Excerpt from Chapter 10 of forthcoming book, After the Collapse: The Democratic Republic of America. by Laurie Thomas Vass. The use of the rhetoric of hate by the Democrats creates a social climate of violence. The climate of violence will eventually create a civil war, unless the natural rights conservativesContinue Reading
Laurie Thomas Vass, CEO of the Citizens Liberty Party “We do not have Obama judges or Trump judges, Bush judges or Clinton judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them,” Roberts said. The judicialContinue Reading
The Roman Republic was based upon allegiance of citizens to obey the unwritten rule of law. The allegiance to the rule of law was voluntary. The allegiance was sustained because Roman citizens shared a widespread cultural value of personal honor that compelled voluntary allegiance to obey the rule of law.Continue Reading
Laurie Thomas Vass, The Citizens Liberty Party. Part 1. Madison’s Attempt to Combine Two Cultures That Shared No Common Values The cultural values that initially bound the citizens of America together, and compelled voluntary allegiance to the rule of law, are stated in the Declaration of Independence. The cultural valuesContinue Reading
Laurie Thomas Vass, The Citizens Liberty Party Part 1. Madison’s Inverted Balance of Power. Madison’s American version of the British Constitution was influenced by the legal philosophy of Sir William Blackstone, who wrote Commentaries on the Laws of England. Because the United Kingdom was a monarchy, Blackstone spent a greatContinue Reading
Laurie Thomas Vass, The Citizens Liberty Party Part 1. Madison’s Virginia Constitution of 1776. Many academic historians have expressed surprise that Madison failed to describe the mission of the president in his Virginia Plan, of 1787. His plan had only two provisions that addressed the topic of the Office ofContinue Reading
Laurie Thomas Vass, The Citizens Liberty Party Part 1. The Genesis of American Centralized Tyranny “We the People” is the single most damaging text of Madison’s Constitution, in terms of damaging state sovereignty and individual natural rights. The text has been used by the U. S. Supreme Court, for 230Continue Reading
Laurie Thomas Vass, The Citizens Liberty Party Part 1. Madison’s Political System of Elected Representation. In his transformation of the American constitution from a natural rights republic, based on Jefferson’s Declaration, to the British social class mixed government, Madison had to modify the British political party system to fit hisContinue Reading
Laurie Thomas Vass, The Citizens Liberty Party Part 1. The Judicial Locus of National Sovereignty. In his transformation of the American constitution from a natural rights republic, based on Jefferson’s Declaration, to the British social class mixed government, Madison had to modify the locus of “sovereignty” from individual citizens toContinue Reading
Laurie Thomas Vass, The Citizens Liberty Party June 18, 2018 Introduction. Beginning around 1796, Madison’s Constitution generated periodic, recurring national economic crises, at an interval of about every 10 years. The instability in the U. S. economy is precipitated by speculation in assets, inflation, monetary instability, and tax and fiscalContinue Reading