Nobody Reads: Amos Singeltary—American Prophet.

Nobody Reads 

Back when the American Constitution was being pondered and written, the arguments were much the same as they are today: Do we make a centralized government, or one more a bit more…less powerful. The Federalists were lead by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay, John Marshall, James Wilson, John Dickinson, and Roger Sherman. The anti-federalists had Patrick Henry, Richard Henry Lee, George Mason, John Hancock, James Monroe, Elbridge Gerry, George Clinton, Willie Jones, Melancton Smith, and Sam Adams. 

Both sides took to writing their thoughts, in newspapers throughout the country.

From A History of the American People-p.193 (by Paul Johnson)

One pamphleteer, signing himself “A Republican Federalist,” equated the proposed Congress with the British: ‘The revolution which separated the United States from Great Britain was not more important to the liberties of America, than that which will result from the adoption of a new system. The former freed us from a foreign subjugation, and there is too much reason to apprehend that the latter will reduce us to a federal domination.’ This fear of Big Government was allied to a widespread conviction, which the anti-federalists articulated, that the new federal congress and government would quickly fall into the hands of special interests and groups who would oppress the people. Hamilton’s notion of lawyers as a disinterested class formed by nature to run the center did not impress.

As Amos Singeltary of Massachusetts put it—

“These lawyers, and men of learning, and monied men, that talk so finely, and gloss over matters so smoothly, to make us poor illiterate people swallow down the pills, expect to get into Congress themselves: they expect to be the managers of this Constitution, and get all the power and the money into their own hands, and then they will swallow up all us little folks, like the great Leviathan. “

Remember, this was said BEFORE our Constitution was ratified. As to the point made about “lawyers” it was a held belief by the federalists that lawyers should be the ruling class, because they thought lawyers or, the “learned profession” were superior, and formed a natural ruling elite to rule over farmers, planters, and merchants, because they had no vested economic interest to advance.  (laugh here.)

In other words, it was decicded from the beginning by Hamilton and Madison that Harvard professors and lawyers should be the ones to rule the country. And…they do.

Is that why Bill Clinton and Barack Obama felt they had to become Constitutional Lawyers?

Nobody Wonders.

If you need to address radical Islam, you need to name it…what it is: Radical Islam. If you need to address a bunch of rich elites who think THEY and only they should rule over the people, you need to start reminding everyone what kind of government we DO have now…

Amos Singeltary, got it right. America is...an oligarchy. 

August 9, 2015 Posted by Joyanna Adams | Oligarchy, Uncategorized | Oligarchy | 1 Comment