A convention is exactly how we ended up with the constitution when delegates were gathered to only consider amendments to the Articles of Confederation. The founders called that convention knowing full well they intended to do away with that form of governance. We honor them today for what they did? Patrick Henry saw full well where the new consolidated federal government would lead us.
"And here I would make this inquiry of those worthy characters who composed a part of the late federal Convention. I am sure they were fully impressed with the necessity of forming a great consolidated government, instead of a confederation. That this is a consolidated government is demonstrably clear; and the danger of such a government is, to my mind, very striking. I have the highest veneration for those gentlemen; but, sir, give me leave to demand, What right had they to say, We, the people? My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, Who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the people, instead of, We, the states? States are the characteristics and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great, consolidated, national government, of the people of all the states."
The republic is long dead as is the constitution. Those who feel we can restore the constitution and the republic are as deluded as those who feel with just the right Republican candidate we can vote our way out of this. We as a nation are just too large, too out of scale for a proper form of republican governance to work and we are too far divided to ever be able to come together and even try to make it work. Our "representative" government only represents the special interests and the political elites don't give a damn about "we the people" except in how they can manipulate us to serve their needs and the wishes of their masters.
It is time again to say "all we ask is to be let alone". It is time to truly Free North Carolina.
I read something by Lew Rockwell a while back. A fascinating article that brought up the point that there never was nor is there now anything anywhere that prohibits succession. People think that because the north won that settled it. If I remember correctly, lincoln really had no basis to use force. He was very good at persuading people is all.
ReplyDeleteCertainly and it's ridiculous to even contemplate that one can't leave an association that they have joined voluntarily.
DeleteIf you can not freely leave a place or a group have you not been kidnapped? And if you are kidnapped and no one frees you are you not a slave? What Lincoln and his henchmen (generals) did was akin to a wise guy sending his thugs to his ex-wife's new home, beating her up and forcing her to move back in with him. Now broke and broken she has no recourse but to be held as his slave until she can find a way to break free again.
ReplyDeleteIf the 34 or so Red States decided today to refuse to participate in the "union" what could the federal government do other than cut off the flow of money? The obvious retort to that would be to have the citizens of those states remit their federal taxes to the state rather than to the federal government. They (red states) can live without the blue states. Can the blue states survive without the red states? I think not.
Ready and willing here.
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