It is in fact the time to take back the Republic.  America is not now nor has it ever been a democracy.  I know this is contrary to what many believe and what almost all of us have been taught.  It’s a lie.  Well that sounds devious and I don’t know that there is ill intent in everyone being taught that we have a democracy.  What I do know is there is nothing but ill in believing that America is or ever was a democracy.

The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held in strict secrecy. Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had been produced behind closed doors. The answer was provided immediately. A Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it." This exchange was recorded by Constitution signer James McHenry in a diary entry that was later reproduced in the 1906 American Historical Review.

America was a republic.  A democratic republic comprised of a union of sovereign states.  So there is an edge of a democracy to what America was created as, but it was never a simple democracy.  A democracy in the eyes of the founders (and they were right) could easily and quickly become as bad or worse than any despotism.

The Founding Fathers supported the view that (in the words of the Declaration of Independence) "Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." They recognized that such rights should not be violated by an unrestrained majority any more than they should be violated by an unrestrained king or monarch. In fact, they recognized that majority rule would quickly degenerate into mobocracy and then into tyranny. They had studied the history of both the Greek democracies and the Roman republic. They had a clear understanding of the relative freedom and stability that had characterized the latter, and of the strife and turmoil quickly followed by despotism that had characterized the former. In drafting the Constitution, they created a government of law and not of men, a republic and not a democracy.

Fisher Ames served in the U.S. Congress during the eight years of George Washington’s presidency. A prominent member of the Massachusetts convention that ratified the Constitution for that state, in an essay entitled The Mire of Democracy; he wrote that the framers of the Constitution "intended our government should be a republic, which differs more widely from a democracy than a democracy from despotism."

It’s important to understand all of this because once you do it will become abundantly clear moving forward to the 20^th century why our liberties are being stripped from us as our country turns ever more socialistic.  I cannot stress enough the great peril this places America in.  Do you care?  Perhaps you do and perhaps you do not.  Should you find that you are in the camp of disconnection and apathy; do you have children?  Grandchildren?  In what kind of world do you wish them to live?  If it is a socialist tyranny then there is nothing to worry about.  We will achieve that state likely within the next 15 years.  We are already on the path and it should be recognizable to anyone that even glances within the next 3 years.

If you hold the ideals of liberty, freedom, happiness, and choice in high regard then you better wake up and begin to take some action.

In the 19th century, many of the great leaders, both in America and abroad, stood in agreement with the Founding Fathers. John Marshall, chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835 echoed the sentiments of Fisher Ames. "Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos," he wrote.

American poet James Russell Lowell warned that "democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor."

Lowell was joined in his disdain for democracy by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who remarked that "democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors."

Across the Atlantic, British statesman Thomas Babington Macauly agreed with the Americans. "I have long been convinced," he said, "that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both."

Britons Benjamin Disraeli and Herbert Spencer would certainly agree with their countryman, Lord Acton, who wrote: "The one prevailing evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."

It is my belief that the Founding Fathers had an uncanny understanding of the world, human nature, and the balancing of risks.  If you look at the Government they constructed it was nearly incorruptible.  This was only true so long as it maintained the shape of its creation.  Mutating our republic to a democracy has been the key to the cancer.  We’ve stripped the safeguards from it creating an army of free radicals that are gnawing at the life force and fabric of our civilization.

Keep in mind many things tie together here that are hard to accept and at times even to comprehend.  Remember that the roots of the American Revolution existed in the fiat currency system of the British Monarchy.  The Founding Father (with the exception of probably only Hamilton) would never have accepted the current Federal Reserve model.  Yet as we crossed into the 20^th century many things changed.  Between 1910 and 1920 we had established the Federal Reserve as well as income tax.  But those two always had to go together.  There was little benefit to the Rothschild backed Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan’s private institution known as the Federal Reserve if they couldn’t establish a constant influx of cash from everyone. 

