I CONTINUE TO EMPHASIZE THE ESSENCE OF TRUE FEDERALISM IN NIGERIA. THIS FEW QUOTES FROM THE COLLECTION OF AGITATIONS THAT LED TO TRUE FEDERALISM IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - (THE ROOT OF DEMOCRACY WE SEEM TO EMULATE) - SHOULD BE IMBIBED AND INCULCATED INTO THE ARGUMENT-YIELDING POSITIONS OF ALL DELEGATES NOW PRESENT IN THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE HOLDING@NATIONAL JUDICIAL INSTITUTE, ABUJA. I THEREFORE RECOMMEND - American Democracy: A Documentary Record, Volume 1: 1620 - 1865, Edited By J. Rogers Hollingsworth & Bell L. Wiley, Copyright 1961 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. ... The fears and hopes which Adams expressed for many years finally became national fears and hopes. Without the work of propagandists such as Adams, America would probably not have declared independence in 1776 ... He says that they who lie under oppression deserve what they suffer and a great deal more, and he bids them perish with their oppressions. The truth is, all might be free, if they valued freedom and defended it as they ought. is it possible that millions could be enslaved by a few, which is a notorious fact, if all possessed the independent spirit of Brutus, who, to his immortal honor, expelled the proud tyrant of Rome and his royal and rebellious race? ... It behooves us, however, to awake, and advert to the danger we are in. ... (now - Boko Haram) ... Our enemies would fain have us lie down on the bed of sloth and security, and persuade ourselves that there is no danger. They are daily administering the opiate with multiplied arts and delusions, an I am sorry to observe... But is there no danger when the very foundations of our civil Constitution tremble? ... _pages 74-76 -Sam Adams on Liberty - American Democracy ...SECTION 1. That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a State of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety... SEC. 3. The government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and that any government shall be found inadequate or contrary to these purposes, a majority of the community hath an indubitable, inalienable, and indefeasible right to reform, alter, or abolish it, in such manner as shall be judged most conducive to the public weal ... SEC. 16. The religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christianity(/Islam) forbearance, love, and charity towards each other ... American Democracy: A Documentary Record, Volume 1: 1620 - 1865, Edited By J. Rogers Hollingsworth & Bell L. Wiley, Copyright 1961 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company. This Virginia Bill of Rights found on pages 100-101 of the American Democracy Documentary Records carefully defined an ideal state of the State which comprise heterogeneous set of people from various different backgrounds most especially on religion - SEC. 16. The religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christianity(/Islam) forbearance, love, and charity towards each other ... Here, is very applicable to the NIGERIAN context. If the Constitutional Conference presently holding at the National Judicial Institute fail; if the delegates fail their people especially those from the Niger Delta; if they go there to compromise issues with those our Colonial maters imposed on us, so inherent to the fabrics of Neocolonialism; if they fail to address the controversial issues of resource and religious unfairness, posterity will never forgive them and i swear; their descendants accursed - should they err off the truth of true Federalism in Nigeria. A Frenchman Hector St. John de Crevecoeur on an American noted on page 116; ... The next wish of this traveler will be to know whence came all these people? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race now called Americans have arisen... Thus is add Whence came these people the make up Nigeria? from Benin Empire, from Borno Empire, from the fishing settlements of the Great ijaw ethnicity, from Fulani, from Oduduwa Empire etc etc etc Amalgamated to form Nigeria by British Lord Lugard at the present day Ikot Abasi in Akwa Ibom State; why were they joined together in this Nigerian marriage? I Israel Asuquo as a Memorandum to the Confab recommends A Republican Form of Government to Nigeria as in page 143, American Democracy;... The United States shall guarantee to every state in the 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... American Democracy: A Documentary Record, Volume 1: 1620 - 1865, Edited By J. Rogers Hollingsworth & Bell L. Wiley, Copyright 1961 by Thomas Y. Crowell Company.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 08:20:23 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015