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We are the People
January 8th, 2010
What do the words “the people” in “(w)e the people, in order to …” mean? Who has told us precisely? Who can tell us? Has anyone, including “The Federalist” done so? [Feel free to tell me if I missed something in my readings of a book that Jefferson called the greatest work in political theory in history]. So let my try my hand at it. “THE PEOPLE” are one and only one thing as described in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. To wit: The term “the people” speaks directly to the fact that truth is a “mainstream political value.”* But as so often happens, the explanation is not yet a certain statement itself so a secondary or second level of understanding is required. The term “mainstream political value” means a value located at the true center of the political spectrum that cannot be redefined by changing times or circumstances. That is, find the “true center” of the whole political universe, a political constant, a single point of reference, itself a problem of social science**, and you have truth.
Which leaves us with yet a third level of understanding, defining or describing “the center of” “the political spectrum.” This is more easily said than done; because, while fewer and fewer people hold the ground farther and farther away from the political mainstream, experience shows that they fight harder and harder for it. “The condition upon which … liberty (rests) is eternal vigilance.” John Philpot Curran: Speech upon the Right of Election, 1790. Rest your case on behalf of “the people,” where it matters most, in “the court of public opinion,” and your life, your fortune, and your sacred honor are much more imperiled than the greater number of people tend to show real concern about until it is too late.
Historically, there has never been a solution for the fall of an empire. The people lose their way or are lead astray and a failed state, if not desolation, follows. The form of government can make it seem that destruction takes a lot longer under one form of government than another. Dynasties are known to have lasted for thousands of years. Life in a dynasty can be very difficult for large numbers of people throughout the history of a dynasty. That is worth considering when the relatively short Lifespan of republics comes up. They are known to be 200 year projects, rarely more and often less. We have two facts to go on that should motivate us to do much more to help ourselves (and this help must take the form of social science); as the Founders would have wanted. First, the Framers believed they may have figured out what was wrong with other republics. Washington warned us to “avoid foreign entanglements” as these are also known to be a republican disease. Corruption is bad for government. Foreign corruption is worse. The former weighs upon a nation. The latter drains its life away, sapping its life blood, its self-interest. Surely an entire nation cannot stand far apart from the admonition “to thine own self be true.” People need to stop and think about this. The enemies of republican government undoubtedly use these “entanglements” to undermine republics, and sufficiently undermined, destroy them. Above all else, the Founders were political scientists. Why then have we abandoned the social science they so eloquently expressed. IT MAKES NO SENSE! What is wrong with us? We can do better. The end came to others. It happened to Greece. It happened in Rome. It happened to other great empires throughout the world that were not republics. It just took longer for the state to fail. Second, the sad truth is, it is happening to us in spite of the truly great efforts of the Framers. Equally great labors have risen against us that we have thus far failed to address (necessarily, social science is our best weapon). Long in the tooth, well over 200 years old, the United States is in a general, and rapid, state of decline that has been building for a generation. A period of time that is marked by “free trade” at a loss that has seen the loses grow steadily and much greater over time. What we have that no one else had, if we choose to use it, is modern science. That means big bucks. What natural scientists get. If we place the same importance on social science that the Founding documents do the funding will be found to get busy and do what should be done to (a) make sense of our situation and (b) rise above it.
The Federalist Papers
But I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular, administrative system who...se aim will be to provide for the needs of the poor, will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will in time reduce the rich to being no more than the tenant-farmers of the poor, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, will benumb human industry and activity, and will culminate by bringing about a violent revolution in the State, when the number of those who receive alms will have become as large as those who give it, and the indigent, no longer being able to take from the impoverished rich the means of providing for his needs, will find it easier to plunder them of all their property at one stroke than to ask for their help.
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle and Dependent Class of Society?" (1835)
The Federalist Papers
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle and Dependent Class of Society?" (1835)
Have We failed The founding Father's, Is The Question ?
