Boehner
resignation: Chance to save Americans' sovereignty, Exclusive: Alan Keyes calls on House to choose
a new speaker outside of its ranks, 9/27/15, WND
As WND’s readers know,
I’ve been working on a column that details a strategy for the 2016 election
with which the American people can reclaim leadership initiative they are
supposed to have in America’s political life. That strategy involves, first of
all, taking the Constitution as it is written as the basis for
understanding our duty as citizens.
“We the people” are supposed to have the
political initiative. Thanks to the elitist faction’s two-party sham, we have
surrendered that initiative to an elitist clique. Jimmy
Carter calls it an oligarchy. I call it the elitist faction. Whatever the term, it means that
we no longer have the republican form of self-government our Constitution
intends to guarantee.
I’m writing today
because John Boehner’s announcement that he will resign as speaker of the House
offers an opportunity for Americans of goodwill to recapture the initiative
right now, in a key period before the 2016 election. But to understand this
opportunity, we must return to the Constitution as it is written.
As the Constitution is
written, three different constituencies are involved in the elections for
office under the United States: One for the U.S. Senate, consisting of the
people as they are divided among the states, respectively; one for the U.S.
House, which is the people as they are divided among congressional districts
drawn within the boundaries of the states respectively; and one for the
presidency of the United States, which involves the people of the whole nation,
but through the medium of electors chosen by the people of the states,
respectively, in a manner decided by the state governments, but excluding from
their choice any officer or trustee of the U.S. government.
These three
constituencies choose the electors for the three officers who preside over the
three branches of government – the president of the U.S., the president of the
U.S. Senate and the speaker of the House. The national electors choose both the
president and the vice president, in that order, and in two separate votes.
Whoever wins the majority wins, but in the event of a tie, the House chooses
the president and the Senate chooses the vice president.
But for the machinations
of the present elitist faction party system, the Constitution’s arrangements
would result in three presiding officers with three potentially difference
bases of support. The president would have a national base of support that
looks to the people of the whole nation, taking account of (and cultivating)
individuals they might trust to represent them in the Electoral College. The
president of the U.S. Senate (who also serves as vice president), would have a
national base of support that looks to the states, respectively (though in the
better original conception of the U.S. Senate, prior to passage of the 17th
Amendment, the state governments represented the voters); and the U.S. House
would have a national constituency of the people in their congressional
districts apportioned among the states according to population.
Boehner’s resignation
offers an opportunity to create a national rallying point for the constituency
that is anxious to preserve the sovereignty of the American people, and the
Constitution they have ordained and established to implement and secure it. But
to seize the opportunity will take a congressional majority consciously intent
on rallying this constituency, and willing to break away from the
anti-constitutional patterns of thought and action that are presently hurtling
the people’s constitutional sovereignty toward the abyss.
The House has the
initiative when it comes to challenging and reining in abuses by the other
branches of the U.S. government. Those abuses are now rampant. Indeed, the
fundamental constraints and premises intended to thwart such abuses have never
before been so cavalierly defied and disregarded as they are today. The House
majority needs to confront this crisis in a way that convinces the body politic
that these abuses will end. The House majority needs to lift up a voice in no
way identified with the discredited maneuvers by which the elitist faction has
consistently betrayed the Constitution’s moral principles, provisions and
institutions. It needs to lift up a representative of America’s decent heart,
capable of articulating its still Revolutionary spirit against the elitist
faction’s efforts to reverse it.
House members may follow
the usual pattern of catering to the ambitions of their own membership. Or,
given the unprecedented threat to the sovereignty of the American people, they
could do what the Constitution allows. The Constitution nowhere specifies that
the speaker of the House must be a member of that body. So the members of the
House could open up the field of possible candidates to include whichever
American they believe will best defend America’s sovereignty. Instead of doing
what the corrupt politics of our time allows, they can do what the vital
interest of our nation requires.
People are calling it an
opportunity to elect a conservative. But in fact it’s an opportunity to elect a
true American who will help the House to begin the restoration of our republic.
It’s an opportunity to break the discredited mold of Washington “business as
usual,” and at the same time give Americans a new sense of the ingenious wisdom
contained in the actual words and logic of the Constitution they are sworn to
preserve.
By choosing a speaker
outside of their ranks, they would also dramatically demonstrate that they are
willing to set aside their individual political agendas and ambitions, that
they have no thought but to serve and preserve the common good of all our
people, that they have no aim but to mobilize the nation’s best in a determined
effort to hurl back the treacherous assault on its sovereignty and
Constitution.
With this demonstration
of resourceful statesmanship, the House majority will declare that it’s time to
restore America politics to its rightful basis in American principle the words
and intent of the Constitution. But more than that, they will, by their
example, prove that it’s possible to do so. They will thus offer solid
hope to all Americans of goodwill whose political ambition is simply to serve
and perpetuate their country’s rightful liberty. And they will give proof of
what our nation’s success was, from the beginning, intended to confirm: That all
the peoples of the earth, whom America now truly represents, may have not only
the unalienable right, but the capacity, character and goodwill to
reap the blessings of liberty God has sown into our nature.
Source:http://www.wnd.com/2015/09/non-congressman-to-be-next-speaker-of-the-house/
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