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Things are heating up in the political realm! With the lop-sided Congress we now have, and the fact that there is no need for bipartisanship; any bill that makes it to the floor of either house can be automatically passed, and that places our government upside-down.

Unfortunately this is the sign of the times. This is not the first time this imbalance has occurred but it is rare for both Houses of Congress AND the Executive office to be controlled by the same party! However, because of our Constitution the voters decide this, so they get what they (the majority) voted for.

This brings up an interesting question: are we a Democracy or a Republic? Thanks for asking! The chief characteristic and distinguishing feature of a Democracy is: Rule by Omnipotent Majority. In a Democracy, the Individual, and any group of Individuals composing any Minority, have no protection against the unlimited power of The Majority. It is a case of Majority-over-Man.  The Majority’s power is absolute and unlimited; its decisions are unappealable under the legal system established to give effect to this form of government. This opens the door to unlimited Tyranny-by-Majority.

Professor Alexander Fraser Tytler, nearly two centuries ago, had this to say about Democracy: ” A Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of Government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largess out of public treasury.  From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that Democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a Dictatorship.“

To prevent that from happening, the Founding Fathers decided on setting up a Republic. The definition of a Republic is: a constitutionally-limited government of the representative type, created by a written Constitution–adopted by the people and changeable (from its original meaning) by them only by its amendment–with its powers divided between three separate Branches: Executive, Legislative and Judicial. Here the term “the people” means, of course, the electorate.

A Republic has a very different purpose and an entirely different form, or system, of government. Its purpose is to control The Majority strictly, as well as all others among the people, primarily to protect The Individual’s God-given, unalienable rights and therefore for the protection of the rights of The Minority, of all minorities, and the liberties of people in general.

So, technically, we in the United States have a Republic “- – - and to the Republic for which it stands – - - “. But, have we drifted slightly off center? If we don’t maintain all the aspects of a true Republic, we would then drift into a mutated government, a cancer that has no controls, no limits in what it (the governing body) can do. Do we see signs of that happening already? Unless there is a true balance in our Constitutional government we will see the scales that “Lady Justice” holds fall away.

Fortunately, and as a matter of the electorate eventually realizing their error of voting for a lop-sided governing body, they can change that status. But, the unfortunate side of all this is that much damage can be done to the Nation by the seizing of power and undermining the foundations of the country before they can be voted out! Much of the legislation that is now being forced on us cannot be reversed, or certainly not quickly enough to prevent irreparable damage to us, the electorate.

The only recourse is to keep an eye on November, do your part in bringing forth and supporting honorable, honest candidates. A lop-sided legislature – by either party – is not healthy and is even harmful to this country, for we lose the function of checks and balances.

If the current imbalance is not corrected, this Nation as we know it is doomed!

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