A Few Words About a Coup D’état in Our Perfect USA
The most precious document in existence is the Constitution of the United States of America. This document spells out how the USA works, how the governance of the USA works, and what the rights of our citizens are and are not. It was created in the late 18th century by the Founders, including Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Monroe.
This, surely, is not what our Fathers intended. It’s what people with very different goals and needs want — and are getting.
It was in several articles. Article One spelled out how the President was to be ELECTED by the citizens of the USA. He or she was not to be appointed, not to be inherited, but to be elected by the free and fair balloting of the citizens. Over the centuries it was changed drastically so that non-whites and women and non-rich could vote and be elected. These were immense changes.
Article Two specified how the powers of the government were entrusted to an elected legislature. At first this was somewhat restricted. Non-whites, women, persons who had been slaves, persons without money, persons who had been prisoners, persons who had been in a rebellion, were not able to vote or serve in the legislature. This too was completely changed so that by now, the national legislature, the Senate and the House of Representatives, could be voted on and/or in by almost anyone. The power of the national legislature, also known as the Congress, was largely limitless.
It was, however, limited by other parts of the Constitution.
Article Three specified a national or federal judiciary. It took many decades, but eventually the powers of the federal judiciary came to be seen as largely without limits.
The federal judiciary could resolve disputes between and among the states, interpret federal and/or state laws, and read out whatever was confusing about state and/or federal powers under the Constitution.
These powers also were virtually limitless.
One thing the courts could NOT do, as far as I am aware, was usurp the powers under Article One to elect a President. That could be done only by the citizens/voters via the electoral college. If the courts could decide who got to be President, then the whole plan of having the USA be a Constitutional democracy was gone.
Instead, we now have a Republic based upon the machinations of lawyers and courts. That was never contemplated by any of the Founders, as far as I am aware.
But this is exactly what has happened in New York vs. Trump. By a long, tendentious sleight of hand maneuver, the Democrat Party has seized control of the electoral process. So long as there are aggressive district attorneys and power-hungry jurors anywhere in our America there is no more Constitutional process for electing a President.
This, surely, is not what our Fathers intended. It’s what people with very different goals and needs want — and are getting. Good night and good luck.
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