Date: April 24, 2013

Preserve Our Constitution - Teach The Federalist Papers To Every Single Student

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The Federalist Papers

The Early Writings Of "Publius" On The Need For A Constitution For The 13 Colonies

All public schools need to be required to teach the reasons for the foundation of our society and the decisions that were made for the final words found in the U.S. Constitution.

"The Original Argument: The Federalists' Case for the Constitution, Adapted for the 21st Century."

TKS to Len Lerette of Canada for this special gift,eh?

On July 4, 2010, Joshua Charles, a graduate student at Kansas University, finished a rough draft on translating the Federalist Papers with the objective of allowing everyday Americans to easily understand the passion of those who signed the Constitution. It was a time when signatures could have meant certain death.

Joshua had been moved by the movie, Amazing Grace, a film about the life of British abolitionist and humanitarian, William Wilberforce.

   
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I understand Joshua's motivation, as I, your humble Webmaster, came to know Christ during the late summer of 1979 in Memphis, Tennessee, for a business meeting. I flew out of Chicago not knowing much about Christ except for the Christmas trees and the Easter bunnies and flew home a born-again Christian. It was the story of John Newton, a captain of a British slave ship, that caught my attention. Newton had come to Christ while sailing through a wicked storm, later writing a hymn in 1772 titled, Faith's Renew and Expectation. It would become the most well-know song in the world, which we have all come to know as Amazing Grace.

Newton's previous life as a slave trader would give new meaning to his own words in the song, A wretch like me, and would cause me almost two hundred years later to ask, If John Newton could be saved for his decisions in life, why not a nobody like me? Sadly the blind don't always see the truth, remembering the promise at the center of the Christian faith where we are all given free will in the way we run our lives, the decisions we make while alive, and the legacies we leave behind on our last days.

Once Blind - The Life of John Newton
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In an overview on how these Federalist translations were printed, Joshua Charles knew from watching Glenn Beck that he was interested in the Constitution and those who had fought for it. Charles had tried to contact Beck, as probably tens-of-thousands do every week. But Joshua was unsuccessful, thinking he may have wasted his time in translating the Federalist Papers. Then at the right moment providence stepped in. Joshua heard about Beck going to Wilmington, Ohio, in the winter of 2010 to talk about how people could raise themselves up without needing an arrogant and bloated federal government to hand them stuff.

Glenn Beck's "Stand-Up" in Wilmington, Ohio, December 15, 2010
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Joshua and a few other students decided to drive from Kansas to Wilmington, Ohio, a round trip of around 1,400 miles. He contacted people in Ohio, who made arrangements for sleeping quarters. Glenn Beck heard about these college students driving well over a thousand miles to "Stand Up" for America's independence in Wilmington, Ohio, where the media said the town was down and out. Beck's producers then contacted Joshua and his friends, asking for their story. That's when Joshua dropped in the information that he had translated the Federalists Papers.

And the rest is history.

Beck and Joshua got together and began to work on the project, fine tuning the words and sending updated drafts of copy to experts to insure the intended thoughts matched the original argument for the book.

Beck would later interview Joshua on his national morning radio show. Then on June 14, 2011, the Original Argument 400+ page book was released for sale. Beck and Joshua had selected 33 of the 85 Federalist Papers for the book. And instead of being published in their original chromatically order, the Papers were grouped in themes related to the Constitution.

Forwards would be written by Beck's team for a proper introduction to the historical context and its modern relevancy. Each of the 33 Federalist Papers are attributed to their three original writers as intended using the term "Publius," or the "Caesar Strategy." The Papers were arguments taken from those founders from over two hundred years ago who had hoped to ratify the Constitution at the Constitutional Convention of September, 1787. Nine states would be needed out of the 13 to pass, one of those critical states being New York and why the state is sometimes focused on in the Papers.

The Federalists Papers and their success in the 1787 voting, as seen in part in the publication of this Original Argument, shows us men of principal and dedication who wanted to see one nation. They were Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay.

Joshua Charles on Glenn Beck Radio New Book, The Original Argument.
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The following are paragraphs from Beck's / Joshua Original Argument with a short reason why I selected them for this e-mail. At the end of the book is a very valuable appendix, which takes the Constitution as originally ratified and cross references it with the arguments of the three writers of the Federalist Papers. (Note: Any underlines below have been added to the original text.)

