The LAW Posted on 4/7/2021 at 02:39:39 by Ed Tipshus
From reading quite a bit on the founding fathers and the historical events leading to our constitution (and the Federalist Papers etc.) What seems to me what too many of our current citizens today do not understand : Following our Revolutionary War. At the end of the Constitutional Convention held in Philadelphia. After creating our constitution when representatives delegates from the 13 original state were departing
Someone asked Benjamin Franklin “What have you done.” Franklin responded “We have created a REPUBLIC. based on Laws ” He did not say KINGDOM, or DEMOCRACY. A REPUBLIC is based on the LAWS enacted by citizen who elected their represenrtative to a lower House and upper Senate. by the people to be governed by them using laws passed by them . A Kingdom is ruled by a KING who decides or dictates everything shall be done. In a Democracy each individual has an equal vote where the majority votes on everything and decide issues, and each person has an equal power in the vote. This was too impractible a way for a large number of citizens to enact laws and manage a large population of people’s livelihood.
They Created a simple system to protect individuals and individua states from The Dictatorship Of The Majority (Democracy), with the Electoral College The delegates wisely decided to create representative for the people of each state and have a way of balancing the power of vote between large and small populated states and industrial and agricultural means (and slave and free states) , most people don’t recall that Rhode Island did not participated in the convention as it considered it was too small to get a proper representation. The constitutional convention was filled with astute learned delegates who discussed the different types of government that had been through history before them, including current KINGDOMS. And of
EGYPT, ROME, GREECE AND OTHERS
They also considered the extreme difficulty experienced during the recent revolutionary war,
The constitution established our system of government and establishing laws. and all representatives agreed , the constitution needed some statement of peoples individual rights, and the first 10 amendments became the peoples Bill of Rights. Our constitution is the bedrock of all our laws that we are governed by in peace and security. .
