compare modern America and its government to what the original 13 colonies and the government they wanted. by Levi S.
(centrist)
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
July 4, 1776: Thomas Jefferson of Massachusetts, along with 55 others, signed the Declaration of Independence freeing the American Colonies from Great Britain. There are many questions us modern Americans must ask ourselves about the American Revolution. Why did the colonies want independence? What did England do to make the colonies so angry? What were the differences between the English government and the Colonial government? and the most important question: What would the Founding Fathers think if they were to see the American Government today?
Most people on answering those questions would of course say that England was over taxing the colonies, that England was threatening the colonies rights, that England had become to powerful and was a dangerous tyrant. All those answers would be correct.
Now turn on the news... what did you see? A alert of a tax increase? The Government threatening the 2nd Amendment and other rights? The more and more powerful the Government is getting? I don't think any of us would be surprised to see this. In fact many of us see this everyday.
I have asked all these questions and given all these examples to ask this one last and most important questions: Has America turned into the exact thing it originally fought for freedom from? Many think it has. Overtaxing, threatening of rights, and power hungry political figures has become the typical U.S. Government. The original American Colonies were formed to be a people-before-prophet government, it has become the opposite. The Government can watch thousands of people die everyday from hunger, but as long as they keep their trade by spending the money they could have fed those people with, their as happy as ever.
We will continue to watch the Government get more powerful, and more power hungry. And we simple citizens will have no say over the matters. We will just have to wait and see what's going to happen.
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Perhaps we have a different education as to our founding history. First, Mr. Jefferson was of Virginia, was governor there as a matter of fact.
Next, the major grievance of the colonies was taxation without representation in Parliament, and parliamentary imposition of duties. Ben Franklin served as our liaison to the British King in an effort to dissuade him from supporting parliamentary acts detrimental to colonial economic interests. Initially, we did not want an identity as separate from Britain, but rather as a participant in British rule.
Inevitably, a separate identity became a more practical approach. There were significant other international interests in close proximity, not to mention aboriginal peoples, that caused conflict between colonial interests and British interests. We can't simply rely on the propaganda, and battle cries as our source of history.
Our constitution allows for the government means to obtain revenues for its purposes. Today we elect our Senators and Representatives in direct election, our president by electing electors. In that way we have resolved our grievances that erupted into revolution.
Our constitution is ours to protect, and our leaders do pick and chose which of its tenets to observe. The threats you describe are ills of all governments. Do we change it by violence and anarchy?
first of all i would like to appoligize for the Jefferson thing, i used wikipedia for that paragraph lol.
second, i am sure you noticed my columns name "The Southern Nationalist". while i am a secessionist, i donot in any way promote violent secession. I am opposed to violent secession and think it should be a last resort. I donot support anarchy either. I support the idea of secession through negotations, treaties, and other necessities of separation. While I realize that the United States would most likely not approve, I believe the U.S. is not in any condition to stop a secession act right now. Negotiations would be made to prevent war by both sides.
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