WHENCE OUR GOVERNMENTAL SYSTEM?

In Exodus 18, we see Moses acting as the lone leader of Israel and the sole arbiter of individual’s sins.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, told him that he needed to adopt “governmental subsidiarity,” by which the people would govern themselves in a sort of hierarchy, or tier-structured system.

"Subsidiarity" is the idea that a central authority should only perform those tasks that cannot be performed effectively at a more immediate or local level.

As the "power structure" moves away from the local level, it is "diluted" until all that is left for those at the top to do is to provide national defense, negotiate international treaties and trade agreements, and insure the rule of law (from which we derive the third brance of govenrment: the Judiciary).

They started in groups of ten families, roughly the equivalent of a local neighborhood.

Then there were to be groups of 50, analogous to a city or county commission.

After that, groups of 100 would be formed, something like state legislatures.

Groups of 1,000, the next tier, would serve as a national legislature.

Moses would serve as a chief executive and Erin and Joshua would serve as his “cabinet.”

Does that system look familiar?

It is the Biblical system of governance after which the United States of America is ordered, And very deliberately so.

You liberal/progressives can jump up and scream, pout, thrash about, be horrified or just sit in denial, but that won’t change a thing.

The government of the United States was conceived as an imitation of the principles of government laid out in the Bible.

I know how you hate that.

Too bad.

That’s where it had its origins, and that’s the end of the matter…like it or not.

If you had any semblance of the “open mind” you so often accuse conservatives of not having, you might learn something from that and be the richer for it.

I will not hold my breath.

The system into which we have been evolving since FDR has been, and is, a system modeled more closely to the Marxist idea of turning the whole process around and putting the essence of power, not in the hands of the people, but in the hands of a hopefully benevolent centralized government.

This system would look like this: The President rules over the Senate, which rules over the Congress, which is also ruled by the Supreme Court and all of whom rule over the people.

One-by-one, in small increments, our nation has moved toward the latter, abandoning the former.

We do so at our peril.

It will take only one despotic character elected to the presidency to suddenly, for the “good” of society as a whole, complete the turn-around and make us into a nation that is no longer a shining example to the world of “liberty and justice for all,” but a totalitarian nation, ruled from the top down.

We may have already found that character.

I, for one, will not sit idly by and let him,.and his liberal/progressive supporters complete the reversal.