The
Founders did not fail, WE are failing. Before they completed the Constitution,
the Founders warned us that there might be times when We the People would be
responsible to abolish bad government, and re-institute good government. They
al...so
warned us that good government is for a moral people. In the interests of
"civility" and "political correctness", we turned a blind eye and deaf ear as a
very small but motivated segment of our society allowed our Founding principles
and virtues to be removed. The very foundation of our moral society, our Judeo/Christian beliefs have been stripped from our society and replaced with
nothing even resembling principles or virtues.
EVERY time honored tradition is being trampled, our National Anthem, our Flag, and even our Pledge of Allegiance. We are forced to expose our children, through the "education system", to all manner of deviant practices in the name of "tolerance" of "diversified beliefs" and lifestyles. As long as the majority of Americans remain apathetic, interested only in their own personal amusement or advancement, and refuse to steadfastly cling to our Founders' vision, IMHO, we do not stand one iota of a chance of turning this ship around.
http://godandcountry.org/
If We the People REALLY desire change, then the time honored traditions of "GOD and Country" should become the battle cry against those who have brought us to this. Without fire in the belly for GOD and America as the Founders' envisioned her, then it is We the People who have failed.
EVERY time honored tradition is being trampled, our National Anthem, our Flag, and even our Pledge of Allegiance. We are forced to expose our children, through the "education system", to all manner of deviant practices in the name of "tolerance" of "diversified beliefs" and lifestyles. As long as the majority of Americans remain apathetic, interested only in their own personal amusement or advancement, and refuse to steadfastly cling to our Founders' vision, IMHO, we do not stand one iota of a chance of turning this ship around.
http://godandcountry.org/
If We the People REALLY desire change, then the time honored traditions of "GOD and Country" should become the battle cry against those who have brought us to this. Without fire in the belly for GOD and America as the Founders' envisioned her, then it is We the People who have failed.
TO DEFEND AND PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION
TO DEFEND AND PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION
We all know that every person who is elected to fill a federal office, every member of the military, every federal judge, and every federal bureaucrat take an oath to defend and protect the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic. We all know that the pretender in the White House has not lived up to that oath. Most of the members of Congress have abrogated their oath. One need only look at and listen to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to know that he not only considers his oath null and void but also owes no loyalty to the troops under him. We also know that the faithfulness to the Constitution of the Supreme Court hangs by a thread. As for all of the other Federal bureaucrats and appointees don't even think about raising the question of loyalty to their oath and the Constitution. All this being said, it begs the question how do we the people cause this oath and faithfulness to the Constitution to be enforced when the enemy is a domestic enemy? And, I don't mean this to be a rhetorical question. I would really like to know if there is an answer. I have nothing but admiration and respect for the founding fathers but it seems to me that this is one area where they failed.
The Founders did not fail, WE are failing. Before they completed the Constitution, the Founders warned us that there might be times when We the People would be responsible to abolish bad government, and re-institute good government. They al...so warned us that good government is for a moral people. In the interests of "civility" and "political correctness", we turned a blind eye and deaf ear as a very small but motivated segment of our society allowed our Founding principles and virtues to be removed. The very foundation of our moral society, our Judeo/Christian beliefs have been stripped from our society and replaced with nothing even resembling principles or virtues.
EVERY time honored tradition is being trampled, our National Anthem, our Flag, and even our Pledge of Allegiance. We are forced to expose our children, through the "education system", to all manner of deviant practices in the name of "tolerance" of "diversified beliefs" and lifestyles. As long as the majority of Americans remain apathetic, interested only in their own personal amusement or advancement, and refuse to steadfastly cling to our Founders' vision, IMHO, we do not stand one iota of a chance of turning this ship around.
If We the People REALLY desire change, then the time honored traditions of "GOD and Country" should become the battle cry against those who have brought us to this. Without fire in the belly for GOD and America as the Founders' envisioned her, then it is We the People who have failed.
