A Republic, Not A Democracy by Dan Smoot 1966 Apr 18 — Transcript

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1. 0:00a constitutional republic not a
2. 0:04democracy the ideal of a democracy is
3. 0:07Universal equality the ideal of a
4. 0:09constitutional republic is individual
5. 0:11liberty a democracy always degenerates
6. 0:14in the dictatorship which promises
7. 0:16government guaranteed equality and
8. 0:18security but it delivers nothing but
9. 0:20poverty and serfdom for the people it
10. 0:22robs and rules America was founded as a
11. 0:25constitutional republic to safeguard the
12. 0:28liberties of the people against the
13. 0:29tyranny of democracy are a one-man
14. 0:31dictatorship in this century great
15. 0:34strides have been made toward the goal
16. 0:36of subverting our republic into a
17. 0:38democracy the form of tactic of the
18. 0:40subversion subversion of language by
19. 0:43calling America a democracy until people
20. 0:45thoughtlessly accept and use the term
21. 0:47the totalitarian have obscured the real
22. 0:50meaning of our principles of government
23. 0:52that is a summary of my report on a
24. 0:55constitutional republic not a democracy
25. 0:57the film report after a message from my
26. 1:00sponsor
27. 1:07a democracy is a political system in
28. 1:10which the people periodically by
29. 1:11majority vote at the polls select their
30. 1:13rulers the rulers then have absolute
31. 1:15power to make whatever laws they please
32. 1:18by majority vote among themselves in a
33. 1:20constitutional republic the people also
34. 1:22by majority vote as opposed select
35. 1:24rulers who make laws by majority vote
36. 1:26among themselves but the rulers cannot
37. 1:29make any laws they please because the
38. 1:31Constitution's severely restricts their
39. 1:32lawmaking power the ideal of a democracy
40. 1:36is Universal equality the ideal of a
41. 1:39constitutional republic is individual
42. 1:41liberty in this century great strides
43. 1:43have been made or the goal of subverting
44. 1:46our republic and transforming it into a
45. 1:47democracy the foremost tactic of the
46. 1:50subvert or subversion of language by
47. 1:53calling America a democracy until people
48. 1:56thoughtlessly accept and use the term
49. 1:59totalitarians
50. 2:00have obscured the real meaning of
51. 2:02American principles of government note
52. 2:04the following passages from a recent
53. 2:07article distributed by the New York
54. 2:08Times News Service quote in the United
55. 2:11States and in other leading democracies
56. 2:13recent years have seen perceptible
57. 2:16growth in executive authority as society
58. 2:19becomes more equalitarian it tends
59. 2:21increasingly to concentrate absolute
60. 2:24power in the hands of one single man
61. 2:26this is a voluntary surrender of a free
62. 2:29people escaping from freedom to one
63. 2:32autocratic master in quote and note the
64. 2:35following from gunnar myrdal's an
65. 2:37American dilemma quote in America
66. 2:39Liberty often provided an opportunity
67. 2:42for the stronger to rob the weaker
68. 2:44against this the equalitarian ISM in the
69. 2:47American creed has been persistently
70. 2:50revolting and in the conflict between
71. 2:52equality and liberty equality is slowly
72. 2:56winning in America conservatism has to a
73. 2:59great extent been perverted into a cult
74. 3:02of the Constitution this is unfortunate
75. 3:05since the Constitution is in many
76. 3:06respects impractical and ill suited for
77. 3:09modern conditions the worship of the
78. 3:12Constitution is also a most flagrant
79. 3:15violation of the American creed the
80. 3:18Constitutional Convention was nearly
81. 3:19a-plus
82. 3:20against the common people end quote now
83. 3:23goon are mere dolly Swedish socialism
84. 3:26was hired by the Carnegie Corporation of
85. 3:28New York in 1937 to direct a study of
86. 3:30the Negro in the United States engaged
87. 3:33the large staff some of them Communists
88. 3:35and pro-communist an American dilemma
89. 3:37resulted first copyrighted in the United
