The Historical Truth About The United States
“The farther one looks back, the
farther forward one can see” – Sir Winston Churchill
A lesson in American constitutional
history, something to read on the weekend... you'll be glad you
did.
By de Andréa
July 6, 2013
In a man on the street interview a
group of collage students were stopped, the radio interviewer introduced
herself and asked a question of a 3rd year undergrad who said he was studying to be
a teacher. The question posed to the
student of education was “when did the Revolutionary War take place”? The student thought for a moment and then
responded with a question of his own. “Wasn’t
that the war that took place in the 1940’s or somethin”? My
friend…this is why we have lost our Free
American Constitutional
Republic . What’s that?
Read on my friend…
The truth about the United States is it was never meant
to be a democracy; the founders shuddered at the very thought of it. Why…because they knew that democracies historically
always end in tyranny.
Something I want you to know, you will
never find anyone more patriotic than yours truly, and because of that I want
you to know the truth about America . The people of the founding generation did not
think of Americans as Americans at all. They did not see themselves as one people
but instead as individual citizens of the various states. More like the European Union of
today, a collection of independent sovereign States united under one flag.
Even as late as the Civil War, people
such as Robert E. Lee, who disagreed with secession by the way, and wanted a ‘united’
United States, left because his State seceded and not because he suddenly
wanted Virginia to be another country.
Another example of the feelings of many
in the founding generation was the fact that the term “We the People of the United States”
that opens the preamble to the Constitution caused such great controversy during the
ratification debate process, it was thought to be a blatant attempt to make the ‘States’ irrelevant. That is how important State sovereignty
was to the Fathers of our American
Republic .
The Constitution was meant to improve
the existing Federation of the various States as created under the Articles of
Confederation.
It was not meant to create anything new.
This was stressed over and over by the supporters of the Constitution in
the ratification debates. The Framers
voted by State, and, though some of the Framers wouldn’t even sign the
completed document, but since it was adopted by all the States it was called
unanimous. The ratification votes of the various conventions voted by state not as individuals. As provided in the original
documented Constitution, the members of the U.S. Senate were not elected by the people at large. The U.S. Senators were instead selected
by the State legislatures. The house was
designed to represent the people, and the Senate was constitutionally designed
to represent the States.
The Constitution never would have been
ratified without this statutory provision designed to protect the States from losing
their integrity as sovereign republics which had
voluntarily joined together. This was
essential, and this was generally the understood theme of the law.
So when was our social contract revised? How can a contract be
unilaterally revised? I cannot stress
enough the importance of this single historical fact. The States would not have ratified the
Constitution ‘at all’ unless they had direct access and representation in this
new central government. The fact that
their own legislators voted directly for U.S. Senators gave them that direct
representation. This is why the (Senate)
is called the State House and the (House) is called the Peoples House. The 17th Amendment for example, passed
in 1913 destroyed the sovereignty and the representation of the states. Today the states have no official direct access
to the Federal Government. This single
mistake made by ignorant men who didn’t know their history voluntarily changed
the American Constitutional Republic
for which it was designed, into the dreaded democracy that the framers so desperately
tried to avoid. As I stated earlier, historically, the beginning of democracy is
why we are headed toward despotism.
When did we agree to surrender our
liberty in exchange for security? When
did we agree to move from a voluntary federal republic to a centrally-planned
democracy? When did our freedom from
warrantless searches which we are protected from under the 4th Amendment,
morph into 360° surveillance? When and
how were the guarantees found in the Bill of Rights turned inside out and
upside down?
The scariest thing I see about all this
as I research the history of America
is not that our totalitarian “wannabes” will use any excuse and any subterfuge
to undermine limited government for the benefit of their power and their crony
capitalist’s profit. No, that doesn’t surprise
me at all this is what governments historically do and why we have constitutional
law to prevent it.
But what catches my attention is that
as I speak to more and more people about this creeping government sponsored corporatism
the majority of them say things like, “I’m glad the government is watching out for
terrorists” or “If you’re not saying or doing anything
wrong why should you care if the government listens in?” We must be made aware of the historical words of
Benjamin Franklin, in the Historical Review of Pennsylvania (1759) “They
that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety." Who was Ben Franklin? Look it up my friend!
Not only have Americans been dumbed
down to the point where the majority of college graduates need remedial
studies, especially in history, but these descendants of the pioneers have lost
sight of the American Dream. Asked, “What
is the American dream?” Most collage
grads today will recite the pabulum spooned out by the privately owned Federal
Reserve Bubble Machine, and the political hacks who gave them their power:
which is “The American Dream is to own your own house and have an green ‘Eco Friendly’
foreign made Toyota Prius in every garage.”
That is not the American Dream my friend! The American dream is a limited constitutional government,
personal liberty, and economic opportunity for all. Which is
already gone or it has become just a fraud presented like a fake rabbit in a
dog race.
