FOUNDER'S GUIDE TO 'KNOCK DOWN, DRAG OUT' FIGHTING

 FOUNDER'S GUIDE TO 'KNOCK DOWN, DRAG OUT' FIGHTING

JUSTICE IS TRUTH IN ACTION - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - SUN. 1/10/2021

 

THE ABOVE FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, SAT./SUN. JAN. 9-10, 2021

By Aaron Alexander Zubia, He is a postdoctoral fellow at Furman University's Tocqueville Program.

 

    "Immanuel Kant once remarked that nothing great has ever been done without passion. But passion, when improperly managed, can do great harm. During the debate over the ratification of the Constitution in 1787- 88, the Federalist sought to manage public enthusiasm by enlisting the passion on the side of reason. They did so to unify the nation. And we can learn from them.

 

The Ratification debates of 1787 were colored by 'patriotic enthusiasms' verging on violent chaos.

    Americans like to think that the writing and ratification of the Constitution consisted of calm reflection and choice. But the ratification debates were, as the scholar Michael Faber recently put it, a "knock-down, drag-out fight. Elbridge Gerry, a delegate at the Federal Convention, was burned in effigy in Massachusetts. George Mason of Virginia, who had withheld his signature, was encouraged by the mayor of Alexandria to leave town shortly after his arrival, given the great threat to his personal safety.

 

    Mobs forced anti-Federalist in Pennsylvania to return to the state assembly and hurriedly set the date for the state's ratifying convention. The anti-federalist Richard Henry Lee wrote to Samuel Adams expressing disappointments that "the agitators of this new system"were resorting to mob violence to rush the ratification of the Constitution, "as the subject of Government were a business of passion, instead of cool, sober, and intense consideration. 

 

    Leading Federalists denounced the violence of the raging mob. One, writing in the New York Daily Advertiser under the pseudonym "Curtius" maintained that " an honest indignation of patriotism is often commendable : but when it flames a devouring enthusiasm ... philanthropy must sigh at the frailties of humanity." Public passions threaten public tranquility. The Federalist thereby had to decide how to manage the passions during the ratification debates. They opted not to suppress passions but to channel them toward common leaders (like George Washington and Benjamin Franklin) [ Maybe we can do that today by invoking our existing former Presidents of the U.S.A.] and a common cause (ratification) 

 

    Ideally, Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 1, the people would approach the question of ratification without bias, prejudice or distortion of passion, but "this is a thing more ardently to be wished than expected." ... Madison, Hamilton and John Jay, who wrote as "Publius" in the Federalist Papers, sought both to inform their readers about the details of the Constitution and to cultivate those passions conducive to liberty and order ... minimize the destructive - and divisive - passions that flow from faction. [the leftist Marxist control of the Democratic Party.] ..

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THOUGHTS ON THE INSURRECTION  AT CAPITOL

 

1. By Peggy Noonan, "Bring the Insurrectionist to Justice",   --- I agree with most.

 

2. By Catholic writer Dave Carlin: "Let's face facts: millions of hardcore Trump supporters are potential fascists. They have anti-democrat hearts and minds."

 

Response: "I differ. Possibly at least 5 % are. The ones at the CAPITOL must be brought to Justice and will be. The rest of Trump supporters must not be smeared and attacked. The Culture of Death will be after them. Why? Most of them are for the Culture of Life. Because of the virus, the March For LIfe in January, should be postponed for a similar date in the months ahead.

 

3. I propose on behalf of the 18 of 19 Bell Weather Counties in U.S.A.;  they predicted since the Nixon presidency who will President on Nov. 3rd, 2020, they predicted Trump as President. In fairness to them, they need to find out what happened in this election. Their thoughts will not go away.

George H. Kubeck