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The Dangers Of Foreign Force and Influence

- Written by John Jay, page 20. -

Note the humility when John Jay writes, We have been blessed by Providence with many different types of soils, industries, and waterways for the benefit of our people, etc.

He also writes . . . great joy to realize that Providence has given such a connected country to a united people who descended from the same ancestors, speak the same language, profess the same religion, embrace a similar culture and similar notions of government, etc.

But this is not the America I know in 2013, a foreign universe to what John Jay writes.

Our entertainment industry is filled to the brim with pagan images and filthy language. Our huge federal government overflows with regulations that seek to promote political correctness in the use of land while spitting on the people's rights to use their land.

Now the United Nations in its Agenda 21 says it's not the people's land, but the world's land. And who wants to run the world? You guessed it. The United Nations.

Marriage from thousands of years is being redefined between "beings," happily opening the door to multiple human marriages and marriage between a man / woman / beast (being). This is happening as Professor Peter Singer from Princeton University's (cough) Human Ethic's Department travels around the country to promote bestiality at other universities. Princeton on Singer's hiring in 1999 gave the excuse that the school needed . . . wait of it . . . more diversity.

And now we have discovered that American universities once based on the rock of Christian values are having sex weeks with live S&M beatings on stage backed by progressive far-left administrations while liberal alumni stay silent.

But the most troubling is our supreme court, which is supposed to base its decisions on the founder's intent along with the Constitution they had written approved by a majority of the Colonies. However, with the installation into the U.S. Supreme Court of Ruth Bader Ginsburg by a Senate vote of 96-4, a secular Jew and former officer in the ACLU, an organization that has been openly dedicated in crushing Christian influence in America, the court would now suddenly change its direction and look for more progressive rulings based on secular court cases in Europe. This was never the intent of our founders, who rightfully feared the effects of foreign influence.

Original Argument Copy:

"It gives me great pleasure to sit back and realize that this now independent America of ours was not made up of distant and detached territories, but that our western Sons of Liberty were blessed with a connected and fertile country. We have been blessed by Providence with many different types of soils, industries, and waterways for the benefit of our people—waterways that surround our borders, act as highways for easy communication amongst friends, foster our commerce, and bind us together as one.

It has also given me great joy to realize that Providence has given such a connected country to a united people who descended from the same ancestors, speak the same language, profess the same religion, embrace a similar culture and similar notions of government, and who fought for their liberty and independence as one. Providence seems not only to have destined this country and this people for each other, but also that such a country, united by the strongest ties, should never be divided.

Similar feelings have been expressed by every part of our society—and for good reason: We have been, for all intents and purposes, a single people, and we've each enjoyed the same national rights, privileges, and protections. As a single nation we have made peace and war, defeated our common enemies, and formed alliances and negotiated treaties with foreign nations."

John Jay

 

The Great Compromise

- Introduction to Part Two, page 47. -

The introduction to Part Two that contains Federalist Papers 23, 37, 41, 42, 43. 44, and 51 reading, The purpose of the Constitution was simply to provide a structure that would protect us from anyone who thought they were greater than God.

Liberal progressives represented by the election of Barack Obama understand well that to take down the Constitution they had to remove God from America's institutions and then attack free thought.

They knew Obama was the leader they had been waiting for . . . their progressive Messiah. It was Obama himself who stuck his middle finger into America's face along with its symbols of pride and patriotism, using his famous and deliberate "Crotch Salute," so named by some in our military.

Removing God from the country's fabric has already been accomplished in many of our universities and is now aimed at some of our public schools through leaders educated, and I use that term loosely, in far-left institutions not unlike the Teachers College of Columbia University. It's Teachers College graduates are taught to see personal accomplishments as offensive to other students who don't want to study as hard . . . if at all.

With the open S&M demonstrations in colleges tied to promotions of pornography supported by the Obama administration's support of Planned Parenthood and its open use of pornographic images to teach so-called sex education to America's children, the Christian community is under full attack well clarified by the outgoing president of the National Teachers Association, (NEA), in 2009 calling conservatives "bastards."

