The wisdom of the Founders never ceases to amaze me. I just reread Federalist #68 by Alexander Hamiliton. It is quite prophetic. It relates to the Electorial College and why they were put in place to choose the President. May I quote the 5th paragraph?
“Nothing was more to be desired than that every practicable obstacle should be opposed to cabal, intrigue and corruption. These most deadly adversaries of republican government might naturally have been expected to make their approaches from more than one quarter, but chiefly from THE DESIRE OF FOREIGN POWERS TO GAIN AN IMPROPER ASCENDANT IN OUR COUNCILS. HOW COULD THEY BETTER GRATIFY THIS, THAN BY RAISING A CREATURE OF THEIR OWN TO THE CHIEF MAGISTRACY OF THE UNION? But the convention have guarded against all danger of this sort, with the most provident and judicious attention. They have not made the appointment of the President to depend on any preexisting bodies of men, who might be tampered with beforehand to prostitute their votes; but they have referred it in the first instance to an immediate act of the people of America, to be exerted in the choice of persons for the temporary and sole purpose of making the appointment. And they have excluded from eligibility to this trust, all those who from situation might be suspected of too great devoltion to the President in office. . . . Thus without corrupting the body of the people, the immediate agents in the election will at least enter upon the task free from any sinister bias.”
Let us hope they are free from any sinister bias. May the miracle we pray for happen. May the truth soon come out. May this false candidate be disqualfied and a true patriot, Democrat or Republican, be chosen by the Electors!
Posted by Dean M at texasdarlin.wordpress.com
That kind of Electoral College never truly existed. To the extent it did exist, it was vanquished by the 12th Amendment.
Which begs the question as to the source of $200+ mil foreign campaign contributions.
me thinks Bush is being suspiciously quiet about all of this.
Excellent post bookmark!!
Hamilton’s genius and concern had been thwarted by the creation of the forerunner of the Democrat party in the early 1790s by Jefferson and Madison. A party created explicitly to stop him and his ideas. Slowly democratic influence has been expanded and the federal structure weakened as the electorate has expanded to include 35% who pay no income taxes. Federalism was also critically injured by the direct election of Senators.
Our Founders despised parties, factions they called them, and would have never believed that one so large and opposed to critical national interests as the Democrat would obtain power.
Outstanding. Ping.
‘’The wisdom of the Founders never ceases to amaze me. I just reread Federalist #68 by Alexander Hamiliton. It is quite prophetic. It relates to the Electorial College and why they were put in place to choose the President. May I quote the 5th paragraph?.......””” (freepers, please read:
The wisdom of the Founders never ceases to amaze me. I just reread Federalist #68 by Alexander Hamiliton. It is quite prophetic. It relates to the Electorial College and why they were put in place to choose the President. May I quote the 5th paragraph? ............ ping to post 88 for the rest
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132471/posts?q=1&;page=88
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Absolutely Brilliant!
And which Presidential candidate wrote his dissertation on Alexander Hamilton while studying at Harvard?
ALAN KEYES!!!
Bookmark & BTTT !!!
Great post, thank you.