried of slave rebellions.
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