Original Argument Copy:

"Freedom is not the natural state of man. Without a shield in place to protect individual rights and the force to hold that shield strong, freedom becomes fleeting. Tyranny, the I state of government, inevitably returns.

In America, that shield is our Constitution, and the force that allows us to hold it strong is God. The purpose of the Constitution was simply to provide a structure that would protect us from anyone who thought they were greater than God. That, of course, includes the federal government itself. "The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people,"

Patrick Henry wrote. It is an instrument for the people to restrain the government—lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

 

The Great Compromise (Continued)

- Introduction to Part Two, page 58. -

The Introduction to Part Two ends with this thought, They [the founders] wanted to ensure that the will of the people was the true will of society, not simply a temporary majority who had come together along some kind of specific line (like, for example, religion) in order to effect change across the entire population.

Our founders could have never realized that their "free" media would become so biased it would gather its outlets to put out the same message for the single purpose of keeping one party in control, which would then enable progressive programs to run wild in Washington D.C. This is being done while the media attempts to sweep Christian values under the rug.

Americans were forewarned of this coming siege from an author in the 1970's who believed that the new Medium was the Massage. He was the first one to explain the conflict of 1970's cool conservative programs on television sets in millions of living room in America suddenly being surrounded by the images of a very hot Vietnam War and its returning body bags.

Americans at home were becoming confused by a media that young far-left radicals such as John Kerry and Jane Fonda were learning to control for their personal agendas. Reports wrote about thousands in crowds seen quietly milling around until the radical leaders saw the lights on the broadcast TV cameras turn red, then suddenly exploding for the electron tube that was being pointed at them for transmission of their images around the world.

Indoctrination using the media for social engineering of the public continued, this time the agenda aimed toward the acceptance of homosexual acts. Cathy Renna, lesbian and former PR director for GLAAD in 1999, reported to GLAAD's annual convention that over 1,500 GLAAD members were now set up in newsroom across the country and that leftist had the high ground in the media.

Renna did this knowing only months earlier a 13-year old boy, Jesse Dirkhising, had been tortured and murdered by two men, which virtually all national media outlets refused to cover except FOX News. Police also confirmed that FOX News was the only national media that considered it important to cover the trial of these men who had brutally killed a teenager in the midwest. FOX reported it had carried the story not because of a teenager's murder by men, but because no one in the national media would cover it. I called it the day the printing presses went silent.

However ten years later some in the media would wonder if the public has had it with of all the "finger-wagging," such as making fun of men and women making babies as huffing and puffing, referring to them as "breeders."

We see the same thing happening today, 12 years later, with national media outlets trying to hide the news of an abortion doctor as a routine practice murdering babies that had survived outside the womb, getting away with it for over a decade.

I had noticed this change in the news around 1996 when the American Society of Newspaper Editors, (ASNE), in its recommendation on hiring practices to newspapers around the country removed religion and replaced it with sexual orientation.

Original Argument Copy:

"It was an elegant solution to a complicated problem: How do you hand over power without it being used against you? But the Founders still worried about creating those 'auxiliary precautions,' mainly to prevent special majorities of people from being able to bond together to the disadvantage of minority groups.

They wanted to ensure that the will of the people was the true will of society, not simply a temporary majority who had come together along some kind of specific line (like, for example, religion) in order to effect change across the entire population.

That created quite a problem: If a majority of people come together and use their power as prescribed in the Constitution, how can they be prevented from enacting the 'wrong" kind of\ change? Madison believed the answer would be found in the size of the country. "The society itself,' he wrote, 'will be broken into so many parts, interests, and classes of citizens, that the rights of individuals, or of the minority, will be in little danger from interested combinations of the majority.'

Has that prediction held up? In many respects, yes—a national religion was never established, for instance. And, in terms of the ability of a simple majority to enact their will in the Constitution itself—there's no doubt its difficult.

And what about something even more basic like term limits for senators and representatives? Polls show upwards of 80 percent of Americans favor them—but is that close to passing? Same goes for a balanced budget amendment (61 percent favor).

 

The General Overview Of The Senate

- Federalist Paper 62, written by James Madison, page 210. -

Note Madison writes a warning about laws that citizens don't understand: "It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood . . . "

Madison wrote that if laws weren't kept simple enough for people to understand them, how could citizens then obey them?

The "Relevance to Today" comment below reminds us about the quick passage of the Obama Healthcare Bill so no one could read it. Madison was worried that laws would become "so voluminous that they cannot be read."

But he probably never considered the weasels we have in the Democrat Party today that didn't want the Healthcare Bill read so people wouldn't know what was in it. The problem with this is that one day the people will have to know what was in the bill and eventually, no matter how hard the corrupt Democrat Party tries to avoid it, the s*** is going to hit the fan.

We all remember the arrogance of the witch from the west who said with a smile even the Wizard of Oz would run from, We won't know what is in the bill until we pass the bill.

On the other hand, Robert Ramirez puts truth in political cartoons so easy to understand that even low-information Obama voters can get it. Here are some classics on the Obama Healthcare Bill.

Mr. Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow and has won several awards during his career, including the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, the UCI Medal from the University of California, Irvine and the Sigma Delta Chi Awards in 1995 and 1997. He has been the editorial cartoonist of the Los Angeles Times, the Commercial Appeal and USA Today, and is nationally syndicated in over 450 newspapers around the world.

Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

Mr. Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow and has won several awards during his career, including the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, the UCI Medal from the University of California, Irvine and the Sigma Delta Chi Awards in 1995 and 1997. He has been the editorial cartoonist of the Los Angeles Times, the Commercial Appeal and USA Today, and is nationally syndicated in over 450 newspapers around the world.

Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

Mr. Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow and has won several awards during his career, including the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, the UCI Medal from the University of California, Irvine and the Sigma Delta Chi Awards in 1995 and 1997. He has been the editorial cartoonist of the Los Angeles Times, the Commercial Appeal and USA Today, and is nationally syndicated in over 450 newspapers around the world.

Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

Mr. Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow and has won several awards during his career, including the 1994 Pulitzer Prize, the UCI Medal from the University of California, Irvine and the Sigma Delta Chi Awards in 1995 and 1997. He has been the editorial cartoonist of the Los Angeles Times, the Commercial Appeal and USA Today, and is nationally syndicated in over 450 newspapers around the world.

Cartoons by Michael Ramirez

Original Argument Copy:

"Relevance to Today: The number of voluminous and incoherent laws Americans deal with today is amazing. Some of these laws are so large, in fact, that on the eve of passing the stimulus bill in 2008, New Jersey senator Frank Lautenberg explained to the press that though his colleagues would vote on the bill, they probably did not 'have the chance' to read it.

Similar situations emerged with the health-care reform and energy bills the next year. If politicians can't read or understand legislation, how can citizens be expected to? It's the ultimate display of arrogance."

 

The Length Of The President's Term

- Federalist Paper 71, written by Alexander Hamilton, page 232. -

Alexander Hamilton couldn't believe that the people would fear a president who could serve only four years in office, writing, Wouldn't all we have to fear be that he might not be equal to the task that the Constitution assigns to him? If anyone doubts that during a four-year term the President will not be firm enough, then they cannot at the same time also fear that he will infringe upon or violate his powers."

But Hamilton could not have ever imagined that a free national media would one day not be competitive among themselves but instead form an alliance. While the national media would provide news, at the same time it would march in rank step to bury other news as if an event had never happened. That way any news stories that countered the media's progressive agenda would be left on the editing room floor as of no interest.

This was brought to light a few years ago when someone asked an arrogant columnist for the New York Times, (pick one), Why didn't the New York Times print a story about Sarah Palin that would have proved her correct on the upcoming healthcare bill?

The columnist was reported to have shouted back, Because it ain' t news until we say it is!

The founders could never have believed that in the future a national organization representing newspapers across the country, the American Society of Newspaper Editors, (ASNE), would actually drop religion as a topic for not being biased toward the hiring of a journalist.

They didn't just add sexual orientation as an issue of discrimination when hiring. They added it and then gutted religion to the twilight zone. That was verified by an editor with a local Gannett-owned daily newspaper, who had written a terse e-mail back to me about where religion had gone as a bias issue when hiring journalists. He wrote, They put it under "other!"

At the time I sent a registered letter to the ASNE in late 1999, asking if they had accidentally deleted religion on their diversity page. Their response? The page stayed the same.

