Federalism vs Nationalism: A Root Cause to Our Current Political Problems
America is having a spiritual and constitutional crisis, and We the People are at fault and blame. Our Government and our Courts are out of control because our people have succumbed to apathy, greed, sin, avarice, selfishness, and a culture of death and violence that now threaten to swallow our historic culture of life and liberty. As a People have we lost our will to fight for what is right and for our Judeo-Christian heritage. We are slaves of our own making to a judicial oligarchy that has subverted and subjugated our inalienable rights and sovereign freedoms to a national government foreign in concept to the Framers of our Constitution, Articles of Federation, and the American way of life. We are reaping the whirlwind of our own sins and neglect, and Obama may yet prove to be the hellish instrument of God’s judgment upon our People. Politics will not save us, and a national referendum will not spare the wrath of God’s righteous judgment that now sits at our gates. If spiritual revival does not undergird political revival, America may soon join Rome in the lost annals of time and history.
The continuing struggle between Federalism and Nationalism is one of the central keys to our current state of political affairs. Federalism and Nationalism are not flip sides of the same coin; they are, in fact, mortal and irreconcilable enemies. How many of our modern American patriots understand the fundamental differences and struggles? Or why this topic is so extremely relevant to our grass root movements that now cry for constitutional balance in our Government and in our Courts? How many Americans understand that our country was not founded as one nation under God but one federation (or confederacy) of free, independent, and sovereign States (or little countries)? We were founded a Constitutional Republic and not a Democracy (often referred to as a “mobocracy” by our founding forefathers).
In the early history of America, there was a great controversy and heated dispute between the true federalists and the true nationalists. Even Thomas Jefferson and James Madison often failed to understand the differences and interchangeably confused the two. Even most modern historians are confused over these crucial differences. The so-called Federalists were in fact nationalists; the so-called Anti-Federalists, or Republicans, were the true federalists. (How many people know that the modern Democrats and Republicans are the flip opposites of the early Democrats and Republicans?) The politically correct rewritten junk history books used in modern education can be very confusing and one sided in their biases, agendas, and presentation of facts.
The Framers of our Constitution understood each State to be its own independent and sovereign country – each equal to England, Spain, and France in every way. Contrary to popular misconceptions and deliberate obfuscations, our Constitution and Articles of Federation created a tightly controlled and regulated federal government and not an all powerful and domineering national government. A federal government has strict limits, and it has no power or authority over the coalition of states that created it. A national government, on the other hand, has no limits or restrictions on its power, and it can force its will and desires over the member coalition states against their choice and vote. A federal government must answer to We the People and to the States; a national government expects the People and the States to answer to it. Our Constitution and Articles of Federation created a federal government that derives all of its power from the consent of the People and the States, but they gave it no innate power to push and enforce any regulation over the People and the States against their sovereign will. Our Courts and Government have usurped the sovereignty of We the People and assumed power and authority that rightly belongs to us and not to them. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
If all Americans and true Patriots would study the history of how we got our Constitution and inalienable rights, and how our government and courts moved us away from our Constitution and our Federal Republic, We the People could yet restore sanity and constitutional constraints to our government and to our courts – but most Americans seem content in being wards of the Nanny State from the cradle to the grave (promise them some unearned benefits and they will vote however their party instructs them to do). We have become slaves to our own corruption and avarice, so do not blame the government and the courts for taking advantage of us – for they are us.
The Republicans (falsely named the Anti-Federalists by historians) insisted on a Bill of Rights to keep our government in line with the Constitution, but the Federalists (the true nationalists) did not feel that such a caution was necessary or expedient (it made their plans for nationalism more difficult, but in the end they won the day). For the past century and a half or longer, nationalists have infiltrated our courts and our civil institutions, and they have openly subverted the Constitution and the Sovereign rights of We the People. This is how our country lost its Constitutional Republic and inherited a mob-Democracy. If we want to restore our great Republic to its roots and delegation of powers in the Constitution, then we must return to our federal roots and abandon our national abomination. The key to restoring our Constitution is this; We must learn our history, review our mistakes, and vow to correct them and never repeat them. An informed populace can do more to restrain our government than any of our enemies or critics. We the People have too long lost sight of our spiritual heritage and Constitution. However, this can be remedied if the We the People would renew our passion and commitment to (a) our Constitution, and its limitations of power for our government and our courts, (b) our natural and inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ALL Americans, and (c) the very God of all life and liberty, the God of our founding forefathers, pilgrims, and settlers.
