Posted on 01/30/2020 4:22:55 AM PST by Kaslin
During President Donald J. Trump's impeachment trial, we'll hear a lot of talk about our rules for governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we've become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact, the word democracy appears nowhere in our nation's two most fundamental documents, the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The founders laid the ground rules for a republic as written in the Constitution's Article IV, Section 4, which guarantees "to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government."
John Adams captured the essence of the difference between a democracy and republic when he said, "You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the Universe." Contrast the framers' vision of a republic with that of a democracy. In a democracy, the majority rules either directly or through its elected representatives. As in a monarchy, the law is whatever the government determines it to be. Laws do not represent reason. They represent power. The restraint is upon the individual instead of the government. Unlike that envisioned under a republican form of government, rights are seen as privileges and permissions that are granted by government and can be rescinded by government.
Here are a few quotations that demonstrate the contempt that our founders held for a democracy. James Madison, in Federalist Paper No. 10, wrote that in a pure democracy, "there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or the obnoxious individual."
At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Edmund Randolph said that "in tracing these evils to their origin every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy." Alexander Hamilton agreed, saying: "We are now forming a republican government. (Liberty) is found not in "the extremes of democracy but in moderate governments. ... If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon shoot into a monarchy."
John Adams reminded us: "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
John Marshall, the highly respected fourth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court observed, "Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos."
Thomas Paine said, "A Democracy is the vilest form of Government there is."
The framers gave us a Constitution replete with undemocratic mechanisms. One constitutional provision that has come in for recent criticism is the Electoral College. In their wisdom, the framers gave us the Electoral College as a means of deciding presidential elections. That means heavily populated states can't run roughshod over small, less-populated states.
Were we to choose the president and vice president under a popular vote, the outcome of presidential races would always be decided by a few highly populated states, namely California, Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, which contain 134.3 million people, or 41% of our population. Presidential candidates could safely ignore the interests of the citizens of Wyoming, Alaska, Vermont, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Delaware. Why? They have only 5.58 million Americans, or 1.7% of the U.S. population. We would no longer be a government "of the people." Instead, our government would be put in power by and accountable to the leaders and citizens of a few highly populated states. It would be the kind of tyranny the framers feared.
It's Congress that poses the greatest threat to our liberties. The framers' distrust is seen in the negative language of our Bill of Rights such as: Congress "shall not abridge, infringe, deny, disparage, and shall not be violated, nor be denied." When we die and if at our next destination we see anything like a Bill of Rights, we know that we're in hell because a Bill of Rights in heaven would suggest that God couldn't be trusted.
One of the coolest things I ever did about 12 years ago with call George Mason University and ask for Dr. Williams. They put me through to his office and he actually took my call I just simply wanted to talk to him and ask him a few questions and he spent about 30 minutes on the phone with me. That was a great memory. I was contemplating changing careers and sort of having a pipe dream about being an economist so I asked him some advice and some other questions.
The Rats have been rotting our Constitutional Republic from the beginning. Like termites in the timbers. If we followed the Constitution as written just as if we followed the Ten Commandments there would be a whole lot less problems in this country. But alas,evil is as evil does.
Meanwhile, newly psychotic VA wants to give its electoral votes to whomever wins the “popular” vote.
Eventually the people who make no secret of trying to destroy our country will be asked “politely” to leave. Either that or they win.
Williams is a Free Traitor™ globalist.
The Rats are masters of Unintended Consequences. They salt will flow like cornucopia when Trump wins the popular vote and those states who voted for Hillary (again!) have to give their EV to Trump.
From your keyboard to God’s ear.
I am truly afraid of what will happen if he does not win.
They no longer hide their intentions of “pay back”.
Not me. I guess you could say I’m “fearless”. I see the vast potential in “Accelerationism” but not enough to vote for a Rat. Just consider, it would allow us to actually just plain and simple send 30 million illegals home. It would allow us to “politely” invite all the folks who want to destroy the US to leave. Like Singapore. With the same admonition: “If we catch you trying to come back you will be shot on the spot, no questions.” I’m hoping they over reach, big time. Plus anyone who bitches about it gets to leave, too.
