| No one in their right mind wants government by | | | | can prevent morphing into the previous or latest |
| mass mind. No one wants majority rule and if | | | | tyranny. Everything is OK with some folks, some |
| someone does, they have no idea how it might | | | | things are OK with most folks and nothing is OK |
| work. There is no doubt in my mind there are | | | | with few folks. The last group likely has the most |
| minds in America today, far superior to those | | | | to offer the other two but they have no |
| who privately crafted governments, state and | | | | franchise and little public expression. Their votes |
| national, centuries ago, when wisdom was | | | | count the least, if they bother at all. In a |
| respected and fashionable. There are few if any | | | | democracy of ignorance, ignorance rules and |
| political parties that believe the old U.S. Constitution | | | | ignorance is easily manipulated by those with |
| is not in need of upgrade to suit the times. While | | | | great agendas, often no less ignorant than those |
| the original was drafted by elitist, self righteous | | | | they claim to represent. If there has been a |
| property and slave owners, the replacement could | | | | noticeable dumbing down of modern politicians, we |
| easily be crafted by high school and college | | | | can point to an educational system that holds law |
| students, professional think tanks, concerned | | | | to be a specialty. Even those who choose the |
| citizens, non citizen residents, political parties and | | | | specialty are cheated of a basic education in the |
| political candidates. We just need a few rule | | | | historical development, principles and fundamentals |
| changes to make this happen. | | | | of law. Hence, they graduate to practice |
| Rule number one: | | | | corporate law they neither know nor understand. |
| No political candidate may run for any state office | | | | Those who go on to write law are also simply |
| until that candidate has submitted a proposal for | | | | practicing, at every one else's expense. |
| changes in the state constitution and made it | | | | A U.S. Congressman proclaimed during last year's |
| public. | | | | presidential campaign that no one in Congress |
| Rule number two: | | | | reads all the bills they vote on. They depend upon |
| No political party shall have ballot status until it has | | | | aides and assistants to summarize the bills and |
| submitted a proposal for changes in the state | | | | they vote on the summary. We are told that if |
| constitution and made it public. Party platforms | | | | Congressmen had to read the laws they vote on, |
| can be next to useless but a proposal for | | | | nothing would get done. Maybe it is time to stop |
| changes in the laws that govern us all, tells a | | | | getting things done and examine the whole political |
| resident, citizen, or voter far more than campaign | | | | system. |
| platforms, themes, pledges and promises. All | | | | Rule number 6:no bill in any legislative body may |
| people would have the opportunity to know what | | | | be voted on unless it has been published for 30 |
| was at stake in any election. | | | | days and the pros and cons from all responders |
| Rule number 3: | | | | are tallied. This would allow the public to see when |
| No candidate for national office may have ballot | | | | they are being overruled by those claiming to |
| status without submitting a revision of the national | | | | represent them. The idea that we could get along |
| constitution and making it public. | | | | without a given law for ten years or a hundred |
| Rule number 4: | | | | and then need to rush a vote in the next few |
| No political party may attain ballot status in a | | | | days or hours, is absurd on its face. |
| national election until it has offered revisions to | | | | Most Americans now understand that laws are |
| the national constitution and made it public. | | | | not written by their representatives in law making |
| Rule number five: | | | | bodies. Laws are written by special interests who |
| No person shall vote in any election in which that | | | | hire lobbyists to submit and promote laws |
| person has not demonstrated a knowledge of the | | | | favoring the writers. Representatives then debate |
| ballot qualified parties. | | | | and vote upon these laws. If they were voting |
| We have a policy in our universal education of | | | | only after 30 days of public feedback, special |
| testing proficiencies in key subjects, such as | | | | interests would not have but a fraction of the |
| English, mathematics and science. Yet the social | | | | power they now enjoy. |
| contract, the laws we choose to live by together | | | | Rule number 7: |
| are handed to us by corporate professional | | | | No legislator shall post any bill for public |
| specialists, crafting social behavior by incessant | | | | examination, without disclosing the source of the |
| law making. Shouldn't laws be made by the people | | | | bill and a list of expected beneficiaries. The fact is |
| who must live by them and bear the costs? | | | | that most of our social contract is null and void, |
| Should those who know nothing of law and social | | | | due to fraudulent, treasonous government. Those |
| contract be making those laws and that contract | | | | most affected by current and future law, have |
| we are forced to live by in our daily lives? | | | | had no say in it. How can this be considered |
| By the way, shouldn't the people who are paying | | | | democratic in any way? How long should we |
| for the spread of democracy get a look at the | | | | pretend it is? This is the Information Age, not the |
| proposals for the new constitutions of | | | | Plantation Age. Perhaps it is time for the Law of |
| Afghanistan and Iraq? It's mostly math that tells | | | | the Land to reflect this minor change. What role |
| us the cost of a war in blood and money. By | | | | should ignorance play in the American future? Can |
| what measure do we determine the value of the | | | | we move to a qualified republican democracy |
| democracy effort? | | | | from a cruel joke? Where there is no will, there is |
| Disenfranchising the ignorant sounds undemocratic, | | | | no way. |
| yet it is the only way a democratic government | | | | |