Democracy.

By Steven D. Miller

 

Actions speak louder than words.  Nobody who claims to have Christ as King, can vote to create another lord-master-provider-protector.  It would violate the first and second Commandments.

Even in the pagan Roman Empire, everyone knew the maxim of law that a democracy is prohibited.  Multitudo errantium non parit errori patrociuum "The multitude of those who err furnishes no excuse for error."   This maxim of law has been perpetuated through the millennia to us today, but you ignore it.  Ignorance of the law is no excuse1.

 

Government was created by violence.  Police, laws, courts, taxes, military and all other institutions of government exist by violent enforcement and threats of violence.  They do NOT exist to protect your safety from violence.  Do not worship institutions as man-made (graven) idols. 

Christians who obey Christ will not resist evil, and they love their enemies, according to Christ’s sermon on the mount.  Christians will not resist evil offenders by violence.  They will not participate in avenging national insults, criminals, nor personal offenders. 

Since the time of Christ up until Quakers were executed in Massachusetts in the 1650’s there were Christians who refused to register with the authorities.  They would rather endure painful executions burning at the stake, while knowing that their orphans would be raised by their killers, than to swear oaths of allegiance.  Christianity has not changed just because your church tells you to participate with authorities.  The unchanging God of the Bible is not going to change. 

Exodus 20:3  Thou shalt have no other gods [Elohiym] before me.  Exodus 20:4  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.  Exodus 20:4  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image.  Matthew 6:24: No man can serve two masters.  The Hebrew word for gods in the first Commandment is 'elohiym which can mean magistrates or judges.  Thou shalt have no other judges ahead of the one true God.

The US Constitution does not contain the word democracy.  Governments are instituted among men to secure rights.  The Constitution secures the blessings of liberty.  It guarantees a republic form of government, NOT a democracy.  No form of collectivism can respect individual rights. 

Collectivists covet their neighbor's money through taxation and usury. The tenth Commandment prohibits coveting anything that is your neighbor’s.   Once the cancer of covetousness metastasizes into a democracy, no society can recover.  There is no amount of government regulations that can cure the corruption, greed, avarice, sloth, gluttony, deception and perversion that is spread by democracy.  If you insist on participating, you will find yourself dominated by those who refuse to manage their own lives. 

We knew what would happen to government that allows the greedy to vote.  Voting for welfare is a conflict of interest.  John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government, section 222, tells us that when government officers corrupt society, the result is "to cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security..."  

Throughout history, when God’s chosen people turn their backs on Him, The God of the Bible always uses brutal pagans to take his people captive for centuries at a time.  America is not going to be any different.  America has the government it deserves.

God wants you to be a free soul under his authority.  He does NOT want you to be tempted to rule your neighbors, nor be corrupted by the power to rule your neighbors, nor be subservient to your neighbors.

EQUAL NEIGHBORS

Love your neighbor as yourself, there is no greater commandment.  This is the essence of being created equal. 

Every July Fourth Americans celebrate an anniversary of the signing of a famous document that told the world we had a right to be free and independent because we hold the truth that all men are created equal. The truth that we are created equal is the received law of the land in America. 

Democracy denies that we have a right to be free and independent.  Instead of equal, a democracy holds the truth that the mob is King. 

Christians cannot covet. In order to gain from the gifts, gratuities, and benefits of mob rule, one must be willing to take something from his neighbor.   By the phrase “willing to take something from his neighbor” I mean forcibly take from your neighbor if he fails to pay.  You hired the tax collector to levy his wages, seize his bank account, and evict him with the force of guns if necessary, and sell his house in order for you to obtain benefits at his expense.  Again: Christians cannot covet.

You become dependant on the state benefactors.  Your greed, avarice and sloth has created the world you see around you.  You now equate freedom with safety and comfort.  Your God-given responsibilities are now an intolerable burden. 

More information is in my book The Citizen Cannot Complain.

ARE ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL?

A four volume law textbook Blackstone's Commentaries On The Law was the preeminent law textbook in the English Colonies.  It is considered by the Supreme Court to be part of the “received law of the land”.  It explains in the introduction that all natural and legislated laws come from divine law:

"It is binding over all the globe in all countries, and at all times; no human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such of them as are valid derive all their force, and all their authority, mediately or immediately, from this original... Neither could any other law possibly exist; for a law always supposes some superior who is to make it; and in a state of nature we are all equal, without any other superior but him who is the author of our being."

