Do The People Have Any Say In The Government Anymore ?????

Of The People…By The People….For The People

WHAT HAPPENNED ?

Introduction

A new nation striving to make a new start designed a means of providing a government designed of the people, by the people  and for the people : conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.  This new nation devised a Declaration of Independence that granted them their freedom from Britain and thus became what is now known as the United States of America.

It started as a mere 13 states that endured much bloodshed to gain this much revered freedom. Little do we realize today the great sacrifices which were made to achieve this goal. The government was set up in such a way that the people actually had control of the government and all aspects of  it’s functions. When a new change of any kind was proposed the people had the right to vote their opinion on their acceptance of this new change. Where did this right vanish to and how? Why and how did we allow the government the right to dictate to us what is good for us without our having any say in the matter? We devised the government to assure us that our rights be protected, not dictate to us what they feel is good for us.

Several statements in this book are taken from such crucial documents that this country was based on such as the Declaration of Independence and the Gettysburg Address, two very important documents of which this nation was based on by our forefathers. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that ALL men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the persuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights. Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed (we the people). That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and to institute new Government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient cause; and according all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former System of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over the States.

Taking into account the afore mentioned words, it appears that this nation has been redirected from the direction on which that nation was founded. We The People no longer exists. Take a look at the world around you. Daily events prove that we are no longer a nation for the people. When was the last time you remember having the ability to vote on an issue in congress that effects our rights? Can’t place a date on that time correct? Where did it go? When did the government make this change? Why does congress has the ability to  discuss changes to our lives and make those changes without first proposing the changes to the people and allowing the people to decide if the change is good for them or not? Doesn’t happen! We are told of these changes after they vote them into law without our knowledge and we have no choice but to abide by them. Fair? I don’t think so.

Our government has been based on money intake. Read your newspaper and every day you will find that congressional decisions have been influenced by corporate lobbyists because of the money and contributions made to congress by these corporations. Will these changes affect us? Most likely. Will they bring prosperity to the people? Probably not. Do the people speak up? No, because the people have been programmed to accept the inevitable and forget they have the right to oppose changes damaging to them. The people that we have elected to the government offices are our employees if you sit back and ascertain this. They are being paid by taxes that WE pay, well most of their income anyway. We can’t count all the perks and donations. I doubt that this would ever be disclosed accurately anyway.

We the people of the United States of America have found it better to sit back and keep our mouths shut and just live what we feel is our means stated to us by the government. We don’t want to get INVOLVED. The is the Why and How our government got it’s strength. When was the last time you had your employer double your salary? I can truthfully expect never. Congress managed to double their income as well as double the President’s income at OUR expense. Did we have the option to express our opinion to this pay increase? I don’t recall it being put to the people vote, because I for one would have voted against it. They were being over paid to begin with. Check out their retirement plan. It is almost as much as their regular salary. How many people do you know that have a retirement plan of at least ninety thousand dollars a year or more? No one I can think of. Why is our national debt in the trillions of dollars? Read your paper or watch the news on television.

Chapter 1

Creation

Our government was created by our forefathers to insure that every man is created equal and that the said government be of the people, by the people, for the people. The government was devised by the people to provide a means of governing but allowing the people the right to oversee that the officials elected to office do their jobs as expected or retain the right to call for replacement.

Constitution for the United States of America

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosperity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Article I

All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

No person shall be a Representative  who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, be an inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respected Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of Ten Years, in such manner as they shall by Law direct. The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative.

What this means is that the states with higher populations shall receive more tax revenue from the government and shall be deemed a higher number of representatives. This only proves that the point is that the larger populated states have more say in government issues. Would you consider this equal representation, I don’t. The smaller populated states have to abide by the ruling of the representatives of the larger populated states, like it or not.

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years, and each Senator shall have one Vote.

Immediately after they shall be assembled in Consequence of the first Election, they shall be divided as equally as may be into three Classes. The Seats of the Senators of the first Class shall be vacated at the Expiration of the second Year, of the second Class at the Expiration of the fourth Year, and the third Class at the Expiration of the sixth Year, so that one third may be chosen every second Year.

This simply means that we have the ability to vote for Senators every two years to keep a change in the Senate if we so choose. The Senators and Representatives together must past a bill , then present it to the President for final approval before it becomes a law. The Senators and Representatives are voted into office by the citizens of the United States so this is why I state that they are essentially employed by the people.