Where’s The Republic?

Republic vs. Democracy

Rule by Law or Mob Rule

We Can’t Be Both

Benjamin Rush said on the ratification of the Constitution on July 9, 1788 “Tis done, we have become a nation.” And just after the completion and signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin replied to a woman’s inquiry as to the type of government the Founders had created, “A Republic, if you can keep it.”

Sorry Ben, we have failed to keep it.

Not only could we not keep it, most people do not even know what kind government the Founding Fathers created.

• A Republic is representative government ruled by law (the Constitution).
  
• A democracy is direct government ruled by the majority (mob rule).
  A Republic preserves the inalienable rights of individuals while democracies pander to wants or needs (sustenance of power).
  

Our Fore Fathers warned us of the inherent dangers found within a Democracy and a Government left unchecked. They demonstrated the import of jealous guardianship as they chose to restrict our Republican (not to do with the party of the same name) Government very carefully to those ends. Their thought processes are there, archived in their personal diaries and official documents found in public and private libraries. With great purpose of intent they placed safeguards throughout The Constitution. This makes it even more lamentable that we have not adhered to their design.

Democracies, without fail have always self-destructed when the non-productive realize that they can obtain their sustenance from the productive through the power of force enjoyed by the government. Pandering to these groups, the candidate promising the most booty looted from the public treasury must adopt an ever-increasing tax and spend policy to satisfy the ever-increasing desire of the majority. Oh, but it’s ok. As you know, they only tax the evil rich. Well, what you never hear is that if you make 30k a year you are one of those evil ones. You never hear that corporate taxes punish small businesses much more than the major corporations. Tax breaks, incentives, loopholes, and subsidies provide a protective cloak. The expense of those inescapable assessments is remunerated by the people in the form of higher prices.

As Federal tax rates increase, the incentive to produce is decreased, causing many of the once productive to be forced out or to drop out. By joining the non-productive, the cycle continues, eventually leading to a point deficient in producers to fund the legitimate functions of government. At this point the Democracy will join the precedent Republic in the fields of Appomattox. Then, as history instructs, it will be followed by a Dictatorship.

Welfare instills a fundamental dependency within the individual on the government. The individual is lost to complacency and social dependency. The welfare system is an incontrovertible failure. It has doomed generation after generation to social servitude at the feet of PHARISAICAL
leadership. The system does not promote a desire for achievement and in reality a contrary product is realized. Welfare was promoted as a temporary relief fund which provided long term assistance only to the (truly) needy. Instead, we have an inept system based on rewarding negative behavior, supported (under duress) by the productive. The “profiteers” of “class warfare” perpetuate the system retaining their power. Feigning concern, they hold the masses uninterrupted in their dependency on the government.

“Thou shalt not covet” means that it is sinful even to contemplate the seizure of another man’s goods — which is something which Socialists, whether Christian or otherwise, have never managed to explain away.”
- John Chamberlain, “The Roots of Capitalism” [1965]

The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
- Alexis de Tocqueville

In the author’s opinion this could be corrected thusly:

• The repeal of the 16^th Amendment and instituting HR 21 “The Fair Tax”.
  
• A return to State’s Rights by repealing the 17^th Amendment.
  
• Limit voters to those literate in words and subjects relative to a nation.
  
• Granting the privilege exclusively to Citizens or long term legal residents.
  

A Republic is based on a system of laws. Laws, according to those who created our Nation were to be made only in the interest of preserving freedom. That is the provision for Liberty. According to the Founder’s personal notes and diaries they conclude that laws affecting individual lives were to be left to the “Several States”. Management of local institutions, schools, social programs, local commerce, prohibitions, etc was to be left to the individual state. For instance, the people of Idaho are uninterested in the needs of the people in Carroll County, Georgia. Florida residents have the right to limit their personal individual freedoms locally if they find it necessary. However, they were not given the right to decide on limiting the freedoms of North Dakotans. Freedom is sense of choice. Only if an individual’s voluntary election of choice “makes violence” (does direct harm) to the freedom of another should there be a prohibition of that act.

Federal Lawmaking is to be a slow, deliberate process in our Constitutional Republic requiring the approval of the Three Branches of Government. The Founding Fathers were clear on this. Federal laws were not to affect an individual’s freedom with the exception of interstate or international matters. The Constitution itself lists the Federal Government’s responsibilities and plainly states that everything else is left to the “Several States” or to the individual. They were never meant for local social, economic, or penal control. The loss of State’s Rights has resulted in Governmental regulations intruding on most aspects of American life.

Lawmaking, in our present Democracy occurs rapidly requiring only the pandering to the whimsical approval of the majority. The vote is awarded to the promise of an additional loaf of bread. An important, historically defined result of this policy is an overwhelming welfare state disinterested in being productive, complacent to survive from the teat of government. They will be willing to shed a few freedoms for a little more security.

A Democracy leads directly to pandering. Political power under a Democracy relies directly upon the popular vote/opinion. Thomas Jefferson explained that those illiterate in letters and government, those unknowledgeable in generalities or the working of a nation, and those whose lives are economically subsidized by the people voluntarily forfeit the franchise. Those who are oblivious to anything slightly removed from their immediate day to day lives will cast their vote for those who slander the productive and reward the disinterested. The present Democracy applies very few standards to America’s voting pool. As in anything else, it’s the quality not the quantity that’s important. An illiterate and uninformed voting pool is dangerous to a Nation.

