What the Heck is a Republic?
I am not a Republican or a Democrat. I am a Conservative and closer to a Constitutionalist!
This piece by Steven Maikoski is what I believe in.
What the Heck is a Republic?
You are being fooled. Fooled by the media, fooled by most of the politicians and fooled by many of the educators. Their constant drone tells us that we are a Democracy, but we are not a Democracy of any kind. We are a Republic. The difference is distinct and very important to all of us, all the Democrats, all the Republicans and all the teenagers and all the children.
A Democracy is a form of government that is designed and managed by the majority. Political philosophers have identified its weakness and dangers over the last 2,000 years, it is a government that is bound to fail.
The men who wrote our Constitution took a great effort to keep us away from a democracy; if you study the journals of the convention, you will find several times that they purposefully designed against our being a democracy.
A democracy is dangerous for any nation because it gives as much power to the poor as it does to the rich. The poor have always outnumbered the rich, so the poor eventually use their numbers to take the homes, money and assets from the rich and the society eventually collapses. This isn’t opinion, it is recorded by history.
The “father of the Constitution,” James Madison, addressed the problems of democracy, which he called governments of the popular form, in Federalist #10, which may be the most important of all the Federalist papers written. I’ll cite a little of it here:
“Hence it is that such 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.”
Our Constitutional Republic is different. We have a foundation of government set by our Constitution. All laws created by the government must be in consonance with its constitutional design. The Constitution is purposefully difficult to change, because an amendment requires the approval of two-thirds vote of both the Senate and House of Representatives, plus the ratification of three-fourths of the state legislatures to succeed.
The philosophy of our Constitution was to bind the states together in a very limited measure, with the federal government having little control over the internal operations of each state, but it would represent them in a national scope and international affairs.
Within our original Constitution we do find an area of popular input: the House of Representatives. Its members are elected to short, two-year terms to reflect the popular pressures of the people. But the Senate was far different in its design. Its members were originally appointed by the State Legislatures, so the States officially had influence in the legislative and the appointment processes of the Federal Government. (I have long maintained that the state-appointed senators were the guardians of the Tenth Amendment) But those senators disappeared when the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913, which changed the senators to ones who were elected by a popular vote.
Now we have political party senators instead of state-appointed senators.
That change set some forces in motion which took a while before they gained enough power to vandalize our republic. All presidential appointments, all nominations for the judiciary, all treaties and all legislation must receive Senate approval. With the new amendment, party politics had become more important than our Constitution. Because of this, we now have SCOTUS justices who ignore the Tenth Amendment, despite their swearing an oath to “preserve, protect and defend” our Constitution.
The 17th Amendment was a strong hit against our republican form of government.
But there is still one substantial element left in our Republican form of government: The Electoral College. That system was designed to have our States decide the president, not the popular vote. Again, this was to avoid the power of the mob. But the leftist masses have been eroding that foundation as well.
If we lose the Electoral College, it will empower the SWAMP, which is composed of the current government bureaus across the nation, the politicians, attorneys, educators and other “services” that have prospered with the incredible growth of our government, to become more powerful.
When doing the research for my book (“The Real Constitution and its real enemies” - available on Amazon) I found a quote by Richard Hofstadter that best describes the designs of the men who wrote our Constitution:
" The men who drew up the Constitution in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 had a vivid Calvinistic sense of human evil and damnation and believed with Hobbes that men are selfish and contentious. They [the delegates] were men of affairs, merchants, lawyers, planter-businessmen, speculators, investors. Having seen human nature on display in the marketplace, the courtroom, the legislative chamber, and in every secret path and alleyway where wealth and power are courted, they felt they knew it in all its frailty. To them a human being was an atom of self-interest. They did not believe in man, but they did believe in the power of a good political Constitution to guide him.”
So that brings us to the bottom line: the Founding Fathers designed a republic that makes it difficult to change and difficult for corruption to take hold. But, as their government takes on more features of a democracy and submits itself to the power by the mob, it encourages change and encourages corruption.
Now you can understand why their political faction pushes for a democracy and how the politicians and their partners in big government become wealthy as they work us into that system. We must stop that push to a democracy if our nation is to survive.
Steven Maikoski
In God We Trust!!
“Political correctness cripples' discourse, creates ugly language and is generally stupid.”
