What if?
And Judge Napolitano is correct.
My friends think I have a certain aims toward the democrats but I’m nearly as uncomfortable with my own supposed party.
We lost the Constitution that was penned by the founders and supported by the Federalist papers -
As soon as the Constitution was amended to directly elect Senators, rather than have them appointed by members of the State Legislators. As appointees, they were subject to recall if the Senator did not abide by the interests of the individual state.
That check and balance of states rights was completely upended by having the people directly elect Senators for six years.
Perhaps a reversion to the way the founders set up the power balance - one house for the people, the other house for the states - could totally transform the current legislative process. - For the better!
(And it could keep Chuckie Schumer only on NY TV; Boxer on CA TV)
Form 13 seperate countries (get it 13 colonies) with a shared currency and wish everyone well.
New England, Mid-Atlantic, SouthEast, Florida, Mid-west, South, Texas,South West, North West, California, Hawaii, Alaska.
I think I am missing one...?
Otherwise, do we have a Thomas Jefferson in the crowd to re-declare our independence?
Interesting post.
It is.
What do we do about it?
Nunya bidness.
What if it's too late?
It's never too late.
The founders of our republic believed that successful representative governments
required the subordination of individual personal interests to the welfare of the
community. (Read the last sentence of the Declaration of Independence.)
They believed that the political process was all about identifying the common good.
It was not about competition and disagreement; politics was a process in which
rational voters and officials calmly sorted out what best served the entire community.
The end result was not one camp of winners and another of losers, but the entire
electorate united behind a common vision.
How far we have come from having a common view for the good of the republic. It is all
about me me me. Listen to politicians at every level and party, they start everything
with “I believe” or “I want to” or “My vision” with rarely any following relation to our
republic, but instead to some special group or interest or generically “the people”.
I am reminded again of Ronald Reagan’s speech...
It’s time for choosing...
our republic or our special interests:
“You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between a Left or Right. Well I’d like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There’s only an up or down: [up] man’s old — old-aged dream, the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with law and order, or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this downward course....
You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin — just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard ‘round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn’t die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it’s a simple answer after all.
You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, “There is a price we will not pay.” “There is a point beyond which they must not advance.” And this — this is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater’s “peace through strength.” Winston Churchill said, “The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits — not animals.” And he said, “There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.”
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.
We’ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we’ll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.” — Ronald Reagan
The Constitution is the contract that brought the federal government into BEING.
If the feds by their actions violate the contract, they have breached it. Then the people have the right either to try to enforce it (good luck with that) or view it as null and void, having been breached by the other party.
If the feds repudiate it and claim it to be invalid or that it says something it clearly does not, then THEY are declaring it null and void.
In either case, the problem (for THEM) is, without the Constitution, they no longer have a legitimate claim to existence, or to expect anyone to do anything they say. Their only claim to power is brute force. They then have made themselves into tin-pot dictators.
Save for later.