Are you tired of the way our government is doing today? This book shows you the reader what you can do about the insanity going on in Washington today. It shows what the legitimate powers of the Federal government are and its bounds it is not to cross. You will read and find out you are not alone in your frustrations and how banding together things can be changed. You will read quotes from Founding Fathers that plainly show what they wanted in a government. You will read quotes from the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. You will see the difference between the Statesmen of old versus the people in government today. You will see that we were not founded as a democracy, but something much better. Voice your opinion and send Washington a message with the last pages of this book. Sign the statements and mail them to your representatives.
Enough With the Insanity
Restore the RepublicBy R. L. WomacAuthorHouse
Copyright © 2010 R. L. Womac
All right reserved.ISBN: 978-1-4520-2732-6Chapter One
Introduction to our Type of Government
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The above is the preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. If you are under 40 years old you probably have never heard of it. When I was in school we were required to memorize this important piece of our history. Now as you read on you will be given quotes from the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. A former President and one of the architects of our country and form of government, which qualifies him as knowing how they wanted our system to work, don't you think?
Now lets set some things straight right off the bat, form of government, Republican. That's right, Republican not democracy. Our teachers and government on one of our most basic things have misled a lot of people.
There are some misconceptions that a lot of people have about our country. The biggest is that we are the greatest democracy in the world. We were not founded as a democracy at all. This country was founded as a republic: remember the pledge of allegiance? " And to the republic for which it stands", is the quote. What you are going to read next is from the Constitution of The United States.
Article IV - The States Section 4 - Republican government
The United States shall guarantee to every State in this 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.
Get you a copy of the Constitution and look for yourself. What's the difference you ask? You tell me after you read what's next. The following are quotes from Thomas Jefferson. Since he was there when this country was founded I'm sure he knew what they meant when they formed this country's system of government.
"From the moment that to preserve our rights a change of government became necessary, no doubt could be entertained that a republican form was most consonant with reason, with right, with the freedom of man, and with the character and situation of our fellow citizens." -Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Virginia Legislature, 1809. ME 16:333 "The people through all the States are for republican forms, republican principles, simplicity, economy, religious and civil freedom." -Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 1800. ME 10:164 "[Our] object is to secure self-government by the republicanism of our constitution, as well as by the spirit of the people; and to nourish and perpetuate that spirit. I am not among those who fear the people. They and not the rich are our dependence for continued freedom." -Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39 The difference between a republic and a democracy can be brought out simply. Rome was a democracy with senators and an emperor. The senate could vote on things but the emperor could still basically do, as he wanted. The senators could eventually be replaced. They listened to the people and voted to present laws to the emperor. The people had representatives that really didn't answer to them. You also in a democracy have what can basically be called, mob rule. The bigger groups get what they want regardless of people's rights. In a republic you have elected representatives too. Your elected representatives answer to the people. You the citizens are the supreme power in a republic because you are telling your elected representatives what to do and what kind of laws you want. They are to work for you in your place at the seat of government. Read the following quotes; let me remind you once again that this man wrote the Declaration of Independence. He knew what kind of government they were creating. "A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns: not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods." -Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:33 "Action by the citizens in person, in affairs within their reach and competence, and in all others by representatives, chosen immediately, and removable by themselves, constitutes the essence of a republic ... All governments are more or less republican in proportion as this principle enters more or less into their composition." -Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. ME 14:490 "[To establish republican government, it is necessary to] effect a constitution in which the will of the nation shall have an organized control over the actions of its government, and its citizens a regular protection against its oppressions." -Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1816. ME 19:240 "We think experience has proved it safer for the mass of individuals composing the society to reserve to themselves personally the exercise of all rightful powers to which they are competent and to delegate those to which they are not competent to deputies named and removable for unfaithful conduct by themselves immediately." -Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. ME 14:487 "The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory; it is their will which creates or annihilates the organ which is to declare and announce it. They may do it by a single person, as an emperor of Russia (constituting his declarations evidence of their will), or by a few persons, as the aristocracy of Venice, or by a complication of councils, as in our former regal government or our present republican one. The law being law because it is the will of the nation, is not changed by their changing the organ through which they choose to announce their future will; no more than the acts I have done by one attorney lose their obligation by my changing or discontinuing that attorney." -Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 1799. ME 10:126 I do believe with confidence I have shown you the reader that our government was not formed as a Democracy. To some it may have come as a shock but we must now press on to the next chapter. Now can you tell the difference between a republic and mob rule democracy? In a republic the people and not their elected representatives are the supreme power. Self government is what we wanted and got originally, my question to you the reader is this; what happened to make this country the way it is now?