90. 3:39States in 1944 in 1954 the Supreme Court
91. 3:44handed down his school segregation
92. 3:46decision which deliberately violated the
93. 3:49Constitution reversed a previous Supreme
94. 3:51Court decision and lit a fuse touching
95. 3:54off explosive violence which has been
96. 3:56shattering our society ever since the
97. 3:59court cited an American dilemma as one
98. 4:02of the modern authorities on which it
99. 4:03relied in preference to the Constitution
100. 4:06for justification of its decision an
101. 4:09American dilemma written by Swedish
102. 4:11socialists provided a basic rationale
103. 4:14for the conversion of our Free Republic
104. 4:16into an equalitarian democracy mere doll
105. 4:20contains that the American Declaration
106. 4:21of Independence 1776 proclaimed the
107. 4:25ideal of an equalitarian democracy
108. 4:27because it contains the phrase all men
109. 4:29are created equal
110. 4:3011 years later the Constitution created
111. 4:33not a democracy founded on the idea of
112. 4:35equality but a Republic founded on the
113. 4:38ideal of Liberty this is by a mere doll
114. 4:40says the Constitutional Convention was
115. 4:42nearly a plot against the common people
116. 4:45but he and those who parrot his ideas
117. 4:48are either ignorant or dishonest the
118. 4:50Constitution was ordained specifically
119. 4:53to safeguard the principles of Liberty
120. 4:55proclaimed by the Declaration of
121. 4:57Independence the Declaration sprayed all
122. 5:00men are created equal means that men are
123. 5:03equal before the law and before the
124. 5:06Creator regardless of their inequality
125. 5:08in human society the Declaration says
126. 5:11that men are endowed with unalienable
127. 5:13rights and that the purpose of
128. 5:15government is to secure these rights the
129. 5:18unalienable rights of man enumerated in
130. 5:20the Declaration of Independence do not
131. 5:22include equality but they do include
132. 5:24Liberty along with life and pursuit of
133. 5:27happiness equality of all men in the
134. 5:30eyes of God and before the law is a
135. 5:32condition essential to freedom
136. 5:34but no other kind of equality is
137. 5:36possible government efforts to achieve
138. 5:39material equality will produce crushing
139. 5:42tyranny but will not make people equal
140. 5:45the writers of the Constitution were
141. 5:47anxious to safeguard Liberty against
142. 5:50dictatorship monarchy they called it but
143. 5:52their chief anxiety was to protect the
144. 5:55country against democracy Edmund
145. 5:57Randolph delegate to the Constitutional
146. 5:59Convention from Virginia said the
147. 6:01general object of the Convention was to
148. 6:03provide a cure for the follies and fury
149. 6:06of democracy Elbridge Gerry and Roger
150. 6:09Sherman delegates from Massachusetts and
151. 6:10Connecticut urged the Constitutional
152. 6:13Convention to create a system to
153. 6:14eliminate the evils that flow from the
154. 6:16excess of democracy Alexander Hamilton
155. 6:19delegate from New York said we are now
156. 6:21farming a republican government real
157. 6:23Liberty is not found in democracy we
158. 6:25incline too much to democracy we shall
159. 6:28soon shoot into a monarchy John Adams
160. 6:31one of the Giants of the American
161. 6:33Revolutionary period said democracy will
162. 6:36end we all contend with all endeavor to
163. 6:39pull down all and when by chance it
164. 6:42happens to get the upper hand for a
165. 6:44short time democracy will be revengeful
166. 6:46bloody and cruel speaking of pure
167. 6:50democracy in which the people by
168. 6:52majority vote act as their own laws
169. 6:54instead of electing representatives to
170. 6:56make laws James Madison said such
171. 7:00democracies have ever been incompatible
172. 7:03with personal security of the rights of
173. 7:05property a republic promises the cure
174. 7:08for which we are seeking Madison known
175. 7:11as the father of the Constitution knew
176. 7:13and said that enlightened men will not
177. 7:15always be at the helm of government to
178. 7:17serve as proper guardians of the public
