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United states of america born in 1776 our country is the offspring of a religious-based heritage of Liberty on the law blessed with great natural resources and a pioneer people given to industry and moral discipline our nation grew to be strong prosperous and develop the finest governmental system ever devised by man America soon became known as the refuge of the world's tired hungry and poor millions left everything in the old world to start over in a land that rewarded initiative hard work and perseverance the many millions who'd come here found comfort hope and knowing that indeed there was such a bastion of freedom and opportunity a place where dreams could become reality today our nation appears wealthier and more powerful than ever.
New technologies have revolutionized our daily lives luxuries once enjoyed only by the rich are commonplace and very affordable homeownership is widespread and our people have the expectation of continued economic growth and prosperity yet more and more people are coming to realize that they may prosper materially only for a time because their freedoms are diminishing.
The sobering reality is that America has been led far from its praiseworthy beginnings people and businesses grown under a heavy burden of economic political and social problems which are the result of the widespread departure from the fundamental truths that made our nation great if the united states of america is to endure sovereign people far and wide must once again come to understand embrace and live by timeless concepts called Americanism what made America great and set it apart from other lands was it natural resources know what their lands are equally blessed.
The people who built america came from elsewhere and created a government of planning and wisdom that spurred our nation to such Heights it wasn't what government did that made America great it was what government was prevented from doing that made the difference what sets America apart from other lands with freedom the individual freedom to work to produce to succeed and especially to keep the fruits of one's Labor's America became great precisely because the stifling effect of too much government had been prevented however freedom in America was not totally unrestrained Americans overwhelmingly chose to limit their actions with moral codes such as the Ten Commandments personal morality and limited government.
It's a combination that characterizes America and made it the envy of the world when our founding fathers decided they had enough of British oppression that broke away and declared independence they stated as self-evident truth in the Declaration of Independence that men armed out by their creator with certain unalienable rights in other words God gave man has rights and that among them are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and in the very next sentence the founders define the proper role of government when they stated that to secure these rights governments are instituted this is the entire philosophical basis of our nation here the government cannot legitimately redistribute the wealth of power over the people's lives and dominate man's existence with oppressive taxation regulations and controls according to the founders government was to be a negative force which leaves people alone its sole function is to protect citizens from one another and from foreign governments and especially from their own government that founders did not create a government to be a positive force to do things for people to take from some to give to others they understood that when the government starts doing something for one citizen it has to take from another to do so and in the process of games can roll over both British rulers didn't accept the declaration of independence so our forefathers had to fight a war to make it stick by 1783 the war for independence had been won and British forces were sent back across the sea but the governmental system at the time was weak.
It had no power to settle disputes between the states nor the power to tax for proper needs such as national defense.
So in 1787 delegates from 12 of the 13 States met in Philadelphia to revise the system and they produced an entirely new governmental structure known as the Constitution of the United States keeping faith with the thunders assertions in the Declaration the Constitution was written to government the government not the people and not the states each of which was a jealous guardian of its own sovereign d the founders created a central government with strictly limited powers this left the states free to compete with one another to be the best state the one with the least amount of taxation and controls one where citizens would want to build the business and raise a family that spirit of competition produced excellence as honest competition always does.
It's important to note that the Constitution wasn't forced on the people it was sent back to the states for ratification several of the founding fathers wrote essays explaining it in an effort to persuade fellow Americans to adopt this new system of government some of the essays written by james madison alexander hamilton and Jon Jay were collected into a volume known as The Federalist Papers those essays provide valuable insights into the intent of the founders in establishing our government eventually all 13 states ratified the Constitution and then each ratified the first ten amendments known as the Bill of Rights further time the hands of the federal government.
These amendments are indeed about rights but it would have been better had the Bill of Rights been labeled the Bill of limitations on government why because it's vital to realize that the Bill of Rights never gave citizens any rights whatsoever.
