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Restoring Representation- A Strategic Proposal III (Concluded)

May 15, 2012 · 0 comments

This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series Restoring Representation

True Representation- the Electoral College Strategy (concluded)
Step Three: Focus on a choice that represents the common good
On his departure from office America’s first President, George Washington delivered his famous Farewell Address in which, among other things, he warned against reliance on just the sort of partisan politics system that now dominates America’s political life, and [...]

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Restoring Representation- A Strategic Proposal III (Cont’d)

May 13, 2012 · 0 comments

This entry is part 5 of 6 in the series Restoring Representation

True Representation-the Electoral College Strategy (Cont’d)

 Step Two: Focus on restoring the political standard of  America’s Founders and renewing America’s common bond
A.  Look not for a President who will do for you, but for representatives who will choose a President most likely to do his sworn duty to the country.
In the lip-service they give to the [...]

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Restoring Representation- A Strategic Proposal III

May 11, 2012 · 5 comments

This entry is part 4 of 6 in the series Restoring Representation

True representation-the Electoral College strategy
Step One: Focus on the Electors
A. Rely on the people for what they do best
On Election Day 2012 when they go to the polls to vote for President and Vice-President most Americans will perceive their action in terms that ignore the electoral function the U.S. Constitution assigns to the sovereign body [...]

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May 8, 2012

Restoring Representation-A Strategic Proposal II

This entry is part 3 of 6 in the series Restoring Representation

 
Reclaiming the initiative of the people
Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3 ESV))
Periander began his reign in a mild spirit. But his manner changed after he had sent a herald to Thrasybúlus, the tyrant of Miletus, asking his advice how [...]

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May 6, 2012

Restoring Representation- A Strategic Proposal-I

This entry is part 2 of 6 in the series Restoring Representation

[Introductory Note: Whatever the activity involved, sound strategic thinking requires a clear view of the overall objective to be achieved, one that starts by taking account of the context and circumstances of action, including especially the nature of the obstacles that may be part of that account at any given time. The obstacles include, of [...]

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May 2, 2012

Demagoguery vs. Representation

This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Restoring Representation

“…of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.” (Alexander Hamilton, Federalist #1)
In the original Greek the word from which demagogue comes is a compound formed from the word for people and a word [...]

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May 1, 2012

No free nation without Representation

A significant number of America’s voters still believe in government of, by and for the people. They still believe in the moral premises the American people first articulated in order to justify and explain their decision to separate and withdraw themselves from the dominion of the British monarch. Standing, as it were, before God and [...]

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April 30, 2012

Any true Americans left among us?

[It's now clear that, as expected,  in November's Presidential election the elite faction's sham party system will offer American voters the choice between a Democrat lying in order to force anti-American socialism on the nation and a Republican lying in order to hide the role he proudly played in imposing anti-American socialism in Massachusetts. This [...]

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April 23, 2012

Choice dies when they won’t listen

This entry is part 8 of 9 in the series Without Representation

It has been frequently remarked that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country, by their conduct and example, to decide the important question, whether societies of men are really capable or not of establishing good government from reflection and choice, or whether they are forever destined to depend for their [...]

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April 19, 2012

Guess who Mitt Romney Represents?

This entry is part 7 of 9 in the series Without Representation

My WND column for this week concludes with the observation that “the elitist forces currently in control of the Republican Party have tacitly agreed with their opponents in rejecting the ideas of America’s founders. They are implementing a different understanding of politics, one that clearly appears in their relentless insistence that issues involving the acquisition [...]

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