A Word from our Founding Fathers

.... After the recent election losses, conservatives have found themselves in the doldrums. But our founding fathers would have seen an even deeper concern: to the radical degree that our way of life has now become dependent on elections, we have become a nation of men, not of laws. Our very form of government has been changing over the years.

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.... If they could view our current situation in Washington, our founders would cry for awhile, and then provide us with their sober assessment: Where corruption exists, political ambition has gone unchecked; and the only realistic way to check political ambition is with rival ambition in a carefully crafted balance of powers. Their message to us would be: “Either you have disturbed the balance of powers that we gave you, or clever politicians have found ways to circumvent it, or both.” And they would urgently advise us, that ways to correct this imbalance must be found.

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.... The recent healthcare debates would have alarmed them especially. To them, the main issue would have been, not healthcare itself, but the naked power grab that was embodied in the effort. The people protested against that bill all summer – screamed bloody murder that they did not want it – yet congress shoved it down our throats anyway. Twenty-three of the states strenuously voiced their oppositions through lawsuits, and additional states were sympathetic to that effort, but the Federal government blew past them.  Through this, they have clearly shown that they are not responsive to the voice of the states nor of the people; and such an alarming conclusion, even more than the healthcare application itself, would have galvanized our founding fathers into action of the most urgent nature; yes, while time and opportunity remained, before all hope of resort was lost.

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.... This blog is dedicated to solving our federal government’s corruption problems through a series of new ‘balance of powers’ solutions that our founding fathers might have prescribed, with an eye, especially, on returning power to a coalition of the states as an effective counter-balance (see the items in the left-hand column, which each have a roll-over synopsis). Other forms of corruption must be solved by Washington internally, and in those ways the people alone can hold them accountable, and force the solutions upon them. In that regard, elections would be useful after all. (These items are addressed in the right-hand column).