Its sole purpose was to safeguard god-given rights by limiting government power the founders even insisted that Congress shall make no law about speech religion the press assembly the right to petition the right to keep and bear arms and so on these amendments are directed squarely at the federal government not the individual and not the states they are like most of the 10 commandments which are essentially thou shalt not the Bill of Rights says Congress shall not shall not shall not all the way up to the marvelous 10th amendment which says in effect if we forgot anything you can't do that either.
When Benjamin Franklin exited the Constitutional Convention he was asked by a woman sir what have you given us his immediate response was a republic ma'am if you can keep it yet most Americans today have been persuaded that our nation's governmental system is a democracy and not a republic the difference between these two is essential in understanding Americanism and the American system before we discuss political systems however it's helpful to address the confusion that has been spread about the political spectrum many have been led to believe that the political spectrum places groups such as communists on the far left fascist or dictators on the far right and political moderates or centrist in the middle however a more accurate political spectrum will show government having zero power on the far right to having one hundred percent power on the far left.
At the extreme right there is no government the extreme left features total government under such labels as communism socialism fascism fascism princess potentates dictators kings and any form of total government those who claim that Nazis and fascists are right we never define their terms this amounts this spreading confusion toward the middle of the political spectrum can be found at type of government limited to its proper role of protecting the rights of the people that's where the Constitution of the United States is those who advocate such a form of government are really constitutional moderates so let's analyze the basic forms of government there monarchy or dictatorship ruled by one oligarchy ruled by a few democracy ruled by a majority Republic ruled by law and Anarchy which is ruled by no one in discussing these five we will see that they can be narrowed down to even fewer looking first a monarchy or dictatorship this form of government doesn't really exist in the practical sense it's always a group that puts one of its members up front a king has his Council of nobles were girls and every dictator has his bureaucrats or commissars the men behind the scenes this isn't ruled by one even though one person maybe the visible leader it's ruled by a group so let's eliminate monarchy dictatorship because it never truly exists oligarchy which is ruled by a group is the most common form of government in all history and it is the most common form of government today most of the nations of the world are ruled by a powerful few and therefore an oligarchy at the other and we find enter key which means without government some people have looked over history and found that many of its worst crimes were committed by government so they decided that having no government might be a good idea but this is a mistake because the ancient Greeks stated without law that can be no freedom our founding fathers agreed and held that some amount of government is a necessary force in any civilized orderly Society in a state of Anarchy however everyone has to guard life liberty and property and the lives of family members.
Everyone must be armed and movement is severely restricted because once property has to be protected at all times civilized people have always hired someone to do the gardening sheriff or police force for some branch of government ones law enforcement was in place that people were freer they could leave their property work in the fields and so on.
Ensure the proper amount of government makes everyone freer there are some who advocate energy however not because they want no government because they don't like what they have.
They use Anarchy as a tool for revolutionary change the condition of anarchy is very much like a vacuum wear something rushes in to fill it these calculating anarchists work to break down the existing government with riots killing looting and terrorism tragically the people living in such chaos often go to those best able to put into it and beg them to take over and restore order and who is best able to put an end to the chaos the very people who started the anarchists who created the problem then create a government run by them and oligarchy would they have total power this is exactly what happened in Russia that led to taking landon taking total power and in Germany where hitless Brownshirts created the chaos that brought him to power anarchy is in a stable form of government in its quick transition from something that exists to something desired by the power-hungry it's a temporary condition and because it isn't permanent we eliminate it as well.
The word democracy comes from two Greek words die most meaning people and Kratos meaning power to rule democracy therefore means the rule of the people majority rule this of course sounds good but suppose the majority decides to take away one tom or business or children obviously there has to be a limit the flaw in democracy is that the majority isn't restrained if more than half the people can be persuaded to want something in a democracy the rule what about republic.
Well that comes from the Landry's meaning thing in public the public thing a true Republic is one where the government is limited by law leaving the people alone America's Founders had a clean slate to write on they could have set up in oligarchy in fact there were some who wanted George Washington to be their king but the founding fathers new history and they chose to give us the rule of law in a republic not the rule of the majority in the democracy.
