Quotes abound by William T. Newton Much has been said and will continue to be said about “reaching across the aisle” or simply going along to get along in politics. I see it differently. When we witness acts traitorous to our Republic it is the duty of every citizen to avoid the same taint by standing up to it and force it out into the light of public consciousness. Can we rest easy when the local political hack Haven Shoemaker casts aspersions upon Robin Frazier, whose most noted act was to confirm her faith in God? In a slight reversal of allegories I offer this: Je Suis Carroll County. (I am Carroll County) Today’s discourse has been aroused because of an occurrence in some local politics which speaks in a broader sense about how pundits wish our representatives to act by assuming that the requirement exists to condescend to prevailing powers of government, terrorists or even the whims of the misdirected electorate . Our human creation shares a common parallel and bond with our creation of government and survival is at that foundation. As a Republic it is important to understand that when Article IV of the United States Constitution was adopted that it guarantee[d] to every State in this Union a Republican form of Government and you can be assured that our Framers being classically educated where guided by that principle and a definition which finds it’s basis in that period; and not any modern corrupted characterization. It was then officially established that States of the United States are required, like the federal government, to be republican in form, with final authority resting with the people – not as a whole but individually. This was required because the states were intended to create and enforce most domestic laws, with the exception of areas delegated to the federal government and prohibited to the states. (Read your Amendments)! The founding fathers of our country intended most domestic laws to be handled by the states. Requiring the states to be a republic in form was seen as protecting the citizens individual rights and preventing a state from becoming a dictatorship or monarchy, and reflected unwillingness on the part of the original 13 states (all independent republics) to unite with other states that were not republics. Additionally, this requirement ensured that only other republics could join the union. In this concurring example of these United States, the original 13 British colonies became independent states after the American Revolution, each having a republican form of government. These independent states initially formed a loose confederation called the United States and then later formed the existing United States by ratifying the U.S. Constitution, creating a union of sovereign states with a federal government also being a republic. Any state joining the union later was also required to be a republic. Therefore do not hesitate to accept it when I say ‘today, we are all Carroll County’ – Maryland; as it has come to past that the people have gone astray as a result of their failure to comprehend and defend that union or relationship between them as individuals and their representatives in government and how that relates to our Creator. Who but Madison could best define it? 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. James Madison, Federalist No. 10, (1787). Most everybody knows the story when just after the completion and signing of the Constitution, in reply to a womans inquiry as to the type of government the Founders had created, Benjamin Franklin said, A Republic, if you can keep it. But as I have suggested, not only have we failed to keep it, most dont even know what it is. A Republic finds its creation as a representative government ruled by law and underscored by the acceptance of a power greater than man as the grantor of all natural immutable rights, above all kings or earthly rulers (in our country’s case, the Constitution is our canon of law). A democracy is direct government ruled by the majority (mob rule). A Republic recognizes the inalienable rights of individuals while democracies are only concerned with group wants or needs. We constantly are now besieged by examples of a “democracy” and mob rule. In fact, many incorrectly refer to our government AS a democracy! Those inalienable rights envisaged in a Republic are derived directly from God. We all lose when that ‘majority’, that ‘mob’ counts in its numbers as those elected to be the representatives of the people and when they take their authority by straying from those tenets as prescribed by our country’s oath with the support of an ignorant majority. The branded non-believing multitude is herded for the benefit of this nihilist class to safeguard their own permanence as they see themselves as supreme. There are five references to God in the Declaration of (our) Independence alone and among them, this: We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown.... Quotes abound but the document was signed by 56 people who were all completely and solemnly in agreement with its contents with their acceptance of the ‘Supreme Judge’. This certainly does not represent a majority of people living at that time and affected by this decision to ‘release the ties’ that bound them to a tyrant……but all who came after accepted the contract and the guarantees and protections (and responsibility) required of them…..or they were free to seek their futures elsewhere. A person’s allegiance to our Republic or their acknowledgement of the Creator is not predicated on the acceptance by others but it is required to advantage them of its offering. Sovereignty is not a group activity and requires no vote or special election or appointment. Differences of opinion and disagreements are healthy in a Republic not so much because it might change the meaning of it, as it cannot, but because it promotes debate which strengthens the finding of its true definition. There is no crime committed by any act which defends the Republic and the Constitution. The crime is committed when it is not defended. Quotes abound and many more yet enrolled but none will replace our understanding of our creation as human beings when acknowledged and by consenting to be governed with that understanding until this Republic is dissolved. They were postulated in the Declaration of Independence as the foundation for man’s existence upon which government is rightfully built, and therefore which government must accommodate. “We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness”. Once again the Creator gets the nod! And the same man who atheists constantly attempt to paint as godless, Jefferson supported this understanding so severely that he said, ”There is not in the British Empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to such a connection on such terms as the British Parliament purpose; and in this, I think I speak the sentiments of America”. He said this not as a majority but as a sovereign individual. So when a public servant elected by an ill-informed populace grand-stands and attempts to discredit any America citizen who holds firm in their conviction that God’s hand guides our Republic, it is that servant who deserves scorn and from whom liberation must be attained not the one devoted to their faith in the Almighty. It is the duty of each of us within our own dispositions to incite ridicule and renounce the insult to God and this Republic.
Posted on: Sun, 11 Jan 2015 19:08:55 +0000
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