? George Carlin
I am not a Republican or a Democrat. I am a Conservative and closer to a Constitutionalist!
This piece by Steven Maikoski is what I believe in.
What the Heck is a Republic?
You are being fooled. Fooled by the media, fooled by most of the politicians and fooled by many of the educators. Their constant drone tells us that we are a Democracy, but we are not a Democracy of any kind. We are a Republic. The difference is distinct and very important to all of us, all the Democrats, all the Republicans and all the teenagers and all the children.
A Democracy is a form of government that is designed and managed by the majority. Political philosophers have identified its weakness and dangers over the last 2,000 years, it is a government that is bound to fail.
The men who wrote our Constitution took a great effort to keep us away from a democracy; if you study the journals of the convention, you will find several times that they purposefully designed against our being a democracy.
A democracy is dangerous for any nation because it gives as much power to the poor as it does to the rich. The poor have always outnumbered the rich, so the poor eventually use their numbers to take the homes, money and assets from the rich and the society eventually collapses. This isn’t opinion, it is recorded by history.
The “father of the Constitution,” James Madison, addressed the problems of democracy, which he called governments of the popular form, in Federalist #10, which may be the most important of all the Federalist papers written. I’ll cite a little of it here:
“Hence it is that such 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.”
Our Constitutional Republic is different. We have a foundation of government set by our Constitution. All laws created by the government must be in consonance with its constitutional design. The Constitution is purposefully difficult to change, because an amendment requires the approval of two-thirds vote of both the Senate and House of Representatives, plus the ratification of three-fourths of the state legislatures to succeed.
The philosophy of our Constitution was to bind the states together in a very limited measure, with the federal government having little control over the internal operations of each state, but it would represent them in a national scope and international affairs.
Within our original Constitution we do find an area of popular input: the House of Representatives. Its members are elected to short, two-year terms to reflect the popular pressures of the people. But the Senate was far different in its design. Its members were originally appointed by the State Legislatures, so the States officially had influence in the legislative and the appointment processes of the Federal Government. (I have long maintained that the state-appointed senators were the guardians of the Tenth Amendment) But those senators disappeared when the 17th Amendment was ratified in 1913, which changed the senators to ones who were elected by a popular vote.
Now we have political party senators instead of state-appointed senators.
That change set some forces in motion which took a while before they gained enough power to vandalize our republic. All presidential appointments, all nominations for the judiciary, all treaties and all legislation must receive Senate approval. With the new amendment, party politics had become more important than our Constitution. Because of this, we now have SCOTUS justices who ignore the Tenth Amendment, despite their swearing an oath to “preserve, protect and defend” our Constitution.
The 17th Amendment was a strong hit against our republican form of government.
But there is still one substantial element left in our Republican form of government: The Electoral College. That system was designed to have our States decide the president, not the popular vote. Again, this was to avoid the power of the mob. But the leftist masses have been eroding that foundation as well.
If we lose the Electoral College, it will empower the SWAMP, which is composed of the current government bureaus across the nation, the politicians, attorneys, educators and other “services” that have prospered with the incredible growth of our government, to become more powerful.
When doing the research for my book (“The Real Constitution and its real enemies” - available on Amazon) I found a quote by Richard Hofstadter that best describes the designs of the men who wrote our Constitution:
" The men who drew up the Constitution in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 had a vivid Calvinistic sense of human evil and damnation and believed with Hobbes that men are selfish and contentious. They [the delegates] were men of affairs, merchants, lawyers, planter-businessmen, speculators, investors. Having seen human nature on display in the marketplace, the courtroom, the legislative chamber, and in every secret path and alleyway where wealth and power are courted, they felt they knew it in all its frailty. To them a human being was an atom of self-interest. They did not believe in man, but they did believe in the power of a good political Constitution to guide him.”
So that brings us to the bottom line: the Founding Fathers designed a republic that makes it difficult to change and difficult for corruption to take hold. But, as their government takes on more features of a democracy and submits itself to the power by the mob, it encourages change and encourages corruption.
Now you can understand why their political faction pushes for a democracy and how the politicians and their partners in big government become wealthy as they work us into that system. We must stop that push to a democracy if our nation is to survive.
Steven Maikoski
In God We Trust!!
“Political correctness cripples' discourse, creates ugly language and is generally stupid.”
? George Carlin