You are aware that the Federal Reserve is not a Government entity right?  You are aware that your income tax dollars are paid to this private bank which then provides loans to the U.S. Government to operate on right?  Thanks to Roosevelt and his hand picked successors Taft and then Wilson we made the transformation from a democratic republic to a socialist democracy.  The Federal Reserve funds our Government much the same way your favorite credit card companies fund your life.  You know those huge credit card bills that you pay on and pay on but most of the money goes to interest so you never really get much traction on the principle?  Yes indeed.  Same model just a much larger scale.  The Government will never pay of the deficit because the system is not designed for that to be possible.

Enough of that, let’s get back to the transformation to a democracy and the decline of America.

 One indicator of the radical transformation that took place is the contrast between the War Department’s 1928 "Training Manual No. 2000-25," which was intended for use in citizenship training, and what followed.

The 1928 U.S. government document correctly defined democracy as:

A government of the masses. Authority derived through mass meeting or any other form of "direct expression." Results in mobocracy. Attitude toward property is communistic, negating property rights. Attitude of the law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it be based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. This Results in demagoguism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy.

This manual also accurately stated that the framers of the Constitution "made a very marked distinction between a republic and a democracy  and said repeatedly and emphatically that they had formed a republic."

But by 1932, pressure against its use caused it to be withdrawn. In 1936, Senator Homer Truett Bone (D-WA) took to the floor of the Senate to call for the documents complete repudiation. By then, even finding a copy of the manual had become almost impossible. Decades later, in an article appearing in the October 1973 issue of Military Review, Lieutenant Colonel Paul B. Parham explained that the Army ceased using the manual because of letters of protest "from private citizens." Interestingly, Parham also noted that the word democracy "appears on one hand to be of key importance to, and holds some peculiar significance for, the Communists."

By 1952 the U.S. Army was singing the praises of democracy, instead of warning against it, in Field Manual 21-13, entitled The Soldier’s Guide. This new manual incorrectly stated: "Because the United States is a democracy, the majority of the people decide how our Government will be organized and run...."

Only 24 years from absolutely correct to hopelessly flawed:

British writer G.K. Chesterton put it in the 20th century: "You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution."

Democracy is not an end in itself but a means to an end

This can clearly be seen in the enormous support that democracy receives from Communist tyrants. 

Mao Tse-tung, proclaimed in 1939 (a decade before consolidating control on the Chinese mainland): "Taken as a whole, the Chinese revolutionary movement led by the Communist Party embraces the two stages, i.e., the democratic and the socialist revolutions, which are essentially different revolutionary processes, and the second process can be carried through only after the first has been completed. The democratic revolution is the necessary preparation for the socialist revolution, and the socialist revolution is the inevitable sequel to the democratic revolution. The ultimate aim for which all communists strive is to bring about a socialist and communist society."

Another champion of democracy is Mikhail Gorbachev, who stated in his 1987 book Perestroika that, "according to Lenin, socialism and democracy are indivisible.... The essence of perestroika lies in the fact that it unites socialism with democracy [emphasis in the original] and revives the Leninist concept.... We want more socialism and, therefore, more democracy."

Take a look around you today.  Take a look at tyranny forming around you.  Take a look at what democracy has brought to America. 

The change to democracy has only been possible because the Constitution is being ignored, violated, and circumvented. We no longer teach the young the Constitution.  We’ve altered the history we teach in our schools to the point that it is unrecognizable.  We never hold discussions about the responsibilities of citizenship.

The Constitution defines and limits the powers of the federal government. Those powers, all of which are enumerated, do not include agricultural subsidy programs, housing programs, education assistance programs, food stamps, etc. Under the Constitution, Congress is not authorized to pass any law it chooses; it is only authorized to pass laws that are constitutional. Anybody who doubts the intent of the Founders to restrict federal powers, and thereby protect the rights of the individual, should review the language in the Bill of Rights, including the opening phrase of the First Amendment ("Congress shall make no law...").

Even worse our current President is showing us that he doesn’t even require laws.  Using a combination of ignoring the law and scribbling out Executive Orders at a crazed, Crayola burning pace, he is proving that we are turning the corner once again.  Having shifted from a republic to a democracy, having started up the slope of socialism, we can now begin the death spiral into tyranny.


Good Reads on the Subject:

http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2000/11-06-2000/vo16no23_republic.htm

http://www.house.gov/paul/congrec/congrec2000/cr020200.htm