Merely thinking that a collective can make a choice for you is the opposite of “all men are created equal”

DOMINATION

The LORD gave you a free will. Domination is the opposite.

Quakers warned us that all forms of forced thought control (domination) is "... superstitions, will-worship, and abominable idolatry in the sight of God". (Quaker Apology # 11). Paul confessed in Acts 26:10 that he executed Christians when he cast his ballot against them.  Thomas Jefferson was "against every form of tyranny over the mind of man". You welcomed tyranny when you were the tyrant, and now you complain.  Collectivism in any of its forms cannot recognize individual rights.

The Constitution was written in the Quaker State, and the founding fathers would be well aware of traditional Quaker fundamentals.  Quaker Apology #14 by Robert Barclay (1678):

“Concerning the power of the Civil Magistrate, in matters purely religious, and pertaining to the conscience:
Since God hath assumed to himself the power and dominion of the conscience, who alone can rightly instruct and govern it, therefore it is not lawful for any whatsoever, by virtue of any authority or principality they bear in the government of this world, to force the consciences of others; and therefore all killing [executions], banishing, fining, imprisoning, and other such things, which men are afflicted with, for the alone exercise of their conscience, or difference in worship or opinion, proceedeth from the spirit of Cain the murderer, and is contrary to the Truth; provided always, that no man, under the pretence of conscience, prejudice his neighbour in his life or estate; or do anything destructive to, or inconsistent with human society; in which case the law is for the transgressor, and justice to be administered upon all, without respect of persons”

He cited Luke 9:55-56; Matthew 7:12,29; Titus 3:10

Many people are fooled into thinking that the United States is a democracy.  The US Constitution, Article 4, section 4 guarantees to every inhabitant a REPUBLICAN form of government. 

THE U.S. CONSTITUTION DOES NOT CONTAIN THE WORD DEMOCRACY because democracy has no place in America.  You have no right to dominate others.  Others have very limited right to dominate you.

In a democracy, a majority votes to force their will on others.  But in a nation where everyone is created equal, those who know right from wrong will never covet their neighbors' goods, will not plunder the innocent, will not exercise dominion over others. 

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. 

Any political party that seeks to dominate others is evil.  Don’t send your benefactors out to take money (taxes) from your neighbors.  The Constitution controls government, not people.  Anyone who participates in an election agrees to the outcome, regardless of how abhorrent.  Don't dominate others. Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you.  Using force (the force of law) to bleed your neighbors dry is evil.  Using the force of law to regulate your neighbors out of business is evil. 

In a republic, everyone has rights.  Your Constitution guaranteed you a republican form of government.  In a democracy, the misguided mobocracy forces their will on the minority.  The word “Republic” comes from the Latin idiom `Libera res publica', which means “free from things public”. 

 

HISTORY

Bouvier's 1870 Law Dictionary, Vol 1, page 13: "The term republic, res publica, signifies the state independently of its form of government."

Alexander Hamilton:

"We are a Republic.  Real Liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy."

James Madison, 1787, Federalist Paper #10:

"Democracy is the most vile form of government ... democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.
Theoretical politicians who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would at the same time be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions”

Of course democracies are “spectacles of turbulence and contention.”  They are only for those who would take the risk of loosing their rights in exchange for the chance to dominate others. 

Patrick Henry:

"Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men without a consequent loss of liberty! I say that the loss of that dearest privilege has ever followed, with absolute certainty, every such mad attempt."

Fisher Ames, who was the author of the words of the First Amendment, said:

"A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction.  These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way."

John Adams, 1815:

"Democracy ... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy].  Remember, democracy never lasts long.  It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.  There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:

"Between a balanced Republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos."

Supreme Court Justice Learned Hand, Spirit of Liberty

"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and courts. These are false hopes, believe me; these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no law, no court can save it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson speech, August 31, 1837:

"He who can alter my state of mind, is my master."

When we were convinced that it was no longer a sin to desire benefits at the expense of our neighbor "Faith, Hope, and Charity began to flee out of our Church". [The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards, The First Conclusion.] 

