Remaking America by George Shollenberger, Idea XVIII (Correcting the Three Branches of the U.S. Government)

Remaking America is an important proposal of President Obama because the three branches of the U.S. government have never functioned as the founders expected and as the founding documents require. The dysfunctions of the three branches developed when different ideologies developed by the new and more permanent political parties, which have sought national power through the national government.

These political powers began to grow only after Lincoln was assassinated, when the national government turned away from the ideology of the founders, and when the Declaration of Independence was viewed by lawyers only as an authority of war. In my blog 2/08/09, I show that the Declaration of Independence is a higher idea than war and includes many other authorities. I view the Declaration as the highest law of the USA.

These political powers grew when the two parts of the Union, Society and Government, were destroyed even though our founders installed John Locke’s social contract theory over the social contract theories of Hobbes and Rousseau. By killing the U.S. social contract, the national government became sovereign and the States were given Rights, even though a State is only a territory. In Locke’s contract theory, human Rights are given to the national government in exchange for securing the people. But the security given to U.S. citizens by the national government differs for these political parties.

By destroying Locke’s social contract in the USA, the future security of the USA becomes an unknown, the social contracts among citizens no longer exist. Without a social contract, the US economy develops ‘free market economy. This economy increases human greed develops an irrational rich class, develops a crime culture, develops a drug culture, develops economic depressions, and loses its international leadership.

Guesses will not explain today’s banking and industry bailouts and today’s depression. One might look in a mirror for some answers. But a person does not study the history of America and do not become aware of the failures of many fields of thought today, a person must be satisfied with a life in the unknown, a life that is not on the good side of human life.