Our government wasn’t set up to be a true democracy, and nor should it ever become one. Many of the founders and their principles lie in their classical educations. They studied both the fall of Athenian democracy, as well at the fall of the Roman republic due to the popular whims, and the tyranny of the people. Thus is why the founders created a limited government that is a republic governed by a constitution. Now if those who profess such beliefs exhaust every legislative avenue to return their government to what they believe to be the true image of its foundation then they are left but two choices; either to accept the chains of oppression or liberate themselves from it. After the 2012 election, Constitutional conservatives have learned we have become dissidents. The greatest explanation of how the government is suppose to delegate it’s powers to protect the rights of each individual citizen was most damaged by the South’s war of secession was and is James Madison’s essay N0. 51 in The Federalist, Madison explains the proper checks and balances within the federal government, and how both federal and state sovereignty creates a double security to protect the people’s rights: “In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.” “Society itself will be broken into so many parts, interest, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from the interested combinations of the majority.”
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 10:16:20 +0000
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