Incredibly, nearly every politician, teacher, journalist and citizen believes that our Founders created a Democracy. The Founders knew full well the differences between a Republic and a Democracy and they repeatedly and emphatically state that they had founded a Republic. The Constitution, not once mentions the word “Democracy”.

In addition, nowhere within the body of The Constitution nor the original 10 Amendments can you find “The Right to Vote”. The 15^th, 19^th, 24^th and the 26^th Amendments state that you can not be denied your right to vote due to race, sex, religion etc. The only problem is you can not lose what you never had in the first place. Those Amendments should read as you can not be denied “participation or designation as a qualified voter due to race, sex, religion, etc” That would be more aligned with the original intent of Jefferson, et al.

Article IV Section 4, of the Constitution “guarantees to every state in this union a Republican form of government”. This is the only mention regarding the form of government established in the entire document. That statement made it clear. There was no need for further discussion. However, for those who want to argue that the statement is “vague” I suggest reading the personal writings of the authors as they leave no question as to their intent. This is true for many other sections defined as “controversial to the intent”. The Constitution is not as vague as some members of government want the general population to believe. There are many resources on-line or in your local libraries to educate yourselves.

Madison warned us of the dangers of democracies with these words,

“Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths…”,

The historical lifespan of a Democracy is around 200 years. It has been approximately 140 years since Lincoln drove the Republic’s final coffin nail and established (under immoral and unconstitutional methods) the Democracy we live in now.

“Democracy is indispensable to socialism.”
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin“Democracy is the road to Socialism.”
- Karl Marx“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
- H.L. Mencken

“A wise man will not leave the Right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.”

-Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Previous to the 1930’s our military training manuals used to contain the correct definitions of Democracy and Republic. Franklin D. Roosevelt in conjunction with the installment of his socialist programs had them removed from circulation, confiscated from servicemen and destroyed. The manuals which followed make no mention of The Republic and have altered the meaning of Democracy. The following comes from Training Manual No. 2000-25 published by the War Department, November 30, 1928.

DEMOCRACY:

• A government of the masses.
  
• Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of “direct” expression.
  
• Results in mobocracy.
  
• Attitude toward property is communistic–negating property rights.
  
• Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences.
  
• Results in demogogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.
  

REPUBLIC:

• Authority is derived through the election by the people of public officials best fitted to represent them.
  
• Attitude toward law is the administration of justice in accord with fixed principles and established evidence, with a strict regard to consequences.
  
• A greater number of citizens and extent of territory may be brought within its compass.
  
• Avoids the dangerous extreme of either tyranny or mobocracy.
  
• Results in statesmanship, liberty, reason, justice, contentment, and progress.
  
• Is the “preferred form” of government throughout the world.
  

On a side note, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, touted as a hero by many was not the great benefactor school children are lead to believe. About the same time as the aforementioned action FDR made private ownership of our lawful money (US Minted Gold Coins) illegal. Shortly after the people turned in their $20 gold coins, the price was increased from $20 per ounce to $35 per ounce. Almost overnight, F.D.R., the most popular president this century (elected 4 times) looted almost half of the individual wealth of the Nation, while convincing the people that it was for their own good.

Many of F.D.R.’s policies were suggested by his right hand man, Harry Hopkins, who said, “Tax and Tax, Spend and Spend, Elect and Elect, because the people are too damn dumb to know the difference”.

It is time to return to our Republican roots

There is no excuse for political illiteracy. No matter the flavor of your politics there are sources readily available. Newspapers, Network News, Public Radio, and most Cable News outlets relay a similar view to the public. Talk Radio, Many Internet Sites and one Cable News outlet express an opposing view. Exceptions are noted. The former tend to color the information with the popular opinion. The latter groups lean on original Republican views and the Constitutionality of the issue. Whatever the spin, the information is out there. These sources and those more traditional (libraries, etc) give every individual the opportunity to prepare themselves for participation in The Great Experiment. The eventuality of study in these areas, if made with the honest intention of education will lead to these basic conclusions;

• The Democratic system we have strayed into is not survivable.
  
• The Constitution (the Law) is disregarded in many situations.
  
• The present Tax system provides for the corruptions of government and society.
  
• Government regulations and subsidies are political tools and do not necessarily “Promote the General Welfare”.
  

Under a Democracy there is only the illusion of Freedom. Your personal sense of option is predicated on the opinions of the majority. Your economic freedom (property rights), personal freedom (every day choices or life changing decisions), and moral freedom (personal accountability of right and wrong) are all subject to popular attitudes.

Under a Republic there is genuineness to Freedom. Your personal sense of option is predicated on your opinion with the understanding that you may not intrude upon that of another’s. Your economic, personal and moral freedoms are subject only to local or individual attitudes.

Under a Democracy the issues of a local community or individual state are governed by the whole. The Federal Government regulates the individual.

Under a Republic it is the responsibility of the local community or individual state to govern from within. The Federal Government regulates interstate and international concerns.

Under a Democracy, every member of the government is obligated to pander to the majority.

Under a Republic, only Representatives are obliged to listen to the majority. Senators represent the state and the President the Nation (As was originally defined in the Constitution).

Under a Democracy, members of the Supreme Court bend the Constitution to their ideals. When an individual freedom is impeded upon they explain why it’s permissible due to social sentiment.

Under a Republic, members of the Supreme Court adhere to the letter of the law (Constitution). When an individual freedom is impeded upon they explain why it’s never permissible.

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