Political Party ~ Two Party System Failed?
Government Based on the Original United States Constitution
~ Proposed and Submitted by Johnnie Johnson
July 11, 2011
Get rid of all party systems. (Please include previous section as a reason, Electing our President.)
(In fact consider all previous sections, we do not need political parties for any government function.)
Who is not fed up with our political parties and their constant wrangling? A divided Congress undermines the constitutional tools for controlling government. Political parties can be good in oppressive governments, to divide the people and obtain the strength to fight, but parties are not proper in a government that belongs to a free people who have their own governmental representatives, with power to change their government peacefully any time they need to. Parties do not better our government in any way, but rather frustrate the works and designs that the founders put in our National Constitution.
Parties by their very nature, thirst for power. They exist to obtain our vote and exercise our power and authority in their way. We have seen in our own day, the effects of party power on government and the people. When different parties dominate the political process, too often the people loose. Dominant Parties tend to dominate and force their own will upon the nation instead of respectful debate and negotiations among our elected officials. With parties, there is little due respect for fellow Americans that don’t belong to the party, or follow its dictates. At times it is akin to being under a foreign government, only the demands are coming from within our own government, through the allusion of the people’s sanction.
George Washing spoke strongly about his concerns of using party systems. I have taken the liberty of concentrating his words on this subject from his Farewell Address, delivered the 17th of September 1796.
15 “… One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings, which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those, who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection”
17 “…all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, …”
18 ”However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government; destroying afterwards the very engines, which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”
20 “I have already intimated to you the danger of parties … Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally.”
22 “The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.”
23 “Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind, (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely out of sight,) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it.”
24 “It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.”
25 “… in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. …. And, there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should consume.”
The party system does not just stop with the election of a candidate. They are very heavily involved in the legislative process. (The camel, revels in the tent.)
Our Constitutional Government was constructed to function perfectly well without the influence of any party system. Parties bring no power to the American people, and no benefit to our government, that the founders have not already delivered to us. We have just drifted from those original designs, and not fully activated all powers intended. As originally designed, we have all power and influence over our government. The founders gave us the keys. (Article 1. Sec. 8 Par. 1 and 8) “The Congress shall have power … To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.” Government works for, and is responsible to the citizens. Our Constitution is the blueprint of a freeman’s government, designed to function without filtering or blocking through any party system.
The title of American is all that is needed in this free land. Let us get back to the basics of government by the people, and govern our government the way the founders intended a free people to govern. Indeed let us all stand up independently as Americans, parting ways with the party system and let our own voice be heard loudly and respectfully, over and through our government, IN THE MANNER ESTABLISHED BY THE FOUNDERS.
Let us all stand forth, recognizing the power of our God given freedoms and exert ourselves as “independent Americans parting” with today’s wayward governmental processes and all party systems, to govern based on the original United States Constitution.
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