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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Looking Into the Future
Albeit indirectly…..
Ya gotta LOVE it….
THE YEAR was 1787. The Constitutional Convention had just wrapped up in Philadelphia. Benjamin Franklin, one of the delegates, was leaving the hall when he was asked, famously, “Sir, what kind of government have you given us?” To which the wizened Franklin replied, “A republic, if you can keep it.”—Editorial in Pueblo Chieftain
Republics of the representative form are the very best we’ve experienced in all of history. All the others, including the democracies, tend to fail for one reason or another.
The article goes on to say….
Mr. Franklin knew that the few true republics in history had their day, then sank from inattention to their core values. He was telling his interlocutor it was imperative that the citizenry be responsible to keep the new republic.—Editorial in Pueblo Chieftain
Of late….actually over the last one hundred years, we’ve been rather ‘inattentive’.
Examples of this being the 17th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which mandated the popular election of Senators to the US Congress. Therein a huge break in the voices and powers of the states was broken.
More recently, the Supreme Court rulings of Baker v. Carr (1962) and Reynolds v. Simms (1964) destroyed the balance of legislative and judicial power at the state level that we enjoy at the federal level. How so? By making the state senate nothing more than an overpaid version of the state house of representatives.
As a result of these actions, the people of the rural regions have much less authority in political activities as they had before those decisions.
The challenge for those of US who live outside of the Denver metropolitan area, which holds 17 of the 35 seats in the Colorado State Senate, is how to reverse this slide towards ‘true democracy’.
Why is that important? Well, if you study history, as many military officers do, you can see this trend. And if you read the writings of the Founding Fathers, you understand the truth of THIS statement….
Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.—John Adams
I think the editorial in today’s Pueblo Chieftain speaks more than they realized.
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