Monday, July 8, 2013

Democracy doesn' just happen

Its important to know that democracy doesn't just happen. Governments, unlike the human condition, are not natural. They have to be established. North America is fortunate to have had a 'Founding event'. The basic argument among the Founding Fathers seems to have been the establishment and locus of political power. Since the colonies already existed and had jurisdiction over their inhabitants, the question was how is political power to be distributed between a Federal centralized power and the already existing State power. The result was a Republic which was something of a compromise. Its ridiculous to hear that the Supreme court is still making distinctions based on that compromise. The high court seems unaware of the fact that the basic consideration of the Constitutionality of a statute is the human condition. Humans set up the Constitutional Convention, humans gave both the Federal government and the State governments their right to be a sovereign political entity. They did this by exercising their right to vote. If anything impairs the people of their right to vote, it must be removed because that is what grants every political entity its sovereign power. The issue is the right to vote, not the power of the state vs. the power of the central government. Its not a contest between two autocratic rulers, its a contest among a Republic about the right to vote and the attempt to exert control over that right. A State may have certain powers but it cannot impair the Freedom and Equality of any individual within its jurisdiction; neither does the federal government. The human condition is natural and no government has the power to discriminate politically against it. No State government and no Federal government can be allowed to abuse the rights of the human condition. If the Supreme Court is setting a predicate to 'open the door' for later abuses, its not doing its job. Its 'playing politics'.

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