In the Colonial Era, America’s Founders were aware of two types of republics. As they later discovered, neither was suitable for the vision they held of a free people under fixed law. The two republics they most closely observed were a unitary parliamentary republic and a confederated republic.
A Unitary parliamentary republic is a single unit or state composed of a legislative or parliamentary body that is supreme over the government of the entire nation. This type of republic was just starting to emerge in Great Britain during the Colonial Era by reducing the autocratic powers of the king and forcing him to share his power with the Parliament. However, the people did not gain the advantages they had expected because the Parliament then became supreme and, to some extent, autocratic. America’s Founders had already ruled out ‘legislative supremacy’ because it generally ended in tyranny over the people.
A Confederated Republic, also known as the confederation of independent states, is a system where each state retains its independence and sovereign supremacy, but bands together with other states for mutual defense and certain other advantages. This type of republic does not have legislative supremacy, but rather ‘state supremacy.’ The founders patterned the Articles of Confederation after this type of republic and almost lost the Revolutionary War because of it.
The American Republic Emerges
Realizing that a unitary republic had significant weaknesses as well, a convention of the states was finally agreed upon in 1787 to work out the problem areas in the Articles of Confederation. The goal was to figure out how to strengthen the union between the states and at the same time retain the right of the people to self-govern. To accomplish this, they had to go through four steps as outlined in The Making of America:
- “Clearly enunciate the fundamental principle that the power to govern rests in the people. (This was done in the first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence.)
- “Although serving as delegates appointed by the state legislatures, they had to propose a government that would not become operative unless approved by the people.
- “To achieve this, they proposed to send the constitutional draft back to the Congress, and if it was approved by them, to have it submitted to the ratifying conventions elected by the people (not the legislatures) in each of the states.
- “When ratified, the Constitution would become the voice of the people (not the confederated sovereign states) and would thereby make the voice of the people the supreme law of the land.
“The Founders structured the Constitution so that the doctrines of legislative supremacy (as applied in England) and state supremacy (as applied to the Netherlands, Germany, and the American Articles of Confederation) would be replaced by the doctrine of ‘constitutional supremacy,’ a brand-new invention.” (The Making of America, pp. 167, 175)
During the ratifying conventions, Madison offered a concise definition of a republic:
“We may define a republic to be … a government which derives all its powers directly or indirectly from the great body of the people, and is administered by persons holding their offices during pleasure for a limited period, or during good behavior. It is essential to such a government that it be derived from the great body of the society, not from an inconsiderable proportion or a favored class of it; otherwise a handful of tyrannical nobles, exercising their oppressions by a delegation of their powers, might aspire to the rank of republicans and claim for their government the honorable title of republic.” (The 5000 Year Leap, p. 155)
Only under a Constitutional Republic do the people enjoy the full right of self-rule. The privilege of self-rule has not been had by many people throughout the entire history of the world. Americans should consider themselves an especially blessed people.
When I read this I see and I hear in my mind the rafts of sick and twisted parrots that find individual liberty distasteful and dangerous, and a federal government in a subservient station to The States equally distasteful and dangerous. What sons of hell they are.
Thank you for posting this.
For people to tout a supposed constitutional republic from its long ago past that they couldn’t even maintain seems like mind control. There’s not even a cultural environment to shape heterosexuality in regards to postulating predominant social mores, thereby rendering it defunct as a lever of power in shaping trends and policy. Further more, the corporate Christian church system governs no systems in any realms, but further propagates dullness as a default tenet of its existence (it has chosen to convey this static position as a matter of doctrines). To have aspirations of reclaiming a historical posture seems to be putting the cart before the horse. Educating the generations, teaching and instilling sound economic practices nationally rather than by a stratified means, i.e., access to curriculum as a matter of obtaining life skill sets and not relegated to socio-economic status, and having a day-to-day context in which to employ it would be requisites. In an overarching perspective, all that America does is to beg for an invasion from multiple countries, the ultimate endgame of the ongoing conquest, which for all practical purposes has already been a complete takeover.
Yep, the reader’s digest version.
The Republic is dead. The morals needed to rebuild it are missing in action.
Now the Cliff notes.
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
― Thomas Paine
The Uniparty uses Orville’s 1984 as a training manual.
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
― George Orwell, 1984
The population of America pre-electricity in the mid 1860’s was
The United States census of 1860 was the eighth census conducted in the United States starting June 1, 1860, and lasting five months. It determined the population of the United States to be 31,443,322 in 33 states and 10 organized territories. (This included slaves)
Current Population (not counting illegals)
United States of America 2023
Population: 339,996,563
Why? Electricity and diesel power for trucking-farming and so on. More FOOD more Population.
Lack of FOOD is a major trigger in serious civil unrest. When the EBT cards don’t have a loaf of bread to buy, ugliness erupts as the Song of the Land is “Daddy I’m HUNGRY”.
Even good law-abiding people will get ugly to feed their kids.
The Bosnian-Rwandan ethnic cleansing (DUE to Lack of FOOD and such) we are about to see will reduce the population to below 1860’s level due to violence and disease overshoot, LET ALONE Vaxx damages added in.
Protect your family and trusted friends. FAR more important that anything else.
BTW my take on the illegals they are importing is disposable shock troops against that “Rifle behind every blade of grass” that Admiral Yamato was worried about if Japan tried to invade.
We are heavily armed, the US Government can arms millions of disposable military age immigrants to kill us off.