Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 12:06:34 PM
"You'll find a number of states that are treated differently than other states. That's what legislating is all about." -Dingy Harry
Re: http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelGerson/2009/12/23/public_policy_as_public_corruption
American exceptionalism is based on the world view that birthed a system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and the several states with delimited self-governing authority, where the boundaries are placed on the central authority: its powers being specific and few with respect to the states. This is federalism as defined by the American Founders.
Behind federalism is the political philosophy in which the member states are bound together under the rule of law known as the Constitution. The Latin for covenant is “foedus” from which the word federal is derived.
Senator Reid has a different understanding of federal, which is a perversion of federalism. He would see us return to feudalism.
Feudalism can be defined as a social organization created by exchanging grants in return for formal oaths of allegiance; or in its modern sense, it is the exchanging of public money for critical votes. “Quid pro quo” is another name for bribery, but the insidiousness in this case is that our money is being used for the bribe to return us to serfdom.
Federalism is the antithesis of feudalism, because it recognizes the God given rights of men as His image bearers to life, liberty and property. Feudalism has no such view of man, but sees him as a serf to be lorded over. The open Bible has set us free from the tyranny of the elite, whether it be from church or state. God forbid that we should return to it.