- 25 Sep 2014 02:57
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Short answer;
Orestes Brownson.
Longer answer; the world is what it is, a world of republics, and the American Republic is worth preserving and conserving, it need not be 'democratic' however.
1. we need to repeal the 17th amendment, for example. (It is my view that article four of the 14th Amendment nullifies the 17th Amendment from the get-go, the only way the Federal general government can ensure that the particular States governments have a republican form of government is ensuring the election of US Senators by the individual State Legislatures of the States.)
We need not be slaves to the Founding Father's ideologies either; the Constitution is best read in the light of Natural Law and the Declaration of Independence. As such, the USA should be neither 'Capitalist' nor 'Socialist' but be under the 'American System' of Hamilton, Clay, Carey, and Lincoln. As Orestes Brownson once said; the poor need taken care of; the rich can take care of themselves". True American conservatism is a true 'Third Way', unlike any other Ideology in the world, and for good reason; America's Constitution cannot be compared to any other past or present, and indeed is a model for other nations. America's destiny is to complete the political goals of Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian civilization and find the dialectical balance between Liberty and Authority, General and Particular, the Individual and Society, and Religion and State. We have the tools we only need Americans.... America confounds all political theories and with our truly Providential system, we can advance the progress of all Mankind.
But.... We've lost our way. Never fully understanding ourselves, like unreflective unreasoning children, we borrowed Strange and utopian European political ideologies in working through our own, Including Burkean 'Conservatism', and the System has broken down as a matter of course. In the 19th century we faced the political barbarism of Confederate Libertarianism, now we face the political barbarism of social Collectivism of the Liberal Federal State.
Let us find our way back as Americans, and Conservatives in America can save the fading Light of Civilization for future ages.
Orestes Brownson.
Longer answer; the world is what it is, a world of republics, and the American Republic is worth preserving and conserving, it need not be 'democratic' however.
1. we need to repeal the 17th amendment, for example. (It is my view that article four of the 14th Amendment nullifies the 17th Amendment from the get-go, the only way the Federal general government can ensure that the particular States governments have a republican form of government is ensuring the election of US Senators by the individual State Legislatures of the States.)
We need not be slaves to the Founding Father's ideologies either; the Constitution is best read in the light of Natural Law and the Declaration of Independence. As such, the USA should be neither 'Capitalist' nor 'Socialist' but be under the 'American System' of Hamilton, Clay, Carey, and Lincoln. As Orestes Brownson once said; the poor need taken care of; the rich can take care of themselves". True American conservatism is a true 'Third Way', unlike any other Ideology in the world, and for good reason; America's Constitution cannot be compared to any other past or present, and indeed is a model for other nations. America's destiny is to complete the political goals of Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian civilization and find the dialectical balance between Liberty and Authority, General and Particular, the Individual and Society, and Religion and State. We have the tools we only need Americans.... America confounds all political theories and with our truly Providential system, we can advance the progress of all Mankind.
But.... We've lost our way. Never fully understanding ourselves, like unreflective unreasoning children, we borrowed Strange and utopian European political ideologies in working through our own, Including Burkean 'Conservatism', and the System has broken down as a matter of course. In the 19th century we faced the political barbarism of Confederate Libertarianism, now we face the political barbarism of social Collectivism of the Liberal Federal State.
Let us find our way back as Americans, and Conservatives in America can save the fading Light of Civilization for future ages.