EVERY time honored tradition is being trampled, our National Anthem, our Flag, and even our Pledge of Allegiance. We are forced to expose our children, through the "education system", to all manner of deviant practices in the name of "tolerance" of "diversified beliefs" and lifestyles. As long as the majority of Americans remain apathetic, interested only in their own personal amusement or advancement, and refuse to steadfastly cling to our Founders' vision, IMHO, we do not stand one iota of a chance of turning this ship around.
If We the People REALLY desire change, then the time honored traditions of "GOD and Country" should become the battle cry against those who have brought us to this. Without fire in the belly for GOD and America as the Founders' envisioned her, then it is We the People who have failed.
The Constitution
The Constitution is for the American citizen, and government is meant to be run by the people.The vision that the Framers penned so powerfully over two centuries ago in 1787.
"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories".
~ Thomas Jefferson
Short-term politics are overshadowing the long-term interests of our nation. It is up to We the People to restore the federal government to its original constitutional nature. Empowerment must be returned to the people, government must be restricted from overreaching into the American people's lives, and officials need to be reminded that their role is one of servant, not served.
The federal government is spending $250 billion per month, ($8.3 billion per day). It is collecting approximately $225 billion a month or $7.5 billion a day. I do not suppose a person needs to be able to add all those zeros to figure out that government is spending much more than it is taking in. Our national economy cannot maintain this imbalance any longer.
There must be fiscal responsibility imposed, and We the People need to begin demanding accountability. Of the $3 trillion spent annually, $2 trillion automatically goes to interest on the national debt or entitlements and only one-third is reviewed during the budget and appropriations process. This must change.Budget Failure :
The U.S. Congress sets a federal budget every year in the trillions of dollars. Few people know how much money that is, so we created a breakdown of federal spending in simple terms. Let's put the 2011 federal budget into perspective:
- U.S. Income: $2,170,000,000,000
- Federal budget: $3,820,000,000,000
- New debt: $ 1,650,000,000,000
- National debt: $14,271,000,000,000
- Recent budget cut: $ 38,500,000,000 (about 1 percent of the budget)
It helps to think about these numbers in terms that we can relate to.
Therefore, let's remove the eight zero's and pretend this is the household budget for the fictitious Jones family.
Therefore, let's remove the eight zero's and pretend this is the household budget for the fictitious Jones family.
- Total annual income for the Jones family: $21,700
- Amount of money the Jones family spent: $38,200
- Amount of new debt added to the credit card: $16,500
- Outstanding balance on the credit card: $142,710
Amount cut from the budget: $385
Government :
What an American government has no right to demand, an American individual has a right to refuse. You have a voice so let us bind together, making one strong voice, which the federal government will not be able to ignore. Some officials in the federal government are ignoring the voice of the American people and following after egotistical agendas, therefore, government has failed its people!
We cannot do this alone, but with the voices of the people from all over this Great country,like You and I !
We the People, can make a difference!
We the People, can let our voices be heard!
We the People, can stand up to the government’s infringement and say, “ENOUGH”!
"An enlightened people will never suffer what was established for their security to be perverted to an act of tyranny." ~ George Nicholas, June 4, 1788, Convention on the Ratification of the Constitution
Your Friend in Liberty
Richard Miller
Government :
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people". Additionally and equally important as returning power to the states is returning power to the people. The Declaration of Independence states, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. Government does not grant these rights but is established by men to protect these rights, which men already hold.
My Grassroots Thoughts…
Our federal government needs to return to Common Sense!What an American government has no right to demand, an American individual has a right to refuse. You have a voice so let us bind together, making one strong voice, which the federal government will not be able to ignore. Some officials in the federal government are ignoring the voice of the American people and following after egotistical agendas, therefore, government has failed its people!
We cannot do this alone, but with the voices of the people from all over this Great country,like You and I !
We the People, can make a difference!
We the People, can let our voices be heard!
We the People, can stand up to the government’s infringement and say, “ENOUGH”!
"An enlightened people will never suffer what was established for their security to be perverted to an act of tyranny." ~ George Nicholas, June 4, 1788, Convention on the Ratification of the Constitution
May we keep one another and our country in our prayers,also keep one another enlightened to what's happening in our country.
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