The Emerging Constitution

The purpose of having a Convention of States is not to force a balanced budget on the federal government.  The real goal is to pass an entirely new constitution for the U.S. Here’s a little more background on the Newstates Constitution.  This is a review on Amazon for the book.

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061282251/sr=1-2/qid=1126203590/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8 <http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061282251/sr=1-2/qid=1126203590/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1126203590&sr=1-2> &me=&qid=1126203590&sr=1-2

 

The Emerging Constitution is an excellent book, written over 40 years ago, by former New Dealer, Professor Rexford Tugwell. He, Professor Tugwell, favors a new U.S. Constitution--The Newstates Constitution!!

 

Professor Tugwell was one of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "brain trust" that was "created" to end the two Great Depressions-- the Hoover Depression of 1929-1932, and the equally severe ROOSEVELT DEPRESSION of 1937-1939.

 

Tugwell was one who called for, in 1936, for the end of State governments, and instead favored a UNITARY national governmental structure, including GUN CONTROL, and a disarmed populace. ALSO: Tugwell favored the a "United States Police Force" to handle ALL local crime, thus over-riding the powers of local State, County, and City police forces.

 

The Book Review, that I am writing about--'The Emerging Constitution' is prophetic as we have seen the rise, under both Democratic and Republican Presidents, of the IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY!!

 

Looking at Tugwell's book-- "The Emerging Constitution": Tugwell favor a President, popularly-elected for a 9-Year Term, AND with no term limits. This new "strong-man" President would appoint 75% of the U.S. Senate for his/her 9-year term. (Sounds like the 2008 new Constitution of Myanmar (Burma))

 

There would be fewer bureaucracies, but there would be SIX, not just three, BRANCHES of the Federal government.

 

A. The Executive Branch--'The Presidency'. In effect, a tightly- controlling Super-President

 

B. The Legislative Branch--the Presidentially-appointed Senate, and a House of Representatives made up 400-600 Congresspersons elected AT LARGE--by a controlled popular-electorate—whose qualifications to vote and run for Office, would be controlled by a National Court of Rights and Responsibilities, and 10-15 Regional Newstates Courts of Rights and Responsibilities. Citizenship Rights would be under constant "review", also, in terms of participation of a REGULATED voting citizenry, ALSO under review by "Courts of Rights and Responsibility" on a citizen-by-citizen "case review".

 

As was stated earlier in this book review, the President--

actually the new and more powerful Super-President would APPOINT 75% of the United States Senate--FOR LIFE--without a popular vote, and the Super-President would have the power to hire-and-fire members of this new Presidentially-controlled Senate.

 

C. The Judicial Branch, with a Super-Chief Justice with "special powers". The Chief-Principle or Super-Chief Justice would have the Power to Issue Pardons, like the new Super-President, but only after "consultation" with the Super President. The Super-Chief Justice could be dismissed without any Congressional "over-sight", by the National-State Super-President.

 

D. The Planning Branch---with 3, 6, 9, and 12 year National Economic Plans---similar to the 4-Year Plan of 1936 Germany, and the now- defunct Soviet Russian 5, 7, and 10 years plans. The Tugwell proposals are nothing less than nationally-planned national-state corporatism over businesses, corporations, and conglomerates.

Unions would be controlled also, to "merge" with the National-State economic 3, 6, 9, and 12 year plans, similar to fascist and communist "labor fronts".

 

E. The Regulatory Branch----A SUPER PLANNING and CONTROL "agency" working "in concert" with the Planning Branch, on National-State, Newstates, and Local-County bureaucratic regulations, fulfill the "goals" of the 3, 6, 9, and 12 year economic plans.

 

F. The Electoral Branch----TO "supervise" National and State Elections. National and State political parties would be "under review" to "determine" if any political party did not measure-up to national standards of the number of votes earned in any National- State or Newstates elections.

 

==========================================

 

In Tugwell's book, there would not be 50 States, but 10-to-13 super-states, called NEWSTATES!! Corporate-Statism to cut down on 50 small state bureaucracies, to instead be with the National-State Government in controlling costs through

"consolidation" of State-Power.

 

Ironically, Venezuela's strong-man "president", Hugo Chavez is using almost the same schema to create fourteen Presidentially-appointed "regional vice-presidents" to "over-ride" the power of Venezuela's 37 State-provinces--which were ELECTED by the People by Secret Ballot.

 

This book, Tugwell's 'The Emerging Consitution', that would totally scrap most of the Bill of Rights guaranteed of/by the present circa-1787 U.S. Constitution, would do so by declaring "states of national emergencies", and to "temporarily-suspend" the "rights-granted" under the Newstates Constitution. (The 1866 Ex-Parte Milligan decision of the U.S. Supreme Court would be "reviewed", and probably be scapped, as would the safe-guards of Posse Committaus).

 

The would be "The National Sharing Fund"--if you will a National Sales Income Tax---1% and 2% on most Individuals and Families, and 5% on the "wealthy"--whatever the Super-President decides, and the new Super-President could lower and raise taxes WITHOUT going through the new Super-Congress--by using the powers to declare by himself/herself-- "states of national emergencies", and without Congressional/Senatorial 'over-sight'.

 

This book, Tugwell, sounds good to many fed up with "divided government", but it should warn people that "absolutio et absolutium est"--or about "absolute power tends to corrupt-absolutely".