Part I: Government
American Principle Nine
Authoritarians In Government Are
a Parasitic and Ever-Present Danger
"Taking away our charters, Abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments [constitutions]."
Declaration of Independence
"They know from experience… beset as they continually are by the wiles of parasites and sycophants [self-seeking] by the snares of the ambitious, the avaricious [greed for money], the desperate; by the artifices of men, who possess their confidence more than they deserve it, and of those who seek to possess, rather than to deserve it" (The Federalist No. 71, by Alexander Hamilton).
Two notable efforts by power-hungry authoritarians occurred near the end of the war for independence. First, army officers were conspiring to take control of Congress; second was an effort to make George Washington king. Washington squashed both of them abruptly. After all, Americans had just been through a bloody war with England to get rid of rule by authoritarians, religious and secular.
An axiom for detecting the corrupt and evil use of power is to follow the flow of money to politicians in and outside of government. Chief among tactics for overriding the will of the people is fraudulent election finance law. The importation of millions of campaign dollars from homosexual and abortion rights advocates from outside a region to be represented, given to those who would make the laws, is destructive of representative government. The people and representative governments must be protected from the importation of campaign funds from outside the region served by an elected government official. This is not a violation of free speech. Failure to do so is a crime against republican (not political party) government. Such violations call for severe punishment.
"For it is a truth which the experience of all ages has attested, that the people are commonly most in danger, when the means of injuring their rights are in the possession of those of whom they entertain the least suspicion" (The Federalist No. 25, by Alexander Hamilton).
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