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Democracy
and Tyranny
By Walter E. Williams
During President Donald J.
Trump's impeachment trial, we heard a lot of talk about our rules for
governing. One frequent claim is that our nation is a democracy. If we've
become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our founders, who saw
democracy as another form of tyranny.
In fact, the word democracy
appears nowhere in our nation's two most fundamental documents, the Declaration
of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. The founders laid the ground rules
for a republic as written in the Constitution's Article IV, Section 4, which
guarantees "to every State in this Union a Republican Form of
Government."
John Adams captured the
essence of the difference between a democracy and republic when he said,
"You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments; rights that cannot
be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great
Legislator of the Universe."
Contrast the framers'
vision of a republic with that of a democracy. In a democracy, the majority
rules either directly or through its elected representatives. As in a monarchy,
the law is whatever the government determines it to be. Laws do not represent
reason. They represent power. The restraint is upon the individual instead of
the government. Unlike that envisioned under a republican form of government,
rights are seen as privileges and permissions that are granted by government
and can be rescinded by government.
Here are a few quotations
that demonstrate the contempt that our founders held for a democracy. James
Madison, in Federalist Paper No. 10, wrote that in a pure democracy,
"there is nothing to check the inducement to sacrifice the weaker party or
the obnoxious individual."
At the 1787 Constitutional
Convention, Edmund Randolph said that "in tracing these evils to their
origin every man had found it in the turbulence and follies of democracy."
Alexander Hamilton agreed, saying: "We are now forming a republican
government. (Liberty) is found not in "the extremes of democracy but in
moderate governments. ... If we incline too much to democracy, we shall soon
shoot into a monarchy."
John Adams reminded us:
"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and
murders itself. There was never a democracy yet that did not commit
suicide." John Marshall, the highly respected fourth chief justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court observed, "Between a balanced republic and a democracy,
the difference is like that between order and chaos." Thomas Paine said,
"A Democracy is the vilest form of Government there is."
The framers gave us a Constitution
replete with undemocratic mechanisms. One constitutional provision that has
come in for recent criticism is the Electoral College. In their wisdom, the
framers gave us the Electoral College as a means of deciding presidential
elections. That means heavily populated states can't run roughshod over small,
less-populated states.
Were we to choose the
president and vice president under a popular vote, the outcome of presidential
races would always be decided by a few highly populated states, namely California,
Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois and Pennsylvania, which contain 134.3
million people, or 41% of our population. Presidential candidates could safely
ignore the interests of the citizens of Wyoming, Alaska, Vermont, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Montana and Delaware. Why? They have only 5.58 million Americans,
or 1.7% of the U.S. population. We would no longer be a government "of the
people." Instead, our government would be put in power by and accountable
to the leaders and citizens of a few highly populated states. It would be the
kind of tyranny the framers feared.
It's Congress that poses
the greatest threat to our liberties. The framers' distrust is seen in the
negative language of our Bill of Rights such as: Congress "shall not
abridge, infringe, deny, disparage, and shall not be violated, nor be
denied." When we die and if at our next destination we see anything like a
Bill of Rights, we know that we're in hell because a Bill of Rights in heaven
would suggest that God couldn't be trusted.
Walter E. Williams is a
professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about
Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and
cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate webpage at www.creators.com.
SIDEBAR:
“Unrestricted Warfare” the Chinese strategy to
counter U.S. power- (translated by CIA ) lists
Financial Warfare as a top strategy
to achieve their 21st Century agenda of replacing the USA as top dog
in the world. Aided by DC swamp rats & Biden, it’s a done deal.
This could be the last presidential
election ever in the United States.
No matter who is declared the
winner, very few will see the process or either candidate as legitimate.
That’s great from our agorist point of
view, but hatred from both indoctrinated sides assures that conflict will
escalate.
And it could lead to political violence
(civil war).
Frankly, I think we’ll see a “mostly
peaceful” cold civil war.
Here’s what I think will unfold
over the next days, months and years:
As expected, the media and a few
Democrat-run swing states declared Biden the winner.
Trump will fight the legitimacy of the
votes in court.
Some voter fraud will be found and Trump
will win some court battles.
Perhaps winning outright in the courts.
The media will ignore or downplay any
revelation of voter fraud and continue to insist that Biden is the
democratically elected president.
Everything hinges on Trump’s
move after that.
Trump may refuse to leave, cementing him as
the tyrant dictator that they all thought he was in the first place. This move
could trigger a violent coup from deep state actors loyal to Biden (aka
establishment warhawks) including factions in the military.
And perhaps we’ll see an equally violent
defense of Trump from others in the government. Some predict that the court
rulings will be accepted, much as they were in 2000 where Gore won the popular
vote but lost court certification of Florida to Bush.
If Trump remains president because of the
courts, it would probably result in more rioting and looting from the extreme
left and maybe secession of some states.
The alternative result is that Trump
recognizes that he lost the narrative in the game of thrones.
He concedes gracefully to give his
offspring a chance to redeem the Trump name in future elections.
Although he hates losing, he may like his
name living in glory more.
The biggest unknown is what
Trump supporters will do if Biden is installed under these circumstances.
They are not going away.
In fact, they’re likely to be more rageful.
Will they protest? Will they get violent?
Will they seek secession of red states? Or will they just regroup and organize
for the next election?
Biden supporters are already
openly gloating and making lists of conservatives that they want to banish from
polite society.
Most Trump supporters that I have spoken to
say they will just take the loss on the chin and get back to their normal
lives.
But judging by the left’s response above,
they may not be allowed to.
If cancel-culture for anyone associated with
“Trumpism” persists, I anticipate that true “far-right” extremism will
eventually emerge.
The hyper division of political ideology
and system of Federalism (states rights) in America is fertile ground for a
civil war.
In fact, I’d argue that we are
already in a cold civil war.
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2 comments:
We must all Resolve to Resist he Marxist socialist cloud falling across our nation!
This covid crap was done on purpose as you suggested [by China]. EVENT 201, a Bill Gate's practice scenario in 2019 meant to adress a pandemic showed instead, how corrupt globalists plan to crush America & create their vision of a New World Order-get the masses to blindly give up their rights via lockdowns...a very Orwellian scheme.
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