The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened), against domestic Violence.—United States Constitution, Article IV, Section. 4
Our government was founded as a Republic. To guide our new Republic, the founding fathers wrote a Constitution. To discover what that means, we must, of course, define what a Republic is. The Merriam-Webster 11th Collegiate dictionary defines it as:
1 a (1) : a government having a chief of state who is not a monarch and who in modern times is usually a president (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government b (1) : a government in which supreme power resides in a body of citizens entitled to vote and is exercised by elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law (2) : a political unit (as a nation) having such a form of government c : a usually specified republican government of a political unit
We are interested, for this discussion, in definitions a(1) and b(1). Both concepts of this definition actually developed right here in the United States over 200 years ago. It was George Washington who came up with the idea of a “president” over calls for him to be named King. The idea was that the president would preside over the affairs of state. That was never thought of before.
Rome was a Republic with the Emperor deciding the rules and a puppet Senate to justify his means by a vote. There were times when the Senate actually overrode the Emperor and some of those clashes became violent. Rome, however, defies the modern definition of a Republic.
The second definition refers to …elected officers and representatives responsible to them and governing according to law. What is that law? The supreme law is the Constitution of the United States of America. It is the document that the federal and all State governments are supposed to abide by. And it guarantees all States a Republican—not Democratic—form of government.1 That is where we derive the term Constitutional Republic.
There is one form of government that espouses the virtues of Democracy throughout its entire doctrine. It claims to be solely based on Democracy and urges all democratic governments to unite. You can read about that form of government in the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
Before I proceed, I should point out to the angry Democrats that I certainly do not subscribe a Republic as conceptualized by the Republican party today. After twelve years of Bush/Cheney and the Patriot Act, we can see that the Republican party is more aligned with the Facisit party of Adolf Hitler. Also, I am not refering to individuals in either party. In fact, Democrat Alan Gray of Florida has sided with Ron Paul of Texas on an effort to, at least, audit the Federal Reserve which is responsible for our entire debt system. That, however, shall wait for another article.
Certainly we can see certain democratic elements in our Republic. Every four years, for example, we have to endure months of pundit-driven sound bites of how certain people are going to “fix” our country. Yet none of them state the fix that is required. And the fix is so simple.
Return to an accurate and true reading of the Constitution.
Some may cry but it is so long! The Constitution and the Bill of Rights, with titles, is approximately 5020 words long. But it is so hard to understand. It has been noted in several Supreme Court cases—including the recent Washington D. C. v. Heller—that the Constitution was intentionally written in the language of the time void of any “legalize” so that all persons of the time reading it, or having it read to them, could understand it. As we know, the new document sparked fierce debate from those opposing it and those supporting it. The debate, compiled into the Federalist Papers and Anti-Federalist Papers, fully explains the intent of the Constitution, as well as that pitfalls in the new document. There are even further documents, such as William Rawle’s, A View of the Constitution of the United States of America which further explain constitutional law. To those reading this document on line, you have access to the biggest library in the world.
The thing that is most devastating to this country is the fact that we have moved away from the Constitution or written it off as not being “incorporated” to the States. We have moved away from Capitalism to the more dangerous, costly and freedom-depriving system of Communism. We use the more pleasant sounding term of Socialism, but it is the same thing.
The Constitution does not provide for “disaster areas” or giving pensions, such as Social Security. In the late 1800s, Davy Crockett discovered this in a chance encounter as he sought re-election. That story is told in the article, Constitutional Schooling of Davy Crockett2
The Constitution very clearly gives Congress the control of coining and valuing money.3 That power was never meant to be given to a private company of bankers.
Article 1, Section 8, Clause 12 gives Congress the power To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years. The founders were clear in the Federalist Papers that the Congress was to fund no army for more than two years. If effect, any standing army was not to last more than two years. It did not mean that Congress should sign off on any military appropriations bill every two years, as is the modern interpretation. That was so no standing army could grow to the point of being a danger to liberty.
At this point, I could roll into opinion. In fact, I did and erased the paragraphs because this article is meant to acquaint you with what a Constitutional Republic is and what it is not. It is a starting point for you to explore the concept for yourself and, hopefully, you will realize along the way that global governance is not the best plan for us.
We suggest returning to what we know best. Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
1 Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States.
2 For a PDF version to print and share with your friends and family, you can check out the “Not Yours to Give” brochure at the Constitution Party web site..
3 Article 1, Section 8, Clause 5.
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