Chapter Two
The Bill of Rights
If the shock of chapter one was bad wait till you read this chapter. The words in this chapter would send most senators and congressmen into a fit.
You the American citizen have rights not touchable by Congress or the Senate or even the President. You the citizen have rights that are guaranteed and were heavily fought for. Look at the next set of quotes.
"If we are made in some degree for others, yet in a greater are we made for ourselves. It were contrary to feeling and indeed ridiculous to suppose that a man had less rights in himself than one of his neighbors, or all of them put together. This would be slavery, and not that liberty which the bill of rights has made inviolable, and for the preservation of which our government has been charged." -Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1782. ME 4:196, Papers 6:185 "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular; and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inferences." -Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787. ME 6:388, Papers 12:440 "The general voice from north to south... calls for a bill of rights. It seems pretty generally understood that this should go to juries, habeas corpus, standing armies, printing, religion and monopolies. I conceive there may be difficulty in finding general modifications of these suited to the habits of all the States. But if such cannot be found, then it is better to establish trials by jury, the right of habeas corpus, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion, in all cases, and to abolish standing armies in time of peace, and monopolies in all cases, than not to do it in any. The few cases wherein these things may do evil cannot be weighed against the multitude wherein the want of them will do evil." -Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME 7:96 "I hope, therefore, a bill of rights will be formed to guard the people against the federal government as they are already guarded against their State governments, in most instances." -Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1788. ME 7:98 "[The first step is] to concur in a declaration of rights, at least, so that the nation may be acknowledged to have some fundamental rights not alterable by their ordinary legislature, and that this may form a ground work for future improvements." -Thomas Jefferson to John Jay, 1788.
Now I know that there are a lot of quotes here but it is for a good reason. You hear all these politicians stating they are acting as the Founding Fathers would, baloney. Today Thomas Jefferson and the others would be branded as domestic terrorists and thrown in Gitmo. Look at the dates on the quotes and look at the time frame. Your Bill of rights was fought for heavily and argued about for a while. The above quote shows what they wanted in a government. Rights that cannot be changed or messed with at all. You are guaranteed these rights, every American citizen.
As you noticed there was a lot of work put into giving every American citizen the Bill of Rights. Now I want you the reader to read them for yourself.
Here are your unchangeable rights.
Amendment 1 - Freedom of Religion, Press, Expression. Ratified 12/15/1791
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Amendment 2 - Right to Bear Arms. Ratified 12/15/1791.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Amendment 3 - Quartering of Soldiers. Ratified 12/15/1791
No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings. Ratified 12/15/1791.
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
Amendment 6 - Right to Speedy Trial, Confrontation of Witnesses. Ratified 12/15/1791.
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence.
Amendment 7 - Trial by Jury in Civil Cases. Ratified 12/15/1791.
In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
Amendment 8 - Cruel and Unusual Punishment. Ratified 12/15/1791.
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Now I don't know about you but to me these are pretty self-explanatory. Doesn't it seem that our elected officials need a little refresher course where these are concerned?
Now after reading all of this are you sure our government today is the same one described in the quotes you read? I want you the reader to see in the words of one of the Founders of this country what they intended when they formed the country. An American citizen has a unique birthright that no other person has ever had. The country and government were to work hand in hand. You were to be a free man or woman with rights given that no other country had ever given its people. The American people have 2 choices.
1. Do nothing and let things continue as they are. 2. Make them stop and change this country back to the way it was. The new American Revolution will be to reclaim what was lost, not for something new.
How many of the rights that were given in the Constitution are being chipped away at or being thrown out the window by the people in Washington today? Now I dare say that the only people to blame for this being done are the American people themselves. How dare you say that, you might ask. I say it because of this. "The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may commence persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right on a legal basis is while our rulers are honest and ourselves united. From the conclusion of [their] war [for independence, a nation begins] going down hill. It will not then be necessary to resort every moment to the people for support. They will be forgotten, therefore, and their rights disregarded. They will forget themselves but in the sole faculty of making money, and will never think of uniting to effect a due respect for their rights. The shackles, therefore, which shall not be knocked off at the conclusion of [that] war will remain on [them] long, will be made heavier and heavier, till [their] rights shall revive or expire in a convulsion." -Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XVII, 1782. (*) ME 2:225
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