This sort of fiction is at the heart of movements to “doaway” with the Electoral college which is the election process for a federalsystem, wherein the states elect the president and not the people of a nation.Presumably, those who offer the “do away” jargon mean appeal theconstitution.
If the people are sold on the idea that there is a
single value system for all fiftystates, then the states have no more significance than counties in a givenstate. The people of Butte Montana are simply the same Americans with the samevalues as the people of Chicago, Illinois.
So, are Illinois and Montana just scattered Americans livingin different places with the same American values? So, why should the stateselect a president? Just let the people elect him nationally and forget federaland federalism.
Taken in order, examine Prager’s values:
E. Pluribus Unum
This is one of those fictions from the revolutionary war days that reach the public mindset via
“repeat it” until it sticks.
“When first adopted simply as a
motto shortly after the founding in 1776 this Latin phrase referredto the 13 American Colonies becoming one
nation,Praeger said.
Hardly, since the concept of anything
national did not arise
until theConstitutional Convention in 1787 when the “national” plan was thrown out infavor of the “federal” plan; hence the fiction of “one nation.”
At the signing in 1776, each state was independent, and fivehad already seceded from the British Empire via each’s own declaration ofindependence: Virginia, New Hampshire, South Carolina, New Jersey, and RhodeIsland. Again, no nation, but asecession of independent states.
No consolidation into one unified nation was created by orunder this catchy Latin phrase, E. Pluribus Unum that supposedly has depictedsome huge national melting pot. A federal-style government simply took up a
signature for certification when unifiedon a subject.
From: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs
“Resolved, that Dr. Franklin, Mr. J. Adams, and Mr. Jefferson, be a committee, to bring in a device for a seal for the United States of America.”
.” “The task proved far more difficult than anticipated; it took 6 years, two more committees, and the combined efforts of 14 men before the Great Seal of the United States became a reality on June 20, 1782.”
E. Pluribus Unum was merely designed as a script for TheGreat Seal of the Confederation’s official documents; nothing more. This sealpresented a federal union whereby the members (states) would vote and not somenational state of people voting with universal values.
Liberty
This is one among many rights granted by our Creator, so the Declaration of Independence states. But Praeger’s video states that
liberty is a value “enshrined” by America. Is it God bless America or America bless God?
In God, We Trust
All Americans, not simply in war, but for every event, every law, are one. And though the concept of “no establishment of religion” is a part of the Bill of Rights, we offer homage to “In God We Trust,” as an American value? There are many Americans in many states with many values.
Five presidents have received fewer popular votes than theiropponent and still managed to win the electoral vote of the states. John Q.Adams, Rutherford B. Hayes, Benjamin Harrison, George W. Bush, and DonaldTrump. The most recent, Donald Trump’selection, has fueled the fires for a national election by eliminating thefederal system and the Electoral college.
It is clear why such liberal establishments as theDemocratic party want such action. But the above-vetted nonsense byNeoconservatives that there is one America and that is a national Americanunified single state, wherein the people by majority vote elect the presidentspeaks for itself about their historical insight. And probably
their values.
But the people of a nation did not elect Donald Trump. The
states of a federation
elected Donald Trump. And though thepeople of
America voted 48% to 47%for Hillary, the states elected Donald Trump in a landslide 57%-43%.
But as long as such twaddle, as above, about “American”values keep rolling around, the clock will keep running against the ElectoralCollege—and necessarily the republic.