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Domestic politics in the US is, superficially, dominated by incessant public fights between different factions of the two ostensibly rival parties, thanks to the collaboration of establishment media and many social networks. Less obvious to the majority, the oligarchic and bipartisan character of the federal government consists in using the enormous political and financial means of the United States mainly to the benefit of a small minority. The majority gets the crumbs spread among a decaying infrastructure…..
The years following the creation of the United States are important to understand the ascendancy of its federal government, today alarmingly unbridled and unchecked. It is necessary to recall first the great debate that took place between Federalists and Anti-Federalists around the new Constitution. This debate clearly showed that, among the Founding Fathers, there were already some who were alarmed by the power that the new Constitution would confer on the new federal government at the expense of the states and the people of the United States.……
The Constitution, in theory, limits the areas of responsibility of the federal government. But the lack of detail and, therefore, the freedom of interpretation of this document have contributed to giving the federal government, over time, a power that is unconstitutional. This is precisely the two-centuries-long confrontation between two radically different interpretations: the “living constitution” and “originalism.” The former view is largely responsible for the following federal laws: military conscription, “Jim Crow” laws, the income tax, the Federal Reserve, Roe v. Wade, the Social Security Act, anti-drug laws, the Patriot Act, etc.……
The Constitution, in theory, limits the areas of responsibility of the federal government. But the lack of detail and, therefore, the freedom of interpretation of this document have contributed to giving the federal government, over time, a power that is unconstitutional. This is precisely the two-centuries-long confrontation between two radically different interpretations: the “living constitution” and “originalism.” The former view is largely responsible for the following federal laws: military conscription, “Jim Crow” laws, the income tax, the Federal Reserve, Roe v. Wade, the Social Security Act, anti-drug laws, the Patriot Act, etc.
Lincoln’s letters show that he knew full well that, when he unconstitutionally ordered the federal government to militarily prevent the secession of the Confederate States, he was choosing to save the political United States of 1861 by going against its Constitution. Thomas DiLorenzo has thus showed that the Civil War was the moment when the modern state also arrived to America: the federal government then took definitive political ascendancy over the states, and the constitutional limits on its power were irremediably weakened.
Yes, the federal government usurped the powers of the people and the states, fatally for the constitution, durning the war between the states. Since then, we have been at one more step removed from being able to control the federal government. The oligarchs control it and it is now showing just how much they control everything. Perhaps, by weakening the federal government we will get some freedom back.