By definition the difference between confederation and a federation is that the many memberships of the member states in a confederation are voluntary, while the membership in a federation is not.
By definition the difference between confederation and a federation is that the many memberships of the member states in a confederation are voluntary, while the membership in a federation is not.
this is the real deal and 300 million Americans in 49 other states are watching to see what emerges. Countries around the world, including China, are now watching and waiting. Do you know how many article in global news publications around China have referenced Utah’s new legislation? Hundreds. This is a powerful moment in history for the United Sates and the State of Utah. What happens in Utah will influence the world for the next 100-200 years.
To those smart minds in Utah, and to the journalists who like reporting on this stuff; please stop speculating on what “you” think might work for Utah. Don’t keep going to the kitchen looking for the “really sharp” knife. Ask the experts. Compare and examine the successful private legal digital currencies around the globe. Please look at the digital gold currency systems which have been working flawlessly for the past 10-12 years.
“This Is Thinly Veiled Racism!” White Nationalists Speaks At CPAC (by MOXNEWSd0tCOM)
So CPAC didn’t want Ron Paul to attend but they did invite the White Nationalist to have a featured speech? Looks like Ron Paul made a smart more by blowing off the event.
“The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.” ~ James Madison
History has shown this statement to be either wishful thinking or a deliberate falsehood. Regardless of which opinion you hold, the Anti-Federalists were right. They correctly predicted the unlimited power of a consolidated government under the Constitution. Not only were the Anti-Federalists right to a degree that they could never have imagined; I seriously doubt that the so-called “Federalists” could have envisioned or would have approved of their new government becoming the monstrosity that it now is.
It should be pointed out that before we had Democrates and Republicans there were two schools of thought that argued about how power should flow in this new government. Hamilton and Madison were “old school” and wanted TOP-DOWN government, while Patrick Henry was more “liberal” and forward thinking. He argued for a BOTTOM-UP government where sovereignty resided with the people and the states. Henry’s great concern was that a TOP-DOWN government would centralize power to the point our President would become a King and in time we would lose our liberties and the revolution would have been for not. Therefore Patrick Henry argued for a bill of rights to protect the individual from TOP DOWN government, and while he won that battle, in the end he lost the war.
Just as an old bill that would take away our liberties was rebranded “The Patriot Act” after 9/11 so the term “Federalist” is a misnomer. Like the quote above it seem to have been a deliberate attempt to deceive people. A federal government is by definition a decentralized government. Yet, those who called themselves “Federalists” wanted a stronger central government. This was abuse of language was an intentional corruption, its purpose was to confuse people—and it has to this day. Today, only one person on the political scene represents the true federalist (BOTTOM-UP) point of view. That man is as we all know is Ron Paul, and like Patrick Henry before him, the Paul brand of “Anti-Federalist” conservationism is just to “liberal” for most people in the Republican party. They seem to think TOP-DOWN is the way things have always been and therefore it is “conservatism” to keep things they way they “should be” and not change it. Maybe the next champion of liberty should run as a democrat—if he or she did, I think the message of BOTTOM-UP would be better received.
The term Anti-Federalists is a misnomer. A federal government is a decentralized government.
Madison articulated the Federalist view that the new nation would be a combination of federal and national power. This essay was meant to assure doubtful Anti-federalists that the new government was not taking power away from individuals or from the separate states.
Federalist = Those who desired to establish a strong central authority over the states. They argued for a balance of power between national authority and states rights to self-government. They also argued against any need for a “bill of rights.” They lost that battle, but won the war.
Anti-Federalist = Those who upheld the rights of the states to retain their own authority as it flowed to them from the WE THE PEOPLE. The great fear of the Anti-Federalist was that American would one day install a President as King and people would lose their sovereignty and their individual liberty.
Patrick Henry’s speech before the Virginia ratifying convention was almost a direct rebuttal to Madison’s “Federalist No. 39,” claiming that the Federalists were leading people astray with false promises. In the Word Cloud, Henry uses the words ‘government,’ ‘people,’ and ‘power’ prominently, showcasing his concern with the new Constitution’s reassignment of powers. Henry articulately describes the Antifederalist view that the new central government will be taking power away from the people, compromising their safety and their rights. Ever a fervent Virginian, Henry uses the word ‘Virginia’ as much as ‘states’ and ‘American,’ and more than ‘union,’ ‘country,’ or ‘Congress’. Henry relied on Virginians’ pride in their sovereign state and their faith in their own Declaration of Rights when he questioned the centralization of power: “The founders of your own Constitution made your Government changeable: But the power of changing it is gone from you!” (Henry). Henry acknowledges that the government is capable of being influenced by the individual but he asserts that all of the people of the states will now be able to make decisions about Virginia with equal authority as actual residents of the state. The word ‘King’ also features in the Word Cloud, symbolizing another Antifederalist fear that power would be centralized in an uncontrollable authority figure all too reminiscent of a king. Henry specifically says that the Constitution “squints towards monarchy” and worries “how easy is it for [the American chief] to render himself absolute” (Henry).
This Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting; it squints toward monarchy, and does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American? Your president may easily become king… If your American chief be a man of ambition and abilities, how easy is it for him to render himself absolute!
The Advantages of Small States and the Dangers of Centralization (Hans Hoppe) (by Nielsio)