I guess that makes everything he’s ever written worthy of only being in a trashcan of a burned down building. I guess you look real smart now.
Williams is a Libertarian and an enemy of nationalism. I have zero use for him.
The Constitution says natural born citizen.
Obama is not one.
None of the popular children of foreign nationals are.
They were ALL born with divided citizenship, the very condition the founders sought to exclude.
NONE of our elected or appointed stood for our Constitution.
Beautiful Americans, my fellow Americans:
Our sons, fathers, uncles, friends have been put in kill or be killed situations on battlefields.
Our daughters, moms, nieces, aunties have been degraded, dehumanized, raped by Hollywood and evil individuals.
Our hardwork, kindness, goodwill, honor has been destroyed by kickback/extortion schemes called “foreign aide” to further enrich evil “representatives” and their families and friends.
All the while our time of life is cut short and wasted by debt/tax slavery.
Well, Looks like the Trump team has uncovered the mother lode.
“High-ranking Justice Department officials are leaking troubling details of a massive cover up involving Hillary and Bill Clinton, the State Department and governments in Europe and beyond in a scheme that steered untold billions of tax dollars from numerous countries to the Clinton Foundation and Clinton associates.
Thomas Paine broke emerging details of the exclusive story on his new Podcast on Wednesday and also discussed the growing scandal Tuesday night on his Patreon show.
And now former Vice President Joe Biden’s name has surfaced as part of the Clinton’s global fraud network, federal sources confirm. Biden is currently a Democratic candidate for president.
“This is a cartel,” a top level federal source said. “This is organized crime at the highest level.”
Billions of dollars in tax monies swiped from the U.S. Treasury while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state and funneled to shell companies and associates who kicked back untold hordes of cash to the Clinton Foundation and in essence: to the Clinton’s themselves.
Added to that large cache of cash, federal law enforcement sources, are now detailing other countries and even more money involved in the scheme: Norway, New Zealand, Australia, India, Switzerland for starters. And that list will grow. And so will the illicit funds.
Attorney General William Barr’s Justice Department has been giving Hillary Clinton and other Democratic politicians another free pass. And federal agents are beyond steamed.
Here is an excerpt from the podcast.
Let me put this into simple terms. So you understand what’s going on. The Democrats and some of their friends — maybe even GOP folks. Okay, but the Obama Administration, Hillary, the Biden’s and many others. It may go all the way up to the top before it’s all over. Okay, they fleeced multiple countries multiple companies including the United States government of billions of dollars.
This is no longer Millions. This is in the billions. So when some politician — even Ted Cruz was talking and rambling about it today about Hunter Biden got one million dollars. That’s a f*cking joke. That’s a f*cking joke. This is billions of dollars. If somebody in Congress is saying hey, this guy got a million, that’s a cover for much more than a million.
These guys moved out of the million neighborhood a long time ago.
A Million is like what somebody in state government takes.
This is billions.
And there’s more than one corrupt member of the Biden family.
And there’s more than one country than Ukraine. If they were doing this in Ukraine, don’t you think that they would duplicate the scheme in other countries? They did and they did it with other people, other corporations, other nonprofits — they ripped them off.
And that’s why the scheme known as the Clinton foundation in Clinton Global initiative is collapsing because everybody’s pissed and people are talking. So when you hear somebody in Congress say, oh, oh, he took a million dollars — ********. These f*cking guys are professional thieves. They don’t get out of bed unless it’s way more than a million dollars.
Give me a break.
These guys are Pros, man.
Million dollars. It’s like a joke. It’s like going down to Wawa and getting a cup of coffee and a sandwich.
Million dollars. Come on, man. Get real.
These guys are all covering for each other. This is a massive scheme. This is why they want to get him out (Trump). They want him out of DC so everything will go back to normal. Everybody can start relaxing and don’t have to worry about all that foreign Aid you’re giving out the countries.
That money was being laundered back to the Clinton’s and their cronies”
h/t chubbar at zero hedge 2 hours ago
flr
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.