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| -Land of the Free |
| How The American Republic Was Lost |
| 2023-12-05 |
| [American Thinker] "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." —Patrick Henry Periodically, the world produces a demonic leader who challenges the legitimacy of established order with force or an ideologue who does the same with utopian ideas. Nevertheless, America’s Founders refused to prevent those people from pursuing political office within the bounds of legality. Instead, with their foresight, they crafted the Constitution not to prevent those individuals’ rise to power but to safeguard against their destructive impulses via constitutional restraints. Unbeknownst to many, though, Wilsonian progressives broke one of those restraints in 1913, mortally wounding the American experiment. When the Founders set out to keep tyranny from infecting the federal government, two of the most important and interrelated safeguards were the separation of powers and federalism. Because so many Americans are not fully acquainted with their country’s history, we must revisit the original provisions of the United States Constitution, which laid the foundation for this great country. The U.S. Constitution emanated from the Great Compromise of 1787. At that time, the United States was a union of independent states trading some of their independence for the common defense, collective security, and general welfare. To preempt usurpation of power, the federal government’s authority was split between three branches of equal weight. Although the Founders did not explicitly articulate in the Constitution itself what they were doing, the overriding impetus was to contain the Executive branch because its control over the armed forces and government bureaucracy meant it had the greatest ability to challenge the other branches of government to alter the established pattern of constitutional authority. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #6 They had a choice - a republic or a world power. In 1948 they chose the latter. The Constitution was never designed to accommodate the latter. You are regrettably correct. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2023-12-05 17:26 |
| #5 money and "benefits" from the public coffers. and private pockets. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2023-12-05 14:15 |
| #4 It was lost when people figured out voting for certain people would get them money and "benefits" from the public coffers. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2023-12-05 13:14 |
| #3 They had a choice - a republic or a world power. In 1948 they chose the latter. The Constitution was never designed to accommodate the latter. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2023-12-05 07:00 |
| #2 Well the man told you "A Republic if we can keep it." |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2023-12-05 04:51 |
| #1 What the Left Did to Our Country September 4, 2023 Victor Davis Hanson |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2023-12-05 03:37 |