What is a Constitutional Republic? A Constitutional Republic by definition is a state where officials are elected by the people to represent the People and govern by the laws set forth in the existing Constitution created by the People.
The United States is a Constitutional Republic. We are not a DEMOCRACY! Presidents, Congressman, Senators of the U.S. as well as Ambassadors for this country have been going around for years telling the world that Democracy and its many forms are the way of the future.
Our founders created a better way to enjoy the fruits of an elected form of government that does not allow the majority to just run over the rights of the minority or the individual. In a Constitutional Republic such as ours, the rights of the individual set forth in the U.S. Constitution and The Bill of Rights (Amendments I-X) are equal to those of any majority. It was written in this way to avoid the natural death that all democracies go through. There are in fact a few stages of Democracy. This is an important fact to remember as we are faced with the slow elimination of our rights over time. In the following paragraphs I will illustrate the stages that all forms of Democracy go through from outright birth until death do us part. You will see that many of these stages overlap in time. This is a natural cause and effect from beginning to end.
Stage 1. Democracies and their various forms, including our Republic, all have a natural cycle. They are born from some sort of tyrannical government. Forms of government like Despotism, Monarchies, Communism, Socialism, and Dictatorships have all spawned some form of Democracy. At some point the needs of the tyrannical government over run the people. People eventually have enough of the leadership and tear down the walls of that government in the name of freedom. The next form of government tends to be some sort of Democracy. Not always, but it is very common throughout history. Our government system was born out of the Greedy Monarchy in England and what was considered Taxation without Representation. Despots in Greece spawned democracy even thousands of years ago. Years of Communist Corruption and Tyranny led to quasi freedom in Russia and its castoff states. Examples throughout time are endless.
Stage 2. The next step in any freedom lifting government is the road from initial creation to strength in spiritual faith. From 1794 through 1860 the U.S. saw a period of strife and then expansion. This created a real need for God and spiritual faith. People did not have all of the ingenuity they would need to expand from the original 13 States all the way to the gold fields of California. Yet they did it anyway. Trust me when I say faith in God was THE integral part in this expansion. The need for the original American Dream (homesteading) was the also a key part of this expansion. It was dangerous for anyone to leave the safe confines of the east but people were brave and believed God would serve the righteous.
Stage 3. As long as government plays its roll and does not overstep its bounds, any of these forms of democracy can usually see a period of growth and prosperity that is normally well beyond any of its non-freedom counterparts. The belief in God usually gives way to courage and fortitude. These nations always rise to the top. Their maybe many troubles along the way but almost in any case that you examine, these nations were all considered great at some point in history.
Stage 4. Many people are either taught or just believe that the War Between the States or more commonly called the Civil War was about slavery. To some degree they are right. Closer to the truth though, is the fact that the laws of the day, right wrong or indifferent were the laws of the U.S. Constitution. Prior to the Thirteenth Amendment, The leadership of the Southern States and the people who had money to donate to them at the time (let's face it, without tracking of cash, there was plenty of corruption) believed that the Northern States and their leadership were trying to take away their ability to profit from slavery. This, as you can imagine to any corporation of the day (plantations etc...) was a huge problem. The north was trying to take away their ability to make large sums of profit through cheap labor all in the name of human rights. Couple this with a huge economic slowdown, the end of that prosperous period and BAM BOOM BANG, you have the Civil War! I personally believe that the human rights portion was ultimately what won the civil war. It was about true freedom not economic freedom for the north. The U.S. was a long way away on the equality trail but as always real freedom won the war! This was what I refer to as the period of Liberty. We were now free to acknowledge that we could actually change the original system of government and govern freely even by force if we the people had to.
Unknowingly this was also the actual start of the original system of government's downfall. It is the actual peak in our representative form of government. It was also the first major shove to the original U.S. Constitution. Although most of us would argue that it was a good thing to start including human rights to people of all creed, color and religion in our system of government, it was also the the first opportunity for those who opposed the freedom of a constitutional government to inject solutions of socialism into problems.
