We
the People
of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice,
insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the
general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our
Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of
America.
One
of the first blessings promised to the States in the Preamble of the
Constitution of 1787 is a more perfect union.
But the events surrounding Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh
prove once again the inability of the Constitution to deliver on its opening
promise. Protestors in favor of various
causes of the so-called ‘Left’ were at the hearings in full force to disrupt
the proceedings, lest one of their adversaries on the ‘Right’ should be
appointed to the Supreme Court and rule in ways they find unjust. And lately claims and counter-claims as to
the moral uprightness of the Judge and his accusers have become very heated as
well.
The
Constitution’s impotence to unite could not be otherwise, however. Whether one views it as a compact between
sovereign States or a contract between sovereign individuals, the end product
of such a document, which has as the overarching goal for the people living
under its authority only an ill-defined liberty, will never be unity, but
chaos.
The
peoples of the States have a hard question in front of them, then: Do they really want unity? And if they answer Yes, this leads to a second
question: How do they propose to achieve
it?
Unity
comes ultimately from shared religious beliefs and the shared way of life that
flows from them. But the American boast
has always been in the freedom of religion of its various peoples. With religious pluralism, however, comes
different conceptions of God, of right worship, right living, and so on. Again, this does not lead to unity but to
conflict.
The
solution in the States to this impasse has been to downplay the need for
dogmatic religious unity and replace it with dogmatic unity of another kind,
whether political and/or economic. But
this did not lead to the desired result, either, for there was a split right at
the start of the new constitutional era between the Jeffersonians and the Hamiltonians:
The
Federalist Party, or Hamiltonians, believed in a strong central government, a
national banking system, fiat currency, a national debt, protective tariffs and
internal taxes, direct aid to corporations, loose construction of the
Constitution, the suppression of civil liberties, and an internationalist
foreign policy.
The
Republican Party, or Jeffersonians (not to be confused with the modern-day
Party of Lincoln), by contrast, believed in limited government, federalism,
sound money, low taxes and tariffs, no national debt, government separation
from banks, no subsidies for business, a strict construction of the
Constitution, including the protection of civil liberties held by the people,
and a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Simply
put, the Hamiltonians believed in the merits of an energetic national
government; Jeffersonians believed in de-centralization and trusted in the
people to govern themselves.
--Ryan Walters, https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-unshaken-rock-the-jeffersonian-tradition-in-america/
So
great in fact was the divide between these factions that the great disaster of
the War between the States had to sweep through the land before a measure of
harmony was restored. But the War only
made the divisions dormant for a time; it didn’t resolve the problem.
This
leads one to the disturbing crux of the whole matter of unity in the
States: The only thing that has ever
brought a measure of oneness has been war, whether with external enemies (the
War for Independence with Great Britain, War of 1812, WWII, the Cold War, etc.)
or with internal enemies (the War of Northern Aggression against the South).
This
brings forward an inescapable question:
Are those who want the States to remain united willing to go to war to
achieve that end? . . .
The
rest is at https://usareally.com/1618-the-false-promise-of-unity
***
The
Abbeville Institute has also been kind enough to host some of what we’ve
written. Here are a few of those pieces:
‘An
Appeal to Southern Graduates’
‘The
Southern Saga’
‘What’s
in a (Generational) Name?’
Our
thanks to them!
--
Holy
Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!
Anathema
to the Union!
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