The continuing struggle between Federalism and Nationalism is one of the central keys to our current state of political affairs. Federalism and Nationalism are not flip sides of the same coin; they are, in fact, mortal and irreconcilable enemies. How many of our modern American patriots understand the fundamental differences and struggles? Or why this topic is so extremely relevant to our grass root movements that now cry for constitutional balance in our Government and in our Courts? How many Americans understand that our country was not founded as one nation under God but one federation (or confederacy) of free, independent, and sovereign States (or little countries)? We were founded a Constitutional Republic and not a Democracy (often referred to as a “mobocracy” by our founding forefathers).
In the early history of America, there was a great controversy and heated dispute between the true federalists and the true nationalists. Even Thomas Jefferson and James Madison often failed to understand the differences and interchangeably confused the two. Even most modern historians are confused over these crucial differences. The so-called Federalists were in fact nationalists; the so-called Anti-Federalists, or Republicans, were the true federalists. (How many people know that the modern Democrats and Republicans are the flip opposites of the early Democrats and Republicans?) The politically correct rewritten junk history books used in modern education can be very confusing and one sided in their biases, agendas, and presentation of facts.
The Framers of our Constitution understood each State to be its own independent and sovereign country – each equal to England, Spain, and France in every way. Contrary to popular misconceptions and deliberate obfuscations, our Constitution and Articles of Federation created a tightly controlled and regulated federal government and not an all powerful and domineering national government. A federal government has strict limits, and it has no power or authority over the coalition of states that created it. A national government, on the other hand, has no limits or restrictions on its power, and it can force its will and desires over the member coalition states against their choice and vote. A federal government must answer to We the People and to the States; a national government expects the People and the States to answer to it. Our Constitution and Articles of Federation created a federal government that derives all of its power from the consent of the People and the States, but they gave it no innate power to push and enforce any regulation over the People and the States against their sovereign will. Our Courts and Government have usurped the sovereignty of We the People and assumed power and authority that rightly belongs to us and not to them. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
If all Americans and true Patriots would study the history of how we got our Constitution and inalienable rights, and how our government and courts moved us away from our Constitution and our Federal Republic, We the People could yet restore sanity and constitutional constraints to our government and to our courts – but most Americans seem content in being wards of the Nanny State from the cradle to the grave (promise them some unearned benefits and they will vote however their party instructs them to do). We have become slaves to our own corruption and avarice, so do not blame the government and the courts for taking advantage of us – for they are us.
The Republicans (falsely named the Anti-Federalists by historians) insisted on a Bill of Rights to keep our government in line with the Constitution, but the Federalists (the true nationalists) did not feel that such a caution was necessary or expedient (it made their plans for nationalism more difficult, but in the end they won the day). For the past century and a half or longer, nationalists have infiltrated our courts and our civil institutions, and they have openly subverted the Constitution and the Sovereign rights of We the People. This is how our country lost its Constitutional Republic and inherited a mob-Democracy. If we want to restore our great Republic to its roots and delegation of powers in the Constitution, then we must return to our federal roots and abandon our national abomination. The key to restoring our Constitution is this; We must learn our history, review our mistakes, and vow to correct them and never repeat them. An informed populace can do more to restrain our government than any of our enemies or critics. We the People have too long lost sight of our spiritual heritage and Constitution. However, this can be remedied if the We the People would renew our passion and commitment to (a) our Constitution, and its limitations of power for our government and our courts, (b) our natural and inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for ALL Americans, and (c) the very God of all life and liberty, the God of our founding forefathers, pilgrims, and settlers.