At what point do unilateral changes to
a contract render it null and void? That’s
the point, there is no point. I have long
said, it will still be ‘called’ “the United States of America ”. The stars and stripes will still wave, there
will still be elections, and we will still hear that this is the freest most
prosperous nation on earth as our freedom slips away and our opportunities
shrink and we have lost the real American dream that we have long since
forgotten.
During the ratification debates it
became clear that the Constitution would not be ratified unless there was a
promise that the first order of business for the new government was going to be
to amend the newly ratified document to state some things that a majority of
people thought were missing. The promise
was made and the first ten amendments were added. Today we still call this our Bill of unalienable Rights, which now has since become our bill of government privileges. While few people can
recite all of them and some can recite a few, almost every American knows they
exist. No mater how vague, the Bill of
Rights still has a treasured place in the American heart.
Few if any know what was said in the Preamble to the Bill of Rights, which is neither mentioned nor studied today. This preamble sets out the purpose of the law
of American rights and is enlightening as a starting point for understanding
what they are, and what we are now so rapidly losing.
“THE Conventions of a number of the States, having
at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to
prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and
restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public
confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its
institution” (emphasis mine). The Bill of Rights was added in order to
prevent misconstruction, or the words of the document, or abuse of its power by
the government to be established under the Constitution. This could not be possible unless the words
of these amendments were supposed to mean what they say, not what black-robed
partisans interpret them to say.
The Bill of Rights were not written nor
adopted in their order of precedence. The
number one amendment requested by the States was set as the 10th Amendment
or the capstone Amendment; the most
ignored and abused law in the Constitution. “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.” In other words, above all, the citizens of the
various States were concerned most that the central government not run rough
shod over the States which were the home republics closest to and controlled by
the people. They feared that the central
government would become a huge Leviathan, a monster crushing dissent, and
smothering freedom. Well their greatest
fears have become a reality. Moreover, they
never heard of the IRS, the NSA, or the EPA.
They never imagined an unelected, appointed for life Supreme Court that
would cancel amendments to State constitutions that were legally adopted
according to the processes within those state constitutions. Not since they had overthrown King George had
they lived under the suffocating tyranny of a Patriot Act or rule by anti-constitutional
decree such as Obama’s presidential executive orders.
According to the amendment process in the Constitution, the States can offer
amendments to the Constitution by calling for a convention to propose such
amendments. Many people are afraid of a
convention believing that those who advocate for a limited government, personal
liberty, and economic freedom could not carry the day and the Constitution
would be altered in a negative way. So
instead we have opted for constitutional destruction in a surreptitious incremental
progressive way.
It is time to admit to ourselves that
the so-called progressives have been and are changing their so-called “Living
Document” every day in countless ways: executive orders, unconstitutional
regulations (from the EPA for example) and legislation of (the 4th Amendment
bending Patriot Act for example). We
must face the fact the dam has broken and the wolves are now guarding the hen
house. The ship has sailed and the fix
is in. We need a reset button before we
slide completely into the abyss of totalitarianism still under the name…The
United States of America. As I said the
flag will still fly, the national anthem will still play, yet the land of the
free and the home of the brave will be as Obama said, “fundamentally
transformed” into a centrally-planned,
regimented, totalitarian surveillance state.
And “We The People” ignorantly voted for it. As I stated at the beginning of this article
in the words of Sir Winston Churchill “The
farther one looks back, the farther forward one can see.” Without the knowledge of ones own history,
one cannot see ones own future; this is why we blindly travel down this road to
destruction that has been traveled so many times before.
Once the scales have fallen from our
eyes and we see that just because they call themselves liberals, people who
want to control every aspect of every one’s lives one can see they are no more
liberal than any of the other statists who have sought total control to impose
their idea of utopia on anyone at any time in any place in the past.
THE BOTTOM LINE: What we need my friend is an American Spring. What we need is Americans to act like
Americans and demand the freedom that is their God given birthright. Freedom is not just another word for nothing
left to lose. We the People who believe
in limited government, personal liberty, and economic freedom have got to unite
or we will end up joining a worldwide chorus singing, "Desperado"
a song by the Eagles, written by group members Glenn Frey and Don Henley. “And freedom, oh freedom well, that’s
just some people talkin’ your prison is walking through this world all alone.”
The centrist philosophy no longer holds
water. We must all work to influence our
States, our home republics, to reign in the runaway despotic-centered
bureaucracy machine before we are strangled in the red tape and buried in illegally
enacted regulations.
The States must prove their relevance
or the States will slip unnoticed into unread history.
Before you leave, take another look at
the words under my banner at the top of this article. You will see the surreptitious progression of
tyranny that exists in America
today…all because of the ignorance of
history, we will be deceived and we will enable our own destruction.
Thanks for listening my friend, and may God continue to
bless The Constitutional Free Republic of America – de Andréa
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