Why let's demonstrate the difference in the setting of the Old West consider a lynch mob in the democracy 35 horseback riders chase one lone gunman and a vault the 35 horseback riders catch and hang the garmin democracy has triumphed and there's one less gunman to contend with now consider the same scenario in the Republic.
The 35 horseback riders catch the government and vote 30 2 521 to hang him but the sheriff arrives and he says you can't kill him he's got his right to a fair trial so they take the gunman back to town.
A jury of his peers is selected and they hear the evidence and the defense and they decided official hang does the jury even decide by majority rule no it has to be unanimous or he goes free the rights of the government aren't subject to the majority rule but to the longest is the essence of Republic many Americans would be surprised to learn that the word democracy does not appear in the declaration of independence or the s Constitution nor does it appear in any of the Constitution's of the 50 states the founders did everything they could to keep us from having a democracy james madison rightly known as the father of the Constitution wrote in Psalm number 10 of the Federalist Papers democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property and have in general but in short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Alexander Hamilton agreed any stated we are republican government real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of democracy samuel adams a signer of the Declaration of Independence stated democracy never lasts long it soon wastes exhausts and murders itself the founders had good reason to look upon democracy with contempt because they knew that the democracies in the early Greek city-states produce some of the wingless successes of government imaginable in every case they ended up with mob rule then anarchy and finally tyranny under an oligarchy during the period in Greece there was a man named solon who urged creation of a fixed body and long not subject to majority wins while the Greeks never adopted Solon's wise counsel the Romans did based on what they knew about Solon's laws they created the Twelve Tables of the Roman law in effect built a republic that limited government power and left the people alone since government was limited the people were free to produce with the understanding that they could keep the fruits of their labor in time Rome became wealthy and the envy of the world in the midst of plenty however the Roman people forgot what freedom until they forgot that the essence of freedom is the proper limitation of government when government power grows people's freedom recedes once the Romans drop their guard tower seeking politicians begin to exceed the powers granted them in the Roman Constitution some learned that they could elect politicians who would use government power to take property from some and give it to others agriculture subsidies were introduced followed by housing and welfare programs inevitably taxes rose and controls over the private sector were imposed soon a number of rooms people could no longer make ends meet and they went on the dole productivity decline shortages developed and mobs began roaming the streets demanding bread and shelter from the government.
Many were induced to trade freedom for security.
Eventually the whole system came crashing down.
They went from the Republic to a democracy and ended up with an oligarchy under a progression of the Caesars thus democracy itself is not a stable form of government instead it is the gradual transition from limited government to the unlimited role of an oligarchy knowing this we as Americans are ultimately left with only two choices we can keep our republic as Franklin put it all we will inevitably end up with an oligarchy a tyranny of the elite just as there is widespread confusion regarding political systems there is similar confusion in the economic arena all during the 20th century Americans were led to believe that there was a great struggle going on between capitalism in the Communist world undoubtedly a struggle existed but the real adversaries were rarely identified properly no discussion about economic systems will make sense without first defining terms and one of the most basic terms in economics is capital whose definition is the means of production to illustrate what capital is let's consider a very simple economy on the sands of a small island castaway has just washed ashore.
He has no food and he's hungry he searches the island he finds no berries coconuts or anything edible he goes back into the water and tries to catch fish with his bare hands but he fails so he goes back up on shore he finds a bush he breaks off the branch and mother sharp tip and heads back into the water with his spear he catches fish his spirits capital it's the means of production for catching fish.
He gave up some of his time and some of this energy to produce something he could not eat but something that would help him to produce something that he could eat capital therefore can be tools machinery and even a man's hand made spirit to catch fish such being the case consider that the Communists in the former Soviet Union as well as in China and Cuba have always used tools and machinery officials there even view people as capital therefore by strict definition are not common aspect capitalists for that matter isn't everyone a capitalist and so is not every economic system a capital system what then is the difference between what the communist system is and what the American capitalist system is supposed to be the difference is ownership of the capital is the system monopolistic state-controlled capitalism or is it competitive free enterprise capitalism it is between those two opposing economic systems that a battle has always raged before we proceed let's also define free market basically free market is a self-regulating system in which all parties are completely free to transact with one another but we're force fraud or injury damages one-party the government's role is only to punish those who commit such offenses and to vindicate the rights of the other party this protects the integrity of the free market or free enterprise system without intervening in it.