179. 7:19weal he knew that unlimited political
180. 7:22power cannot safely be entrusted to the
181. 7:25nation's elected representatives to use
182. 7:27as a majority of them see fit because he
183. 7:29said a majority of a group of men is far
184. 7:33more likely to be tyrannical than one
185. 7:35man is in a democracy if a majority
186. 7:39should develop hatred for all blue-eyed
187. 7:42babies and order them eliminated the
188. 7:44babies could be legally
189. 7:46executed because whatever a majority
190. 7:48wants at any given moment his supreme
191. 7:51law of the land in a democracy how can
192. 7:55liberty be safeguarded against the
193. 7:56mindless soulless tyranny of majority
194. 7:58rule when government is founded on the
195. 8:01principle of majority rule
196. 8:03Jefferson answered that one in questions
197. 8:06of power let no more be heard of
198. 8:08confidence in man but bind him down from
199. 8:11mischief the chains of the Constitution
200. 8:12in short America was founded not as a
201. 8:16democracy but as a constitutional
202. 8:18republic we pledge allegiance to the
203. 8:21Republic for which our flag stands not
204. 8:23to a democracy the Constitution requires
205. 8:25a Republican form of government for all
206. 8:27states but does not mention democracy
207. 8:29and neither does the Declaration of
208. 8:31Independence or the Bill of Rights the
209. 8:32Constitution is a binding contract
210. 8:35enumerated limited powers which the
211. 8:38federal government can legally exercise
212. 8:40prohibiting it from exercising any power
213. 8:43not read it in the contract it denies
214. 8:46federal officials the power to do
215. 8:47whatever they claim to be necessary for
216. 8:49the general welfare federal action not
217. 8:52clearly authorized by the Constitution
218. 8:54is illegal even if approved by an
219. 8:57overwhelming majority of the people
220. 8:59because all the elastic powers of
221. 9:01government are left with the state's
222. 9:04ultimate power to change the organic
223. 9:06structure of government laws left with
224. 9:08the people but the means of making
225. 9:11changes amending the Constitution were
226. 9:13carefully prescribed to militate against
227. 9:15hasty unwise decisions by the people as
228. 9:19Benjamin Franklin left the Statehouse in
229. 9:21Philadelphia on the closing day of the
230. 9:23Constitutional Convention a woman asking
231. 9:26what kind of government the convention
232. 9:28had given America and Franklin replied a
233. 9:31republic if you can keep it very old and
234. 9:35very wise Franklin saw through the mists
235. 9:37of time to the day when Americans might
236. 9:40trade their freedom in a constitutional
237. 9:42republic for the promise of government
238. 9:44guaranteed equality and security in a
239. 9:46democracy and beyond that to the day
240. 9:50when democracy in evitable degenerates
241. 9:52in the dictatorship guaranteeing nothing
242. 9:55but poverty and serfdom for the people
243. 9:58that robs and
244. 9:59the American constitutional system
245. 10:02unique in history enabled Americans to
246. 10:05develop a backward continent into the
247. 10:08most magnificent nation at all time the
248. 10:11system was designed to prevent both
249. 10:12tyranny by government and reckless
250. 10:15rebellion by the people we must restore
251. 10:18it and keep it and what can you do
252. 10:21toward that end your job you who care
253. 10:25and understand is to help educate others
254. 10:28I suggest that you might find a
255. 10:30subscription to my report helpful the
256. 10:32dance book report on which these
257. 10:34broadcasts are based is set every week
258. 10:37through the mails and will reach you
259. 10:38long before the broadcast does it
260. 10:40contains documentation in details I
261. 10:42cannot put on the broadcast you can read
262. 10:45it make up your own mind pass it on to
263. 10:47others I think it may be an effective
264. 10:49tool for you to use to help educate and
265. 10:52activate others and only by this means
266. 10:56can we restore our Republic