Leftists,
Nazi, Communists, ISIS, and Mideast Theocracies etc. understand that it is only possible to
oppress a nation through the use of a federal government.
The American Constitution was the
first in the world to protect the rights of individuals, minorities, and states
by limiting the power of the federal government. It was well understood from
earlier democracies that in a democracy of three persons, two persons could
create and pass laws to legally expropriate and redistribute the wealth or
labor of any third person. Thomas Jefferson to P. Dupont in 1816; "The
majority oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength,
and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundation of
society." James Madison in the
Federalist Papers, Feb 5, 1788 to the Massachusetts Convention, "but as a
just government protects all alike, it is necessary that the sober and
industrious part of the community should be defended from the rapacity and
violence of the vicious and idle. A bill
of rights, therefore, ought to set forth the purposes for which the compact is
made, and serves to secure the minority against the usurpation and tyranny of
the majority."
In fact under English colonial law
the ruling majority had already democratically classified some minority peoples
as goods to be bought, used, and sold. We pledge allegiance to a Republic
because that is what the Founding Fathers intended. The American Constitution was designed for a
Republic specifically to limit federal government power. The government is
divided into three branches of power, each completely unique with differing
election terms, checks and balances. In the Senate, small states have the same
power as populous states. These impediments to strong centralized majority
power were included in the American Constitution because every pure democracy
before America
was short lived and often ended in a bloodbath. By 1824 Thomas Jefferson
already thought the American Government was too big. He wrote to William Ludlow, "I think
myself, that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many
parasites living on the labor of the industrious." Thomas Jefferson was the founder the Democratic
Party. In 1816 he wrote (note in Tracy's Political
Economy), “To take from one, because it is thought that his own industry and
that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or
whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate
arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to every one of a
free exercise of his industry, and the fruits acquired by it."
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