Recently they did delete the original copy from their Web site. But I found their language again on another 1999 page. So the ASNE is playing games with our right to know. Surprise, surprise, eh?

Original Argument Copy:

"If, from the most humble beginnings, a British House of Commons, merely with the power to agree or disagree to the imposition of a new tax, was able to rapidly reduce the powers of the Crown and the privileges of the nobility within the limits which they thought appropriate to the principles of free government if they could at the same time raise their own status to that of a co-equal house of the legislature (Parliament); if they could at one time abolish both the royalty and the aristocracy, while over­turning the ancient institutions within both the church and the state; if they were capable of eventually making the king tremble at the prospect of them making their own changes and applying their own ideas to the government, then what do we have to fear from an Executive elected every four years whose powers will be confined to the authorities that are given to the President of the United States by the new Constitution?

Wouldn't all we have to fear be that he might not be equal to the task that the Constitution assigns to him? If anyone doubts that during a four-year term the President will not be firm enough, then they cannot at the same time also fear that he will infringe upon or violate his powers."

Alexander Hamilton

 

The Delicate Balance Of Power

- Introduction to Part Four, Alexander Hamilton, page 237. -

Alexander Hamilton was very clear about the Constitution allowing citizens to carry arms to protect themselves from a corrupted federal government when he wrote: 'If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.'

In a Congress that doesn't read bills anymore before passing them, some U.S. House representatives laughed. The language was too complicated. They, too, like the ASNE, are playing with fire, messing with the people's right to know

John Conyers - Still Failing America

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Original Argument Copy:

"In theory and on paper, yes, the federal government and the state governments were essentially equals. But in reality we all understand that's no longer the way it works.

The federal government is able to pass legislation having nothing to do with the powers enumerated to it and, all too often, the states sit back and take it.

The second way to balance the power given to the federal government was the cornerstone principle of the entire constitution: power to the people. If the states failed in their responsibility, then it would be up to the people to respond.

'If the representatives of the people betray their constituents,' Hamilton wrote, 'there is then no resource left but in the exertion of that original right of self-defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government.'

We don't often think of it in these terms, but what better way to refer to the process of standing up to a group that is trying to take something away from you than self-defense.

If someone told you they were actively taking your life, you'd respond in self-defense. If someone told you they were actively trying to take your liberty, you'd respond in self-defense. If someone told you they were actively trying to stop you from pursuing happiness, you'd respond in self-defense.

After all, self-defense in the face of an aggressor is a basic right. If the federal government abuses its authority and betrays its constituents, then citizens possess the right—in fact, they have the responsibility—to defend themselves.

All of this, of course, assumes that the people understand their rights and are willing to defend them."

 

The Relative Influence Of The Federal Government and State Governments

- Federalist Paper, James Madison, page 264. -

James Madison understood that the states were the first line of defense against an overaggressive Federal Bureaucracy, writing, Unless the intrusions of the Federal government were voluntarily abandoned, then the appeal to force that would occur in response to foreign oppression would also occur in response to oppression from the Federal government."

It is important for Americans to understand that the states are the ones that are responsible to sound the alarm of an overreaching Federal government, which under the Obama administration is approaching a point of concern with the Executive branch seeing the Constitution as a blockade to obtain more power without the approval of Congress.

One of the most interesting articles of our time came from the American Thinker as Obama was entering office for his first year in October of 2009. The title said it all about the balance of powers cracking under the weight of a corrupt president supported by an equally corrupt media and political party. It reminds one of another dangerous marriage eighty years ago when the media fawned over another government and six million of its citizens never came home:

Does the Supreme Court Still Sit?

Click here to read how the supreme court has begun to shut down religious freedoms.

Original Argument Copy:

"If the Federal government ever ambitiously intrudes on the authority of the state governments, then not only would the opposition of a single state or a few states rally, but a general alarm would sound for all states.

Every government would espouse a common cause, communication between them would open up, resistance plans would be organized together, and all states would come together with a single purpose.

In short, the same rallying together which would occur if there was danger of foreign oppression would also result from a fear of Federal oppression. Unless the intrusions of the Federal government were voluntarily abandoned, then the appeal to force that would occur in response to foreign oppression would also occur in response to oppression from the Federal government."

James Madison

 

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