sexta-feira, 2 de fevereiro de 2007

The Decline of the American Republic, by John T. Flynn (1955), in full text pdf

Devia ser um referência, quer para quem gosta de pensar sobre sistemas políticos e a história.Deixo uns pequenos textos de alguns capítulos.

The Decline of the American Republic

I THE TRAGIC RETREAT

Neither war, debt, inflation, controls
nor corruption are the roots of our greatest concern.
They are not causes. They are the effects of an internal
social disease.


II GOVERNMENT AND FREEDOM

The State, therefore, as the embodiment of authority,
is the ultimate source of all tyranny. Even human
slavery—the assumed right of one man to own another—
is impossible unless it is sanctioned and enforced by the
State. It must be clear, therefore, that the historic struggle
of man to be free has consisted in the effort to subdue
the State.


HI REPUBLICS IN HISTORY
IV THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC



...the "United States shall guarantee to every state in this
Union a republican form of government." And this
government of the state republic under this Constitution
retains in its hands the great mass of political
power inherent in the people. To state the principle differently:


1. The federal government has no powers save
those specifically granted to it by the states.
2. The individual states have all the powers of government
save those specifically denied them by
the Constitution.


The states have the powers they exercise by virtue
of their own inherent sovereignty. The federal government
has no powers except those delegated to it in the
Constitution by the states.

...

During the public debate on the Constitution, James Madison
wrote:
"The powers delegated . . . to the federal
government are jew and defined. Those which are
to remain in the state governments are numerous
and indefinite.(...)"


V THE GREAT DEPRESSION

The chief causes of serious depressions are booms, which are created by enormous and unhealthy expansion of credit, particularly bank credit. The depression is the headache after the spree. The depression of 1929 was due to several causes which ordinarily would have forced business into a moderate decline. But the extraordinary energy of the boom of 1923 to 1929 was created chiefly by a wild orgy of speculation of every sort, superimposed on a group of more or less normal activities—and ending in a disorderly crash.

VI A NEW NAME FOR SOCIALISM
VII REVOLUTION AND THE INTELLECTUALS
Vffl THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MARX
IX SOCIALISM AND THE CONSTITUTION
X THE DARK ALLIANCE
XI THE ASSAULT ON THE CONSTITUTION
XH FOUR MAGIC WORDS


"With the advent of the new justices appointed
by the President to the Supreme Court from 1937 onward,
those four words in the Constitution we have
been considering—"general welfare" and "interstate
commerce'*—took on wholly new meanings. And it was
thus that the collectivist revolutionaries tortured and
twisted the Constitution—without any change by means
of its lawful process for change—to legalize all the unconstitutional
projects of the collectivist New Deal."


Xm THE REPUBLIC IN CRISIS
XIV FROM DEPRESSION TO WAR BOOM


In the meantime we have built up, to almost unbelievable
proportions, the one great outside threat to
ourselves and the world. When World War II began,
Russian communism held dominance over 8½ million
square miles of territory and 180 million people. Today
it holds dominance over 13 million square miles
of territory and 800 million people—almost all of it
won with the help and connivance of the American
government.


XV THE WAR WE DO NOT FIGHT
XVI THE REVOLUTION OF OUR TIME
XVI TO REBUILD THE REPUBLIC
APPENDIX: THE CONSTITUTION
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