236 Years ago today, the Convention Delegates approved their Draft of the U.S. Constitution
September 17, 2023
The U.S. Constitution, 236 years ago today (in 1787), was proposed to the States which would later ratify it into existence.
Alexander Hamilton had specifically sought to draft a constitution at the 1787 convention as only a set of negative prohibitions, expressly detailing the few named actions that Congress COULD NOT DO. In other words, his totalitarian-minded plan would have specifically allowed EVERYTHING being done but those precious few things expressly prohibited by being purposefully named.
His June 18th plan also sought to abolish the States, or at most, leave them as mere geographic subdivisions of a national domain.
Lastly, he sought to give U.S. Senators and American Presidents the elected terms for life, or at least during "good behaviour."
Thankfully, the remainder of convention delegates ignored his draconian plan and instead instituted a form of government which could only implement named powers, using necessary and proper means.
However, just 4 years later, Hamilton was able to start getting indirectly over time, that which he didn't get directly at the 1787 convention (in this first instance, his government bank of 1791).
We are today living Hamilton's legacy, of big government, doing anything and everything but those precious few things expressly prohibited (and the States, largely meaningless).
How did he do it, when his overt plan was trounced at the 1787 convention?
Read my book, "Trapped by Political Desire: The Novel," to learn how.
Hint, he did get two of his three main pillars (omnipotent government and 100% removal of State authority) FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA!
Further hint: he merely began taking an allowed special power (for special places) and indirectly extend that allowed special power BEYOND ALLOWABLE BOUNDARIES.
He and his philosophical posterity were and are able to do this, only because no one was (or has been) paying sufficient attention to stop his devious actions that he hid (with Chief Justice John Marshall’s later help) behind a curtain.
Thankfully, however, we can end the false extension of an allowed special power, because while the Constitution doesn't currently expressly prohibit that false extension, neither does it ever allow it, directly, either.
This circumstance of allowing without condoning means that without an amendment to expressly prohibit the devious extension of an allowed exclusive legislation authority beyond exclusive legislation borders, automatically, that we'll have to be intentional about ending the devious practice, in every case, through direct effort.
So, we must look behind the curtain and pull it back, to expose the fraud, and then start barking like crazy, to draw attention to the only thing that matters, the man behind the curtain, pulling the levers of deception, to keep us subjugated to a totalitarian form of government not rightfully ours, but valid only for places where no State has any governing authority.
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