As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
In reading Thomas Hart Benton’s 30 Years View, I thought that the Carl Sandburg 4 volume history of Abraham Lincoln was brain expanding, but Senator Benton makes that read like a Dick and Jane book.
The 30 years have always fascinated me by the silence they have wrought in education and how this period saw the weakest executives in America between the towering Monroe and Jackson to the mountain of Abraham Lincoln. Everything though which Abraham Lincoln quoted though was right out of President James Monroe.
If I were to ask you, what is behind President Donald Trump seizing Venezuelan resource in American authority, you would get it wrong. If I were to ask you, what was the source of the American Civil War in State’s Rights, you would get that answer wrong too, because the it all lays in the one soul of a president on domestic and foreign policy intertwined. Yes you know the Monroe Doctrine, but you have no idea of the Monroe Treatise which was the foundation which put into effect the US Constitution we know today, which Abraham Lincoln cemented together with blood and gunpowder.
I will ask you what was the issue which started all of this? Was it slavery? Not in the least. Was it a war? Not at all. The road which President Donald Trump is on, is a literal road which James Monroe built. This might require a bit for you to wrap your mind around, but the issue which started all of this, was the necessity of the United States to have a unifying thread, and that was the Federal jurisdiction of roads in America which were already there inside the States.
It was a road and two canals, which by an Act of Congress funded the money to begin surveys for national routes throughout the United States.
I will meet you on the other side, and as you probably think this is not important, just remember we have been burning powder and spilling blood over this issue since 1860 AD in the year of our Lord.
This is the struggle of the Monroe Doctrine and the Monroe Treatise.
The Cumberland road, and the Chesa-
peake and Ohio canal, were the two prominent
objects discussed ; but the design extended to a
general system, and an act was finally passed, in-
tended to be annual and permanent, to appropri-
ate $30,000 to make surveys of national routes.
Mr. Monroe signed this bill as being merely for
the collection of information, but the subject
drew from him the most elaborate and thorough-
ly considered opinion upon the general question
which has ever been delivered by any of our
statesmen.
Upon passage of this act to survey for routes, President Monroe found it so important to explain the necessity of what had taken place and the Constitutional Authority for it, that he laid out a treatise of 6 points from Post Offices, Commerce and War. All the things Abraham Lincoln based his war on the Confederates.
The problem which was involved in this treatise is as Senator Benton stated, the more that President Monroe wrote, the more he found that the overlaps did not provide authority, and in fact disproved the authority which had just been enacted.
All of these infringements on our Rights, are generated from that implied powers, which became enacted powers. It became a Federal weave of necessity which overshadowed the 10 Amendment. The struggle began taken up by John C. Calhoun concerning States Rights, which would fester in the northeast control of America at odds with the South.
Remarkably, a treaty with Spain over Florida, ceded Texas to Spain just before this, and it waxed in morality in not one Southern State at the time raised an issue with one major component, and that was slavery as not going to be established nor extend north or across the Mississippi River from that point on.
It was not until that issue was weaponized by the northeast interests with Europeans against the South for a civil war, that the issue of slavery became an issue.
Meet you on the other side.
These were, first^ the right to establish post-
offlces and post-roads ; second, to declare war ;
third, to regulate commerce among the States ;
fourth, the power to pay the debts and provide
for the common defence and general welfare of
the United States ; fifth, to make all laws ne-
cessary and proper to carry into effect the grant-
ed (enumerated) powers ; sixth, from the power
to dispose of, and make all needful rules and re-
gulations respecting the territory or other pro-
perty of the United States. Upon this long
enumeration of these claimed sources of power,
Mr. Monroe well remarked that their very mul-
tiplicity was an argument against them, and that
each one was repudiated by some of the advo-
cates for each of the others :
This is what is remarkable in this examination, that what lays at the center of this is the Federal Government. It was provided limited authority not granted the States or the People and yet this leviathan of taxes, began to understand the threat it faced from invasion by foreigners, of States progressing their Rights which would impede the Federal, and how foreign and domestic actions, would pen in the Federal in the limits of it not being able to project power against other nations and that it was not going to overwhelm States to intimidate them.
In order to protect itself, the Federal in the logic of James Monroe, struck first and second. First the Monroe Doctrine kept Europeans out of thee Americas, so the United States would not be invaded. Second, in order to maintain authority in the powers that mattered in communication and taxes, the Federal would produce an expanding authority over the States.
The founder of American domestic and foreign Constitutional Authority is President James Monroe.
Thus did Mr. Monroe state the question in its
practical bearings, traced to their legitimate re-
sults, and the various assumptions of power, and
difficulties with States or individuals which they
involved; and the bare statement which he
made — the bare presentation of the practical
working of the system, constituted a complete
argument against it, as an invasion of State
rights, and therefore unconsittutional, and, he
might have added, as complex and unmanage-
able by the federal government, and therefore
inexpedient. But, after stating the question, he
examined it under every head of constitutional
derivation under which its advocates claimed the
power, and found it to be granted by no one of
them, and virtually prohibited by some of them.
It is in effect, America has been governed by an Establishment Clause, which does not exist in the Constitution, but was enabled by Supreme Court rulings, thereby legitimizing something which has benefited for the most part Americans and the World, when there are Presidents as Jackson, Lincoln, McKinley, Roosevelt, Reagan and Trump. When there are despots like Wilson, Roosevelt, Bush, Clinton and Obama, Americans become hunted and the world at large bathed in blood.
President Trump has been far too reserved compared to Abraham Lincoln in this Insurrection in America, but has been adept as Richard Nixon in playing the Monroe Card on the global stage successfully.
I personally love the dichotomy of these infernal Constitutional dilemmas in discovering the source and reasoning by necessity which began them as the way in is a pit fallen into and there never is a way out once in as the pit keeps digging deeper.
This is another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
Nuff Said
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