Thanks Barry. > On Jun 8, 2026, at 10:06, Barry Brooks via groups.io > <[email protected]> wrote: > > During Reconstruction, after the Civil War, Republicans worked to refound the > nation as a democratic and egalitarian republic that embodied the values of > the Declaration of Independence. “By the Constitution it is stipulated that > ‘the United States shall guaranty to every state a republican form of > government,’” said Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in his eulogy for > Abraham Lincoln, “but the meaning of this guaranty must be found in the > birthday Declaration of the Republic, which is the controlling preamble of > the Constitution. Beyond all question, the United States, when called to > enforce the guaranty, must insist on the equality of all before the law, and > the consent of the governed.” Such, he continued, “is the true idea of > republican government according to American institutions.”
And these principles somehow "fell into the chasm between what is said and what is done" - William Hurt, Gorky Park (https://clip.cafe/gorky-park-1983/too-many-people-in-our-society-disappear-without-trace/). Jamelle Bouie didn't stop to explain what went wrong in his op-ed piece; he ignores the question of power, economic, political and social power of capital. By the 1870s, Cornelius Vanderbilt felt that it was time to heal the divisions on the terms of the former slaveowners, and Vanderbilt negotiated a deal to marry one of their daughters. By the 1870s, the northern capitalists did not need a democratic and egalitarian republic as that would only encourage their industrial workers. And soon their Republican Party politicians didn't need these things either. Mark -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41977): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41977 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/119709466/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
