Are you tired of the way our government is doing today? This book shows you the reader what you can do about the insanity going on in Washington today. It shows what the legitimate powers of the Federal government are and its bounds it is not to cross. You will read and find out you are not alone in your frustrations and how banding together things can be changed. You will read quotes from Founding Fathers that plainly show what they wanted in a government. You will read quotes from the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. You will see the difference between the Statesmen of old versus the people in government today. You will see that we were not founded as a democracy, but something much better. Voice your opinion and send Washington a message with the last pages of this book. Sign the statements and mail them to your representatives.

Enough With the Insanity

Restore the RepublicBy R. L. Womac

AuthorHouse

Copyright © 2010 R. L. Womac
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4520-2732-6

Chapter One

Introduction to our Type of Government

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

The above is the preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. If you are under 40 years old you probably have never heard of it. When I was in school we were required to memorize this important piece of our history. Now as you read on you will be given quotes from the man who wrote the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson. A former President and one of the architects of our country and form of government, which qualifies him as knowing how they wanted our system to work, don't you think?

Now lets set some things straight right off the bat, form of government, Republican. That's right, Republican not democracy. Our teachers and government on one of our most basic things have misled a lot of people.

There are some misconceptions that a lot of people have about our country. The biggest is that we are the greatest democracy in the world. We were not founded as a democracy at all. This country was founded as a republic: remember the pledge of allegiance? " And to the republic for which it stands", is the quote. What you are going to read next is from the Constitution of The United States.

Article IV - The States Section 4 - Republican government

The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence.

Get you a copy of the Constitution and look for yourself. What's the difference you ask? You tell me after you read what's next. The following are quotes from Thomas Jefferson. Since he was there when this country was founded I'm sure he knew what they meant when they formed this country's system of government.

"From the moment that to preserve our rights a change of government became necessary, no doubt could be entertained that a republican form was most consonant with reason, with right, with the freedom of man, and with the character and situation of our fellow citizens." -Thomas Jefferson: Reply to Virginia Legislature, 1809. ME 16:333 "The people through all the States are for republican forms, republican principles, simplicity, economy, religious and civil freedom." -Thomas Jefferson to Edward Livingston, 1800. ME 10:164 "[Our] object is to secure self-government by the republicanism of our constitution, as well as by the spirit of the people; and to nourish and perpetuate that spirit. I am not among those who fear the people. They and not the rich are our dependence for continued freedom." -Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:39 The difference between a republic and a democracy can be brought out simply. Rome was a democracy with senators and an emperor. The senate could vote on things but the emperor could still basically do, as he wanted. The senators could eventually be replaced. They listened to the people and voted to present laws to the emperor. The people had representatives that really didn't answer to them. You also in a democracy have what can basically be called, mob rule. The bigger groups get what they want regardless of people's rights. In a republic you have elected representatives too. Your elected representatives answer to the people. You the citizens are the supreme power in a republic because you are telling your elected representatives what to do and what kind of laws you want. They are to work for you in your place at the seat of government. Read the following quotes; let me remind you once again that this man wrote the Declaration of Independence. He knew what kind of government they were creating. "A government is republican in proportion as every member composing it has his equal voice in the direction of its concerns: not indeed in person, which would be impracticable beyond the limits of a city or small township, but by representatives chosen by himself and responsible to him at short periods." -Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Kercheval, 1816. ME 15:33 "Action by the citizens in person, in affairs within their reach and competence, and in all others by representatives, chosen immediately, and removable by themselves, constitutes the essence of a republic ... All governments are more or less republican in proportion as this principle enters more or less into their composition." -Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. ME 14:490 "[To establish republican government, it is necessary to] effect a constitution in which the will of the nation shall have an organized control over the actions of its government, and its citizens a regular protection against its oppressions." -Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1816. ME 19:240 "We think experience has proved it safer for the mass of individuals composing the society to reserve to themselves personally the exercise of all rightful powers to which they are competent and to delegate those to which they are not competent to deputies named and removable for unfaithful conduct by themselves immediately." -Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. ME 14:487 "The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory; it is their will which creates or annihilates the organ which is to declare and announce it. They may do it by a single person, as an emperor of Russia (constituting his declarations evidence of their will), or by a few persons, as the aristocracy of Venice, or by a complication of councils, as in our former regal government or our present republican one. The law being law because it is the will of the nation, is not changed by their changing the organ through which they choose to announce their future will; no more than the acts I have done by one attorney lose their obligation by my changing or discontinuing that attorney." -Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 1799. ME 10:126 I do believe with confidence I have shown you the reader that our government was not formed as a Democracy. To some it may have come as a shock but we must now press on to the next chapter. Now can you tell the difference between a republic and mob rule democracy? In a republic the people and not their elected representatives are the supreme power. Self government is what we wanted and got originally, my question to you the reader is this; what happened to make this country the way it is now?

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