A return to America's founding principle

[genieroze]

December 4th, 2004 11:26 pm
A return to America's founding principles

The answer for Democratic Party is not to move left or right— it is to lift itself up to the high principles on which our nation was founded

By Joe Trippi / MSNBC

Civic virtue, the common good, the idea that with the rights of the citizen there are also duties and responsibilities of the citizen, the creation of the commonwealth, and the opposition to corruption at every turn, are not naïve notions— they are the tenets of a sound and healthy republic— the principles on which our nation was founded.

Paramount to the very idea of a republic is the active participation and involvement of the people in matters of common concern. America’s founders, particularly Thomas Jefferson, believed that in our republic the people were to be the sovereign—and no one else.

The campaign of 2004 demonstrated just how far we have strayed, as a nation, from these founding principles.

Today, the sovereign is made up of those with the money. Campaign contributors and lobbyists have more say over our laws than the people.

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=468

[OneBlueSky]

1. Jefferson was also right when he said . . .

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

several other presidents, from James Madison to Dwight David Eisenhower, agreed with him . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=2778474&mesg_id=2778474

[JanMichael]

2. People always seem to forget those quotes.

At least one doesn't ever seem to hear them on our "Liberal Media'...