The U.S. would go through 2 more periods of strife and prosperity to become the leader of the free world. We would stand out amongst all of the countries of the time. Our second period of prosperity and the third, you could argue was due to innovation and the freedom of our citizens to invent solutions to problems. The second was from the end of the civil war to the beginning of World War I and the third was from World War I through the 1950's. We were the beacon of freedom for all others to see. Through courage, fortitude and real belief in God we had become the greatest nation the world has ever seen.
Stage 5. From the 1920's through the year 2010 we had become the country of too much stuff. (Yes even through the depression and 7 other recessions or what I call market corrections) We became greedy. We needed more. We became the country of abundance and living beyond our means, myself included. The contraction of the gold standard in 1971 most certainly drove the United State to this point. Most people would think that too much availability of money, goods and services would be good. We could afford to be charitable but when you are in the have not crowd, suddenly that abundance looks to be too much. There becomes some sort of entitlement feeling. The rich are too rich, the poor are too poor and we need to rectify this problem. Through a series of acts of legislation from the New Deal after the Great Depression to the Affordable Care Act in 2010 we have become a country of entitlement.
Stage 6. Some people believe we are in this stage. I believe that we are further down the road personally but this stage is about complacency. The majority in the U.S. now believe that the government will take care of them in tough times when they cannot do it themselves. We have a history of doing this since the 1930's. These people still have the means to rise up and take care of themselves but they do not believe so and through all of the legislation talked about in stage 5, they believe the safety net is below them and therefore they do not have to achieve to survive. So like water, they take the easiest path available. The fact that over 50% of the people that voted in the U.S. in 2012 now believe they do not have to achieve to survive is what leads me to believe we are in the next stage.
Stage 7. As mentioned in stage 6, the belief that we cannot fail and that the safety net is under us becomes more common place. People quit achieving. Innovation stops. Apathy sets in. Democracies quit achieving because the people that live in it quit advancing together all at once. We are beginning that stage. You see it in the way people talk about their candidates that they vote for. Take some of the things you have seen on television in the last 3 elections. The Obama Mortgage Lady or the Obama Phone Lady etc... (Just two examples) How about Joe the Plumber, how many of those people did we see in 2008? He was the only one that I saw. People that will challenge the socialistic changes are becoming fewer and fewer. Government provides a solution so apathy becomes the norm.
Stage 8. One could argue that we well could be here already as well. I have shown examples of apathy in common place. I do not believe that the people who voted in the last 3 elections are actually the majority. This again is why I argue that we are in stage 7. The real majority has been silenced by the enemies of our Constitutional Republic. These enemies have manifested themselves in public, slowly but surely since 1913 and have kicked it into high gear since the 1960's. They have created a belief system through the use of our public schools and use national media to indoctrinate people at a young age. If people do not rise up and take their Constitution back, dependence will be what we all have. Each and every one of us will be dependent on the Affordable Health Care Act to gain length of life. We will be dependent upon the Social Security Act to provide us the means to have shelter and eat later in life. We will be dependent upon the government to provide jobs, housing and any other necessities to survive. This is the stage of dependency. We are headed there fast and furiously but I would argue there is a small chance to pull out of this nose dive if We the People WAKE UP!
The Last Stage. One can speculate on how this stage goes. We are not there yet and there are too many variables to cover all the scenarios. Some folks believe we will have a long period of dependency before we wake up. Some including myself believe that this period may never be fully realized and that the people of this country will wake up before then. This is where most of the variables start. Some from the government’s point of view or some from the media. Some from the people who are dependent or some from the people who will not let themselves be dependent. Most people believe that faith in the government and its ability to provide for everyone will never be the reality and that something must be done before then. This is when government will try to keep its power and assert itself. There are two ways this can go. One scenario is that if the government continues on its current path to limit the rights given to us by our creator, i.e. the Freedom to Pursue Life, Liberty and Happiness as well as the amendments written into the Bill of Rights that people will rise up and create some sort of New Civil War. Others believe that the government will assert itself first and will fail. The system of monetization will fail first and then anarchy will begin with hyperinflation. Either way, if we get to this stage, the system of government we have now will change for a period of time. We then will have to determine as a people where we go from there.
Written By Harve Pettigrew
The New Constitutional Republican
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