The Structure of the Government Must Furnish the Proper Checks
and Balances Between the Different Departments
From the New York Packet. Friday, February 8, 1788.
HAMILTON OR MADISON

Federalist Paper #51

"secondly, because the permanent tenure by which the appointments are held in that department, must soon destroy all sense of dependence on the authority conferring them."

Now, I guess it seems that his second point comes true even if the people vote for them in as often as every two years.  We have the likes of Murtha being re-elected on the basis of....well I have no idea.  He accuses our marines of being mindless killers and guilty of war crimes.  He ruins their lives in public without any evidence to prove his point.  He holds them guilty unless proven innocent.  The marines are then found to be innocent on all accounts and yet he will not even offer an apology!  This guy should be held accountable for his slander of these marines!  This guy should be tried for treason by aiding the enemy by handicapping our soldiers protecting his rights!  By some idiocy out in Pennsylvania he remains in office!  Do the people of his district have no conscience?  Do they not support the men and women of our fighting force?  Do they have no idea what people like Murtha are doing to this country?  Recently, I watched the entire series of Lord of the Rings and I came to a conclusion about a similarity.  Does anyone remember Wormtongue?  He is the guy who poisons the mind of the King of Rohan.  As Saruman plunders and kills across his borders, he accuses the captain of warmongering because he wants to ride out and kill those orcs.  As Islamic terrorists around the world continue attacking the west, the liberals are still accusing conservatives of warmongering.  There is an evil brooding in the east, but instead of a ring, a nuclear bomb will be the weapon most sought after by them.  I hope Israel eventually acts and does not allow our groping for the middle ground to ruin our country along with theirs. 

"But the great security against a gradual concentration of the several powers in the same department, consists in giving to those who administer each department the necessary constitutional means and personal motives to resist encroachments of the others."

There is a difference here when we talk of encroaching powers compared to his scenario.  In his situation he brings light to the possibility of departments usurping power from each other.  Currently it is each department encroaching on the rights of the people.  The way this is supposed to work out is logical and should create fear in the government from encroaching on the people's rights.  First, our authority over the legislature and executive is much the same as the executive and legislative over the judiciary.  We elect the people who represent us and when we see them taking control of our rights we are supposed to hold them accountable and remove them from office!  Second, if the government moves swiftly and secretly to take over powers not held in the constitution, to create a tyrannical government(or less), the people have the 2nd amendment to call to their aid and a force never before seen on this earth will swallow the government whole.  There are enough guns and trained people around this country to take out any military force put against us.  We must only band together.  With those two rights of authority over the departments of the government, it was built in a way for us to maintain the status quo. 

"But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?...If men were angels, no government would be necessary."

This is where socialism goes astray.  Human nature will never be able to sustain a socialism.  The only way socialism could survive would be for people to be robots without motives or feelings.  Capitalism takes humans drive for greed and power and uses it to its advantage.  There is a reason that the capitalistic societies are always much more productive than any other.  Socialism puts a person in a given spot and they are there whether they work hard or not.  That being the case, most every human will choose to lay back and relax.  Their work will get sloppy, productivity will go down, quality of products will go down and the society falls apart.  Sound familiar?  If you think about it, what has happened to our school system?  In capitalism, motivation and success is rewarded so people will strive for it.  Everyone wants to be rich, so they will work hard to get there.  Productivity goes up, quality of work goes up and the economy thrives.  That used to sound familiar, since it was our country as it was founded and was for many years after that. 

"It is of great importance in a republic not only to guard the society against the oppression of its rulers, but to guard one part of the society against the injustice of the other part."

And again here is a reasoning of why the second amendment was put into place.  The evidence to back the conservatives on this issue is so completely overwhelming I cannot for the life of me understand how liberals can even think about infringing upon our rights in this case. 

"In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights."

I guess this would follow that if the state funds a gay pride parade, they should fund a Christian pride parade too right?  The freedom of religion right has been twisted so much, it is hard to find anyone that knows the actual words.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
Now, does that say that the government cannot put a cross up on its city hall?  No!  It says that the government cannot declare a religion as the national religion and give money to it, but it also cannot stop anyone from expressing their religion to others.  Everyone always seems to forget the second part of that right.  There is also no wall between church and state as so many will have you believe.  More problems have happened since we removed all traces of God from schools than all the time before.  That should tell you something in itself.

"In a society under the forms of which the stronger faction can readily unite and oppress the weaker, anarchy may as truly be said to reign as in a state of nature"

Here we find a major difference in how conservatives govern compared to liberals.  Conservatives get the government as far away from the people as possible.  The less you notice them the better.  How can a majority of conservatives possibly oppress the others with a frame of mind like that.  On the flip side we have liberals who want the government at the center of each and every persons life.  If you make too much, it will be taken away.  If you are lazy, they will pay you to breathe.  If you give to charity, it will now be taxed higher than before (Glenn Beck talked about how this new bill has a tax increase for all charitable giving.  Check it out).  The government is at every street corner telling you what you can say, how you can say it and when you can say it.  Can you see how this could be an oppression of the other minority groups?  I can too.


To finish the above quote: "where the weaker individual is not secured against the violence of the stronger; and as, in the latter state, even the stronger individuals are prompted, by the uncertainty of their condition, to submit to a government which may protect the weak as well as themselves; so, in the former state, will the more powerful factions or parties be gradnally induced, by a like motive, to wish for a government which will protect all parties, the weaker as well as the more powerful."

What are democrats in the process of doing right now?  Exactly this.

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke