Without "checks and balances" via laws of a higher order, freedom leads to anarchy just as law and order without freedom is the very definition of tyranny.  The key factor is the "higher order" that frames "Higher Power" at the heart of God government... or by default, the lower order that characterizes the dark side of the sinister force will assert its love of power at the expense of the power of love - the Higher Power of Holy Spirit (LOVE-in-action) at the interactive interface heart of God government.

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The Constitution's key to the balance of power in government is the checks and balances between the Executive, Judicial and Legislative branches of government... which is to say, checks and balances between the "love of power" (Executive branch) and the power of love "of, by and for the people" (Legislative branch) with the wisdom (discernment) to adjudicate the difference (Judicial branch), knowing when to delineate (divide) with power or transcend boundaries (cohese) with love.

       "Where love rules, there is no will to power.
And where power predominates, there love is lacking.
            The one is the shadow of the other."
                            - Carl Gustav Jung

Modern psychology of the "higher mental" (Christic) nature follows the first laws affirming the constitution of first principles framed by universal symbols that are the quintessential "pure geometry" archetypes of meaning, value and purpose for understanding the natural laws of the universe in regard to these "checks and balances" framed by the LOVE Model:

Law of the One (spherical consc. of the "O"),
AFFIRMATION... of the Spirit of the Law

Law of the Two-in-One (linear consc. of the "L"),
CONFIRMATION... that one understands the Law

Law of the Three-in-One (synergized trinity of the "V"),
DETERMINATION... the will for the Law-in-action

Law of the Four-in-One (integrated wholEness of the "E"),
INTEGRATION... of all the above to fulfill the Law.

The Law of the One has always been the domain of true spirituality at the heart of God government.  At-one-ment  (atonement) focuses the worth-ship and value of one's attention on a living God of divine Love, holy compassion, loving kindness, etc. that is for-giving (love-in-action).  The centering and connecting to this frequency of holiness - a golden ratio algorithm of the heart beat that occurs when one is in this frequency - is the goal of spiritual meditation of all who are on the path of evolutionary ascent.  It is the "mountaintop experience" of nirvana that characterizes the process of being "born again".  And it is the correct role of media as would mediate our unity -- with divine love -- amidst our diversity. 

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God government in any communications community thus ordains divine order with divine love.  It reflects and perfects the process of "come into unity" with a living God of spiritual Being-in-Love at the heart of enlightened interactive communications.  And it defines and refines REAL community -- versus virtual or pseudo community -- by way of the holy spirit of LOVE-in-action that raises the standard of conscience at the heart of the interactive LOVE-centric "TeLeComm process".

 

This "TLC with a special LOVE" is THE PROCESS that involves and evolves our individual and collective consciousness of the cosmic law and universal language of LOVE.  This is the golden rule/law language that governs the learning process, creative process and healing process -- the processes of consciousness -- at the archetypal foundation of "self/God government".  It is this TeLeComm PROCESS that will define, refine and "combine" (synergize) our God-given gifts and talents so they will shine at the heart of the New "Next" Economy -- the economics of abundance -- based on abundant LOVE.

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Perversion of the Law of the One is the denial of love - the sense of separation from a living God of Love - that creates "evil" as an "energy veil" (e-veil) and thus rationalizes and justifies the suffering and "sin" of evil, fear, terror and war... "that good may come of it."  That's a deal with the "devil" - the "deified evil" that deifies BS (Belief System) which calls evil "good" and endless war the "path to peace".

"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty
               as is cooperation with good."
                       -Mahatma Gandhi

An individual or civilization can rise no higher than its concept of "God is Love".  The higher the concept of the "CONSTITUTION"  of divine law language at the heart of God government, the greater the results.  Conversely, the greater the betrayal of that truly spiritual congruence as would mediate a living God of Love on Earth as in heaven... the greater the rationalizations and justifications of "stinking thinking" (paradigm paralysis) that replaces principle with pride and inverts the win/win selflessness "of, by and for the people" for the "we win/you lose" selfishness of a few who love power and the perks of prestige, profit, pleasure and power to own and control the physical and human resources of Earth.
 

Faith in a living God of Love-in-action is thus the "judgment" on the consciousness that has "fallen" to acceptance of love's ignore-ance, denial and betrayal.  This is the true meaning of "Armageddon" -- the battle of light and darkness -- as Earth's evolutions come-into-unity with the potential of instant-everywhere global village communications via the Internet... yet deny the loving ONENESS potential with endless fear-based division and warmongering... for lack of vision and commitment of, by and for, a LOVE-centric solution.
 

Perversion of the Law of "Two-in-One" (acceptance of differences with love) is duality rather than polarity; division rather than unity amidst diversity; divided and hanging separately rather than united and hanging together.  This perversion is what dominates all degenerate social, political and economic orders.  It's a win/lose social order rather than win/win.  It is the domain of organized greed and graft that follows from the love of power of a superrich power elite who would undermine the power of love in the mainstream masses... for power over them.
 

"America's downfall would include dual citizenship and promote divided loyalties. It would celebrate diversity over unity.  It would stress differences rather than similarities.  Diverse people worldwide are mostly engaged in hating each other, that is, when they are not killing each other." -Frosty Wooldridge, article at http://bigjweb.com/artman/publish/article_1590.shtml

 

BOTTOM LINE - THE POWERSHIFT
 

 The warfare in America today is largely informational and psychological... waged in the mass media to win the hearts and minds of the mass consciousness.  One side of this war, represented largely by the monopoly media, is a top-down, highly centralized downward disintegration debacle of dialectic disinformation, distress, dis-ease, division, death and dying; entropy.  The other side of this war, represented largely by the Internet and personal networks of friends and allies, is a highly decentralized, "bottom-up" (grass roots) integration spiral that organizes all information IN FORMATION along lines of greater LOVE; syntropy. 
 

The prevailing movement at present leads to disorder and dissonance.  The other movement leads to divine order and harmony along more enlightened lines that frame the constitution of universal law .
 

At the initiation of Aquarius, we have the choice to bring order to chaos -- harmony and healing to the dissonance and division.  As with the Piscean Master at the beginning of Pisces, the golden rule/law language set the matrix for guiding the prophesied millennium. The Blueprint For a Golden Age with holy compassion between the lines.
 

New America... worldwide.  May the Founders' vision be sustained in your consciousness, being and world.
 

-Christos
 

PS - Many are those who have lost faith and regard any reference to "God" or "God government" as so much religious "BS" (Belief System).  That's where discernment comes in.  The worst of all propaganda is that which makes government god with war powers that create and manage endless war for peace, calling evil "good" while blessing the collusion of big business with big government to create Big Brother fascism.  It is just such disconnected, unfaithful, unloving unreality - some would call insanity - that rationalizes, justifies and even "spiritualizes" the encroaching tyranny by waving the flag and invoking high-sounding words of freedom, security, patriotism and every godly virtue once held sacred.  So remember the spiritual intent of the framers of the Constitution, embodied in these quotes:

 

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary
in the same hands ... may justly be pronounced
the very definition of tyranny."
-James Madison, Federalist 47
 

NOTE:  It's critical to understand the biggest difference in the design parameters of successful representative government today versus 1776.  That would be the checks and balances "of all powers" that today would include the mainstream public media channels that shape our conscience and community... or lack of both.  This "4th estate" today is potentially the key to mediating "all powers" in the executive, judicial and executive.  How that is NOW possible is the most important story of the hour -- representing faith, hope and charity for mankind as no other -- that NO MAJOR MEDIA outlet has yet had the vision or courage to report with reason and honor.  Or as one true patriot recently wrote:

"Tyranny hates reason! Tyranny hates honor! This is because Tyranny is overcome by REASON and HONOR.  It is Folly and Fear that is the food of Tyrants. Tyranny thrives in a climate of dishonor and tolerance of that dishonor." - Reinhold Sommerstedt

Founding Father Thomas Jefferson said simply that,

"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God"

Mohatma Gandhi dealt with more recent tyranny by the same British Empire that occupied India without representation "of, by and for the people", just as in America in 1776.  And as Gandhi said so well:

"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt.
And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness.
Let individuals and nations ally themselves no longer with death, but with life;
Not with destruction, but with construction; Not with hatred and violence, but with
the creative miracles of LOVE."

For media reporters, see news release at
www.HEARTcom.org/NewsRelease1.htm

It should be common sense that the absence of truth and honor in a tyrannical government would invert true spirituality with religious BS (Belief Systems) that are politically correct but morally wrong.

"To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for
excluding God from more and more of our institutions every day,
 I say: The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written
to protect the people of this country from religious values;
it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny."
--Ronald Reagan

There is no more dangerous notion than that of America the Divine.
And the politicians are its priests.
- anonymous

The Religious "Belief System" (BS) in Patriotism, Right or Wrong:

"Religion is indeed a principal thing, but too much is worse
than none at all. The world abounds with knaves and villains,
but of all knaves, the religious knave is the worst;
and villainies acted under the cloak of religion
are the most detestable."
 -- wise ole' Benjamin Franklin

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully
as when they do it from religious conviction."
- Blaise Pascal
 

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NOTE: As usual, I've added quotes, comments and "color coding" to this article.  Enjoy - CR

How Tyranny Came to America

In the beginning the states were independent and sovereign. That is why they were called ?states?: a state was not yet thought of as a mere subdivision of a larger unit, as is the case now. The universal understanding was that in ratifying the Constitution, the 13 states yielded a very little of their sovereignty, but kept most of it.

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Those who were reluctant to ratify generally didn't object to the powers the Constitution delegated to the federal government. But they were suspicious: they wanted assurance that if those few powers were granted, other powers, never granted, wouldn't be seized too. In The Federalist, Hamilton and Madison argued at some length that under the proposed distribution of power the federal government would never be able to "usurp," as they put it, those other powers. Madison wrote soothingly in Federalist No. 45 that the powers of the federal government would be "few and defined," relating mostly to war and foreign policy, while those remaining with the states would be "numerous and indefinite," and would have to do with the everyday domestic life of the country.

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The word usurpation occurs numberless times in the ratification debates, reflecting the chief anxiety the champions of the Constitution had to allay. And as a final assurance, the Tenth Amendment stipulated that the powers not "delegated" to the federal government were "reserved" to the separate states and to the people.

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But this wasn't enough to satisfy everyone. Well-grounded fears persisted. And during the first half of the nineteenth century, nearly every president, in his inaugural message, felt it appropriate to renew the promise that the powers of the federal government would not be exceeded, nor the reserved powers of the states transgressed.

The federal government was to remain truly federal,
               with only a few specified powers,
rather than "consolidated," with unlimited powers.

The Civil War, or the War Between the States if you like, resulted from the suspicion that the North meant to use the power of the Union to destroy the sovereignty of the Southern states. Whether or not that suspicion was justified, the war itself produced that very result. The South was subjugated and occupied like a conquered country. Its institutions were profoundly remade by the federal government; the United States of America was taking on the character of an extensive, and highly centralized, empire. Similar processes were under way in Europe, as small states were consolidated into large ones, setting the stage for the tyrannies and gigantic wars of the twentieth century.

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Even so, the three constitutional amendment ratified after the war contain a significant clause: "Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation." Why is this significant? Because it shows that even the conquerors still understood that a new power of Congress required a constitutional amendment. It couldn't just be taken by majority vote, as it would be today. If the Congress then had wanted a national health plan, it would have begun by asking the people for an amendment to the Constitution authorizing it to legislate in the area of health care. The immediate purpose of the Fourteenth Amendment was to provide a constitutional basis for a proposed civil rights act.

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But the Supreme Court soon found other uses for the Fourteenth Amendment. It began striking down state laws as unconstitutional. This was an important new twist in American constitutional law. Hamilton, in arguing for judicial review in Federalist No. 78, had envisioned the Court as a check on Congress, resisting the illicit consolidation or centralization of power. And our civics books still describe the function of checks and balances in terms of the three branches of the federal government mutually controlling each other.

 

But in fact, the Court was now countermanding the state legislatures, where the principle of checks and balances had no meaning, since those state legislatures had no reciprocal control on the Court. This development eventually set the stage for the convulsive Supreme Court rulings of the late twentieth century, from Brown v. Board of Education to Roe v. Wade.

The big thing to recognize here is that the Court had become
the very opposite of the institution Hamilton and others had had in mind.
     Instead of blocking the centralization of power in the federal government,
the Court was assisting it.
 

The original point of the federal system was that the federal government would have very little to say about the internal affairs of the states. But the result of the Civil War was that the federal government had a great deal to say about those affairs in Northern as well as Southern states.

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Note that this trend toward centralization was occurring largely under Republican presidents. The Democrat Grover Cleveland was one of the last great spokesmen for federalism. He once vetoed a modest $10,000 federal grant for drought relief on grounds that there was no constitutional power to do it. If that sounds archaic, remember that the federal principle remained strong long enough that during the 1950s, the federal highway program had to be called a "defense" measure in order to win approval, and federal loans to college students in the 1960s were absurdly called "defense" loans for the same reason. The Tenth Amendment is a refined taste, but it has always had a few devotees.

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But federalism suffered some serious wounds during the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. First came the income tax, its constitutionality established by the Sixteenth Amendment; this meant that every U.S. citizen was now, for the first time, directly accountable to the federal government. Then the Seventeenth Amendment required that senators be elected by popular vote rather than chosen by state legislators; this meant that the states no longer had their own representation in Congress, so that they now lost their remaining control over the federal government.

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The Eighteenth Amendment, establishing Prohibition, gave the federal government even greater powers over the country's internal affairs. All these amendments were ominous signs that federalism was losing its traditional place in the hearts, and perhaps the minds, of Americans.

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But again, notice that these expansions of federal power were at least achieved by amending the Constitution, as the Constitution itself requires. The Constitution doesn't claim to be a "living document."  It is written on paper, not rubber.

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In fact the radicals of the early twentieth century despaired of achieving socialism or communism as long as the Constitution remained. They regarded it as the critical obstacle to their plans, and thought a revolution would be necessary to remove it. As The New Republic wrote: "To have a socialist society we must have a new Constitution." That's laying it on the line!

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Unfortunately, the next generation of collectivists would be less candid in their contempt for the federal system. Once they learned to feign devotion to the Constitution they secretly regarded as obsolete, the laborious formality of amendment would no longer be necessary. They could merely pretend that the Constitution was on their side. After Franklin Roosevelt restaffed the Supreme Court with his compliant cronies, the federal government would be free to make up its own powers as it went along, thanks to the notion that the Constitution was a malleable "living document," whose central meaning could be changed, and even reversed, by ingenious interpretation.

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Roosevelt's New Deal brought fascist-style central planning to America - what some call the "mixed economy" but Hilaire Belloc called the Servile State - and his highhanded approach to governance soon led to conflict with the Court, which found several of his chief measures unconstitutional.

 

Early in his second term, as you know, Roosevelt retaliated by trying to "pack" the Court by increasing the number of seats. This power play alienated even many of his allies, but it turned out not to be necessary. After 1937 the Court began seeing things Roosevelt's way. It voted as he wished; several members obligingly retired; and soon he had appointed a majority of the justices. The country virtually got a new Constitution.

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Roosevelt's Court soon decided that the Tenth Amendment was a "truism," of no real force. This meant that almost any federal act was ipso facto constitutional, and the powers "reserved" to the states and the people were just leftovers the federal government didn't want, like the meal left for the jackals by the satisfied lion. There was almost no limit, now, on what the federal government could do. In effect, the powers of the federal government no longer had to come from the people by constitutional delegation: they could be created by simple political power.

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Roosevelt also set the baneful precedent of using entitlement programs, such as Social Security, to buy some people's votes with other people's money. It was both a fatal corruption of democracy and the realization of the Servile State in America. The class of voting parasites has been swelling ever since.

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So the New Deal didn't just expand the power of the federal government; that had been done before. The New Deal did much deeper mischief: it struck at the whole principle of constitutional resistance to federal expansion. Congress didn't need any constitutional amendment to increase its powers; it could increase its own powers ad hoc, at any time, by simple majority vote.

All this, of course, would have seemed monstrous to our ancestors.
Even Alexander Hamilton, who favored a relatively strong central government in his time,
never dreamed of a government so powerful.

The Court suffered a bloody defeat at Roosevelt's hands, and since his time it has never found a major act of Congress unconstitutional. This has allowed the power of the federal government to grow without restraint. At the federal level, "checks and balances" has ceased to include judicial review.

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This is a startling fact, flying as it does in the face of the familiar conservative complaints about the Court's "activism."  When it comes to Congress, the Court has been absolutely passive. As if to compensate for its habit of capitulation to Congress, the Court's post-World War II "activism" has been directed entirely against the states, whose laws it has struck down in areas that used to be considered their settled and exclusive provinces. Time after time, it has found "unconstitutional" laws whose legitimacy had stood unquestioned throughout the history of the Republic.

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Notice how total the reversal of the Court's role has been. It began with the duty, according to Hamilton, of striking down new seizures of power by Congress. Now it finds constitutional virtually everything Congress chooses to do. The federal government has assumed myriads of new powers nowhere mentioned or implied in the Constitution, yet the Court has never seriously impeded this expansion, or rather explosion, of novel claims of power. What it finds unconstitutional are the traditional powers of the states.

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The postwar Court has done pioneering work in one notable area: the separation of church and state. I said "pioneering," not praiseworthy. The Court has consistently imposed an understanding of the First Amendment that is not only exaggerated but unprecedented - most notoriously in its 1962 ruling that prayer in public schools amounts to an "establishment of religion."

 

This interpretation of the Establishment Clause has always been
to the disadvantage of Christianity and of any law with roots in Christian morality.
  And it's impossible to doubt that the justices who voted for this interpretation
were voting their predilections.

Maybe that's the point. I've never heard it put quite this way, but the Court's boldest rulings showed something less innocent than a series of honest mistakes.

Studying these cases and others of the Court's liberal heyday, one never gets the sense that the majority was suppressing its own preferences; it was clearly enacting them.

Those rulings can be described as wishful thinking run amok, and touched with more than a little arrogance. All in all, the Court displayed the opposite of the restrained and impartial temperament one expects even of a traffic-court judge, let alone a Supreme Court.

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It's ironic to recall Hamilton's assurance that the Supreme Court would be "the least dangerous" of the three branches of the federal government. But Hamilton did give us a shrewd warning about what would happen if the Court were ever corrupted: in Federalist No. 78 he wrote that "liberty can have nothing to fear from the judiciary alone, but would have everything to fear from its union with either of the other [branches]."

Since Franklin Roosevelt, as I've said, the judiciary has in effect
formed a union with the other two branches
to aggrandize the power of the federal government
at the expense of the states and the people.

Remember...
"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary
                  in the same hands ... may justly be pronounced

                               the very definition of tyranny."
                               -James Madison, Federalist 47

NOTE:  Today, some would call that fascism.  What do you think?
[Read, "Fascism in America?" at www.heartcom.org/fascism.htm - CR]

"If we stuck to the Constitution as written, we would have: no federal meddling in our schools; no Federal Reserve; no U.S. membership in the UN; no gun control; and no foreign aid. We would have no welfare for big corporations, or the "poor"; no American troops in 100 foreign countries; no NAFTA, GATT, or "fast-track"; no arrogant federal judges usurping states rights on private property; no income tax. We could get rid of most of the cabinet departments, most of the agencies, and most of the budget. The government would be small, frugal, and limited."
-Congressman Ron Paul (1998)

"Once a government resorts to terror against its own population to get what it wants,
it must keep using terror against its own population to get what it wants.
A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop.
If such a government ever lets the fear subside
and rational thought return to the populace,
that government is finished."

--Michael Rivero

BOTTOM LINE:  The second coming of higher Christic consciousness and holy Buddhic compassion in the minds and heart of the Internet connected world will follow the interactive interface implimentation of the LOVE Model at the heart of the TeLeComm processes that define and refine our individual and collective consciousness along more enlightened lines that frame the universal law Constitution of G.O.D.~LOVE Language. -CR

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"So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom,

those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent,

and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods,

religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."

-Voltarine de Cleyre

 

"As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression.

In both instances, there is a twilight. And it is in such twilight

that we all must be aware of change in the air -- however slight

--  lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

- William O. Douglas, 1939 - 1975

US Supreme Court Justice.

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