It is this sin of coveting our neighbor's goods, even a shoelace (Genesis 14:23), that separates us from the order of Melchizedek and the inheritance of the kingdom.  Each man becomes a new tyrant to freedom and liberty, rejecting God and cursing our children with debt and teaching them to “receive the reward of unrighteousness… with covetous practices, cursed children". [2 Peter 2:13-14]

Greek Historian Polybius The Histories Book 6, section 9:
link: http://www.uvm.edu/~bsaylor/classics/polybius6.html
or http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Polybius/6*.html

But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch.

 

“A simple democracy is the devil's own government."1,2

This must have been a popular saying.  This quote is often attributed to several American patriots.  Most often to Benjamin Rush, or Jedidiah Morse (the "father of American Geography"), but it was actually written by a Presbyterian pastor. 

1. L.H. Butterfield, ed., The Letters of Benjamin Rush, vol. 1 (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1951), 454, quoting John Joachim Zubly, Presbyterian pastor and delegate to Congress, in a letter to David Ramsay in March or April 1788.

2. William Elder, Questions of the Day, (Philadelphia: Henry Baird publisher, 1871) page 175, attributes the quote to Thomas Jefferson.  

 

A CANCER SORE WHICH EATS TO THE HEART OF THE CONSTITUTION

Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 19, 1787. Thomas Jefferson.  In the paragraph starting at the bottom of page 290:

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.  … The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigour. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution."
[Venality is the condition of being susceptible to bribery or corruption. The use of a position of trust for dishonest gain. The American Heritage Dictionary]

Why would he mention subservience?

 

SUBSERVIENCE.

Actions speak louder than words.  You are a slave to whom you obey. (Romans 6:16).  Once you salute your new master you have acknowledged that you are the inferior, no longer equal.

Welcome to your Novus Ordo Seclorum secular new world order.

The words ballot and bullet are etymologically the same word.  You have no right to dominate others with a ballot, or a bullet.  Both are just as evil.  We are endowed by our Creator with a free will.  You had no respect for the rights of others.  By registering to vote, you declare that you want a chance to dominate others. You got what you wanted. You consented to be governed. You wanted a system of domination.  By registering to vote, you consented to the outcome.  Again: you got what you wanted.

 

YOU GOT WHAT YOU WANTED

Do you have a God-given right to be protected against the consequences of your acts?  Do you have a right to be protected against God's discipline?  Which god protects you?

Maxim of Law:

Ex dolo malo non oritur actio. 
He has invited what has come, and he must accept it.

The Supreme Court in U.S. v Cruikshank case, 92 U.S. at 551:

"It is the natural consequence of a citizenship which owes allegiance to two sovereignties, and claims protection from both.  The citizen cannot complain, because he has voluntarily submitted himself to such a form of government."

 

REGISTERING TO VOTE

Those registered to vote agree to the outcome of the election, no matter how abhorrent.

If there is a bond issue on the ballot, then those who are registered to vote put up their real estate is collateral for the debt.  Even after they sell their interest in the property to foreign buyers, the original collaterial is subrogated until the bond is paid.

Those registered to vote are represented.  They have entered society. Once represented Procurationem adversus nulla est proæscriptio.  There is no prescription for procuration.  If you are represented, then you cannot be damaged by your representative.   Your submission must be a complete submission with the full understanding that you cannot be damaged by your representative.

 

UNREASONING MOBS DEMANDING YOUR MONEY?

Democracy killed Christ.  "But the chief priests and elders persuaded the multitude that they should ask Barabbaas, and destroy Jesus."  Matthew 27:20.  Pilate said publicly that he found no fault in Christ (Luke 23:4 & 14).  Pilate publicly washed his hands to show that he had no jurisdiction, "saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: se ye to it" (Matthew 27:24) but the democracy executed Christ.  Pilate liked Christ Jesus and kept trying to release him (Luke 23:20), but that did not matter; he did not dare act contrary to the will of the vast majority.   Voters, by a voice vote, determined that Christ should be executed. 

Unreasoning mobs do not have authority. 

