My Politics
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Thomas Jefferson to John Adams,
1787. ME 6:370
"[The] President seems a bad edition of a Polish King. He may be elected from four years to four years, for life. Reason and experience prove to us, that a chief magistrate, so continual, is an office for life. When one or two generations shall have proved that this is an office for life, it becomes, on every occasion, worthy of intrigue, of bribery, of force, and even of foreign interference. It will be of great consequence to France and England to have America governed by a Galloman or Angloman. Once in office, and possessing the military force of the Union, without the aid or check of a council, he would not be easily dethroned, even if the people could be induced to withdraw their votes from him. I wish that at the end of the four years, they had made him forever ineligible a second time."
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I am a Jeffersonian and an anti Federalist, I am also a devout advocate and supporter of the principles and laws set forth in our Constitution by our founding fathers primarily Thomas Jefferson. By that I mean that I am strongly opposed to a centralized big government. I am totally committed to the restoration of full sovereignty rights to all states of the Union. I deem it absolutely vital and crucial to reduce the present size and power of our government by no less then 60%, if we are to once and for all extinguish the threat of oppression and totalitarianism from ever taking root in America. For it is the people NOT! the government who are the true power and rulers of our country, and it is the government who are subjects to the people and NOT the other way around. I also believe that we must dissolve the executive powers of the President, and transfer all over to Congress as it was before on September 5, 1774 . The presidential office has become an office of almost unlimited powers, and ...WILL!. very soon become an office for life. I would like to quote a passage made by Thomas Jefferson when he reflected his concerns regarding the Presidential office, and the dangers this office poses to our beloved Republic and our way of government:
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Thomas Jefferson to John Adams,
1787. ME 6:370
"[The] President seems a bad edition of a Polish King. He may be elected from four years to four years, for life. Reason and experience prove to us, that a chief magistrate, so continual, is an office for life. When one or two generations shall have proved that this is an office for life, it becomes, on every occasion, worthy of intrigue, of bribery, of force, and even of foreign interference. It will be of great consequence to France and England to have America governed by a Galloman or Angloman. Once in office, and possessing the military force of the Union, without the aid or check of a council, he would not be easily dethroned, even if the people could be induced to withdraw their votes from him. I wish that at the end of the four years, they had made him forever ineligible a second time."
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