The term private property also needs clarification for private ownership and control of property is a key component in the free enterprise system in order for ownership of property to be full and complete all four of its aspects must be met these are title control use and the ability to dispose of what a person owns in a free market economy these aspects are unrestrained so long as the owner does not infringe on the legitimate rights and claims of others true ownership off property and freedom go hand-in-hand.
They always have.
Now let's compare the two systems of capitalism in the competitive free enterprise system capital or property is both on privately and controlled privately in the monopolistic system holding title the capital can be accomplished privately or by the state but more importantly capital is controlled by the state or by the elite few who control the state the communist manifesto which contains the basic program for all communists and all socialists explicitly preaches the destruction and abolition of private property.
Karl Marx understood the powers of controlling capital and so have all communists and socialists who have ever looked and still look to marks as their leader state-controlled capitalism results in high prices and low-quality after all why would a monopoly strive to improve it has no competition on the other hand honest thrifty and hardworking producers throughout the world prefer competitive free enterprise system for all here low prices and high quality prevail because a variety of producers will seek to attract the widest amount of customers competition results in excellence and always has just as the political spectrum shows the range of government power we can also applaud the various economic systems along another spectrum these forms of government control in the market stand in sharp contrast with a completely free market in the last in a century or so there have been basically four forms of state control economies all on the far left of the economic spectrum fascism nasm socialism and communism in each the government controls the capital.
Difference among these is how much they own or control outright the government in fascist system doesn't own businesses on paper but it does control them in Mussolini s Italy even though he didn't hold title to businesses he told the owners want to produce how much to produce went to produce where to buy raw materials who to hire or fire and what price to charge the rest he said was up to them the fascist system is more efficient than other state control systems insofar as those living under it think they still on their businesses shopkeepers concern themselves with maintenance on the machinery employee relations painting the building and so forth the government controls owners through one rail taxation and regulations under nasm which means National Socialism its proponents when one step further and acquire ownership of some corporations such as volkswagen however Hitler didn't seize ownership of other industrial giants he simply controlled them just as much Mussolini had controlled businesses in Italy socialism is where government officials acquire possession of major industries such as transportation communications and utilities in order to leverage control over the entire economy through ownership of these vital segments of Industry and by creating government regulatory agencies socialist gain control over virtually everything else finally there is communism the granddaddy of all in the economic sense in a way communism is more honest and fascism because all of the capital is owned and controlled by the state there are no pretenses about it now let's combine political and economic systems because ultimately one never exist without the other we see again that there are only two ultimate choices a competitive free enterprise system in the Republic or monopolistic state control system under an oligarchy immoral people have always been a vital element of America's strength the founding fathers well understood the biblical teaching that righteousness exalts a nation they also knew that expecting a free market economy and limited government under Republic to endure without morality was expecting the impossible James Madison caution that limited government alone was inadequate for our nation and John Adams observed our Constitution was made only for moral and religious people it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other George Washington stated reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle yet there are people today who think that Liberty is licensed and that morality is an important or relevant to politics and economics but as Benjamin Franklin added only a virtuous people are capable of freedom as Nations become corrupt and vicious they have more need of masters the alternative to Americanism is what has condemned most of the human race to live as slaves throughout the millennia it is the idea that rights or privileges dispensed by an oligarchy according to the unlimited role of men that the state should control and on the nation's capital with all economic activity directed from essential power and that morality is inconsequential and that security is preferred over freedom and opportunity our nation continues to be stared off course and the principles that led to America's greatness are being cast aside.
The simple question for us is do we continue the slide away from our nation's founding principles or do we return to the kind of government we inherited time is running out for Americans who sense that something is wrong they have to decide what kind of a country we shall leave for future generations all that is needed is for a sufficient number of Americans to get involved in the fight for freedom and to return our nation to less government more responsibility and with God's help a better world.
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