The sovereign people are independent of the administrating governments in all republics.   Freemen are free from civil authority. `Libera res publica'.  A Roman officer cannot arrest a Roman citizen.  Acts 22:27,29.  Freemen are free from civil authority. 

In a democracy, which we have had since 1933, you can vote to plunder others and demand benefits.  You too can exercise your democratic rights to persecute others.  But, you must suffer the consequences. 

You have a right to create any kind of political system, But, this time, you delegated to your servants a power to create gods/saviors/benefactors to provide for you, protect you and lord over you.  Isn't this the essence of creating (graven) false images of a god to be worshiped? 

Every voter has agreed to abide by the outcome of the election, even if he finds it abhorrent.  Governments' derive their powers from the consent of the governed.  You have consented to be governed.  So you've agreed, by registering to vote, that any misguided majority determines your moral values.  Even the Supreme Court (92 US@551) said: "The citizen cannot complain, because he has voluntarily submitted himself to such a form of government."  Registered voters consent to be taxed.  Conversely, there would be no taxation without representation.  Memorize this legal maxim: “He who consents to an act is not damaged by it.”  Did your government school teach this?

The Christian must not be of the worldly society.  [a classic argument for Christians to not participate in society is Leo Tolstoy's What I Believe published in Russia in 1884.]

If you are a registered voter, you have consented to the results of the election.  If an election passed a bond issue, then you agreed to have a lien on your property until the bond is paid, even if you didn't vote. 

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

Those with a conflict of interest will insist on dominating their neighbors. 

`Conflict of interest' is legal terminology for those who can influence a government decision to enrich themselves.  This is not limited to Elected Officials or civil servants.  Welfare partakers are, by voting, also influencing government to receive their check.  Anyone who receives a government check, be it a paycheck or an entitlement check has a conflict of interest that prohibits them from voting.  Voting becomes, for them, a government granted privilege that can be revoked at any time.  On the other hand, Government's sovereign masters have a right to control their servants.  Jura Summi Imperii. 

You are no longer in a Republic.  Prove it to yourself.  Ask yourself some questions: Can a majority of Congressmen, and a judge now conspire to take all your rights from you?  Can a city government prohibit you from owning a dog unless you first beg for permission and pay a fee?  Can you repair your front porch without begging for permit and paying a fee?

Democracy cannot be considered as a form of government.  Although it starts as a form of government, it quickly dissolves into corruption.  The moment a politician makes a promise, is the moment democracy ceases to be a form of government.  To use a public office to grant favors to those who elect you is corruption.   It is the very definition of corruption.  Go look it up in a law dictionary.  DEMOCRACY IS CORRUPTION.   According to John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government section 222 the use of a public office to influence your electors will “cut up the government by the roots, and poison the very fountain of public security...”

In 1770, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh, in his book Cycles of Democracy, had this comparison with the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

'A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.'

Note his warning that democracies are “always followed by a dictatorship”. 

The LORD Himself warned you in 1 Samuel 8:5-17 that government will tax, tax and tax until you cannot stand it (and back then it was just 10%).  You were warned that your elected king would take, take, take until society collectively wants God back into their life, but God will not answer your prayers (God honored your free-will, you got what you wanted, stop complaining). 1st Samuel 8:18 "And you will cry out in that day because of your king whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you in that day."

Exodus 23:2 Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil

Socialist bullies gang up to force their will on you.  We called it fascism.  They cannot use a Republic.

Government exists to secure the blessings of liberty.  Don’t claim to live in a free country if you have never seen liberty.

THE GOOD NEWS

Christ delivered us from Caesar.  Don’t return to this vomit.  For having escaped the corruption of this world, to be entangled again you will be worse off than you were.  Second Peter 2:20-22.

The same Paul who tells us in Romans 13 that all legitimate authority comes from God, tells us in First Corinthians 6:12 that he would not be brought under the power of any.  He did not change his mind.  He was not speaking of counterfeit government.  Don’t pretend that counterfeit government is legitimate authority.

At the Last Supper, Christ bestowed upon us a kingdom.  We received the kingdom Hebrews 12:28.

Matthew 6:33 seek ye first the kingdom of God. Luke 21:31.

 

1. Ignorantia juris quod quisque tenetur scire, neminem excusat. Ignorance of a law, which every one is bound to know, excuses no man.

 

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