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Civil War Begins When the Constitutional Order Breaks Down
Civil War Begins When the Constitutional Order Breaks Down | The American Conservative
November 4th 2019 | Michael Vlahos
A Georgetown Institute poll finds that two-thirds of us believe we are edging closer “to the brink of a civil war.” Yet Americans cannot properly analyze this “gathering storm.” We lack a framework, a lexicon, and the historical data (from other civil wars) to see clearly what is happening to us.
Here is a quick template for how we might more usefully decipher how this nation gets to another civil war. It is arranged as a short series of questions: 1) What is civil war? 2) Why do political-constitutional orders sometimes breakdown, rather than simply transform in response to change? 3) How is violence essential to constitutional and political resolution? 4) How close is the U.S. to such a break down, and its consequences? Civil war is, at root, a contest over legitimacy. Legitimacy—literally the right to make law — is shorthand for the consent of the citizens and political parties to abide by the authority of a constitutional order. Civil war begins when this larger political compact breaks down.
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Interesting article. Those who have understood the importance of fidelity to the Constitution, as written by its Framers, explained in The Federalist, and revered by learned jurists and ordinary citizens, must step forward to restore some common understanding among the rising generations, or liberty is, indeed, in great peril.
Historically, Greek city/states that tried democracy, often failed because of the absolute majority rules commitment. once a party got into the majority position immediately went after the opposition; killing them, imprisonment, property confiscation, etc. that is exactly what the Progressive Marxist Socialist Democrats are doing now. ‘We do not need a crime to impeach and remove’ is a good case in point. We have been successful up to this date is our Constitution and the protection that it affords. If this charade goes ahead then we do have some serious issues to deal with. Irritants to an oyster make pearls. Well we have a lot of pearls to make and very soon.
If a PMS/DSA, AOC type gains power through the Presidency and has the Congress behind them, they will enact the Green New Deal, massive taxes, and kill both the First and Second Amendments, etc. That will be the trigger for 'Fly Over' America to secede.
Today, in the end of the second decade of the Twenty-first Century, when confronted with a decision between individual freedom and certain slavery, otherwise known as liberty and tyranny, Americans who prefer freedom must be armed with ideas and principles which are "self-evident" and plain. Otherwise, they cannot fend off the onslaught of the "counterfeit ideas" of Progressive ideologues who seem determined to distort and destroy the great United States Constitution, and to obliterate the principles and ideas of liberty incorporated into its protections.
