-Caveat Lector- -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Our Revolution and our Constitution Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 23:57:32 -0600 (CST) From: TheGolem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Florida Digital Turnpike (fdt.net) To: undisclosed-recipients:; -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [PNEWS] Our Revolution and Constitution The Constitution was intended to ensure that only an elite few would be in charge of this government and those same few would also be in charge of the economy. This is as Michael Parenti says, a "democracy for the few." And, it is the founding fathers and their Constitituion that ensures that this is so. We do not live in a democracy. This is a system where terror and repression predominates here and abroad. It is due in large part to the concentration of corporate power. The Constitution and glorification thereof, does nothing if not inhibit our objections to this concentration of power. One of the Founders, John Adams, believed that "Men in general...who are wholly destitute of property, are also too little acquainted with public affairs to form a right judgment, and too dependent on other men to have a will of their own." [Eric Foner, Tom Paine and Revolutionary America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976)] Whenever the "Framers" of the Constitution used the language, "the people" they meant only property owning people. These were the "people" who were to have limited participation in the government through the House of Representatives. These people were not even the richest and thus were considered the "middle classes." And, everyone below this property owning middle class were women, or people of color, indentured servants, and other people with NO property. They were "people in the first instance" as Charles Pinckney called them, or the majority, was simply "nonsense" and "wrong." "Political expression by these groups was not permitted and as we shall note, the Constitution was purposefully made to be anti-majoritarian in several ways. Representatives were to be of and among "the better people" who would have a material stake in society, who would be less given to some common impulse of passion, and who" [Toward an American Revolution - Exposing the Constitution and other Illusions - Jerry Fresia, South End Press] "......the Constitution protects the power of the more powerful. It does this because the Framers believed that it was the right of a few "better" people to own and control much of the earth's resources. And it does this because the Framers believed that the lives of women, people of color, and the poor ought to be defined in terms of the desires and interests of the rich. Resistance to this tyranny, from the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 to the revolutionary leaders of today who are genuinely committed to directing meager resources to the majority poor in the Third World, are and have been brutally repressed because the national army created by the Constitution is directed by that document to preserve these relationships of disparity." [IBID] Likewise, the Electoral College which came out of the establishment of a U.S. Constitution was not democratizing; it was to the contrary, designed to reenforce the establishment and maintenance of power by an elite ruling class. It was nothing more and nothing less. 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