- Mr. Jefferson as a doctrinaire believer in the stark principle of "states' rights" is most incompetent and misleading. He believed in states' rights, assuredly, but he went much farther; states' rights were only an incident in his general system of political organization. He believed that the ultimate political unit, the repository and source of political authority and initiative, should be the smallest unit; not the federal unit, state unit or county unit, but the township, or, as he called it, the "ward." The township, and the township only, should determine the delegation of power upwards to the county, the state, and the federal units.The nation is too large to governed by one government, any attempt to do do so would be foolhardy is what Jefferson felt.
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- "The institutions that we except as part of the American institution were actually for the most part Roman-Continental in their origin, but they were transmitted here from Holland, not from England Among these institutions are: our system of free public~education; local self-government as originally established in the township system; our method of conveying land; almost all of our system of equity; much of our criminal code; and our method of administering estates."ALBERT JAY NOCK
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- This is a timely article and shows we are not alone in this epic battle for the future of our great Republic. Yes, Mr. Franklin we will defend and keep you and the Founders gift to the people.
Jefferson 's Solution to Today's Runaway Government:
Educate the People and Restore Original Principles
Many students of American History stand in awe at the careful wording of the Declaration of Independence which incorporates eight magnificent principles necessary for freedom to exist in America . What some do not fully understand is that Jefferson spent the rest of his life, exactly fifty years to the day, trying to defend those principles and holding the line against an increasingly powerful federal government which seemed to want to break out from the cherished confines and principles of the Declaration.
During the difficult years of the nation's second president, John Adams, the federal authorities assumed powers that alarmed many of the Founders who thought they had gone well beyond Constitutional limits, especially with the passage of the Alien and Sedition Act. This led Jefferson to help draft the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions of 1798 which were formal protests against such federal acts and declared the states' rights to not obey such unjust laws
"...we have nothing scarcely to propose."
When Thomas Jefferson became the third President of the United States in 1801, he was so determined that the federal government, by strictly following the Constitution, would work quietly in carrying out its few and defined powers that he eventually said:
"The path we have to pursue is so quiet that we have nothing scarcely to propose [to Congress]. A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness."
Imagine Congress convening in Washington and the President telling them that he doesn't know of a single new law needed to make the system run more smoothly!
But it wasn't long before succeeding administrations and Congressmen yielded to the urge to let the federal government assume more and more power than the Constitution gave them.
Jefferson's Final Declaration and Protest
After watching federal power accumulate over a period of nearly two more decades, Thomas Jefferson had to speak again. It was as though he was giving his final warning to the people. It was in 1825, less than one year before he died. He drafted a document entitled, The solemn Declaration and Protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia on the principles of the constitution of the United States and on the violations of them .
In this Declaration, Jefferson once again reiterated the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. These included:
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The people and the states have agreed to form a single federal government with respect to relations with each other and with foreign countries.
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The people and the states retain the rights to independent government in relation to domestic affairs.
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Each government has a distinct and separate set of functionaries to carry out its duties.
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The commonwealth of Virginia religiously adheres to this distribution of powers and opposes with firmness the usurpation of either set over the other.
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The greatest calamity to befall the people and the states is submission to a federal government of unlimited, usurped powers, the dissolution of the Union , and living under a government of unlimited powers.
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"We know and value too highly the blessings of our Union ," he said, so we will stay with our union, be patient and suffer much with the hope that time will bring consequences to the usurpers.
"We owe...the world at large to pursue with temper and perseverance..."
The great Jefferson then spelled out a formula that should be followed when and if the federal government degenerates from its original brilliance. He said that when things really deteriorate, rather than admit that this great experiment has failed, we must show the world that we can endure and recover. Said he:
"We owe every other sacrifice to ourselves, to our federal brethren, and to the world at large to pursue with temper and perseverance the great experiment which shall prove that man is capable of living in [a] society governing itself by laws self-imposed, and securing to its members the enjoyment of life, liberty, property, and peace;..."
Jefferson continues his counsel by telling us what our frame of mind must be as we see the union crumbling around us:
"and further, to show that even when the government of its choice shall manifest a tendency to degeneracy, we are not at once to despair , but that the will and the watchfulness of its sounder parts will reform its aberrations, recall it to original and legitimate principles, and restrain it within the rightful limits of self-government."
His four-step solution is:
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Do not have the negative spirit of despair
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Join with the nation's sounder parts
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Recall original and legitimate principles
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Restrain the runaway government within its proper limits
The Nation's Sounder Parts are Awakening
Millions of citizens across this country are alarmed at the progress of the destructive forces and are awaking to a realization of our awful situation. They do not have a spirit of despair but one of hope and faith in the eventual victory of good and right. They know that things are terribly wrong and that there must be some better answers. They see hypocrisy and deception and they are determined that there are better solutions. They are realizing the only real answer to this deteriorating dilemma is found in the words of Thomas Jefferson when he said:
"I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power."
These sounder parts are those who have the spirit of freedom and liberty. They are members of churches, political parties, tea parties, and citizens who don't belong to any organization. They are Americans concerned for their country. They are turning to The National Center for Constitutional Studies (NCCS) for help in understanding the original and legitimate principles of the Founders, for in them they hope they will finally find answers that will work.
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- Steve,good point and we must stick together and force Obama and all Ds to give specifics and then validate them - if not we must force the media to at least present our side this time. we must email all letters to the editors about bias any bias. We must email all TV and radio stations in our areas about being biased or repeating Democrat talking points like they have done the last 100 years. It is our duty as citizens to take the fight for our nation to the steps of the Media companies.Send emails to the board of directors by name - they are listed in the SEC filings and then through the investor relations department you can gain company emails for them. We must keep their feet to the fire and email your list with every misstatement the Democrats make every time - every paper every TV and ever Radio station do not forget NPR and PBS. give them no quarters to seek relief from our assault.
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- I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. - Letter to H. Tompkinson , 12 July 1816 (image at Library of Congress) Thomas Jefferson
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- Letter From James Madison, To Jefferson 8 August 1791
- Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people bygradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpation's; but, on a candid examination of history, we shall find that turbulence, violence, and abuse of power, by the majority (the people) trampling on the rights of the minority (Land owners/Rich), have produced factions and commotions, which, in republics, have, more frequently than any other cause, produced despotism. If we go over the whole history of ancient and modern republics, we shall find their destruction to have generally resulted from those causes.
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American Socialists Release Names of 70 Congressional Democrats in Their Ranks
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, August 13, 2010, 4:16 PM
The Socialist Party of America announced in their October 2009 newsletter that 70 Congressional democrats currently belong to their caucus.
This admission was recently posted on Scribd.com:
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- Study the nations that have many parties in their government - which one would you like to emulate if they work better than ours - THE PROBLEM IS IN "USURPATION" of the CONSTITUTION and not in the parties. Revoke the 14th, 16th and 17th amendments and things will work quite well thank you very much.The Power would be returned to the States and then the Legislative make up of the State would be by the selection of neighbors to serve the public. how many have actually met a member of Congress, how many a Senator, how many have held a conservation with any elected official at any level?This point to the fallacy that it is the fault of the PARTIES and not the PEOPLE letting government just do as it pleases. A few million TPM raise some hell but the vast majority of the public is not paying taxes but they are watching the TV reality shows.IMO only restoring the constitution can save the Republic from Socialism and the continued march down the path to a NANNY STATE. JMHO
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