pjmedia.com By Richard C. Lyons
Polarity is in the nature of things; in fact, just as the poles of north and south exist, matter itself is drawn into being at opposites, as with the forces of magnets. So are we; as social creatures of this world, we are given to being opposites.
When our nation’s founders gathered in Philadelphia 238 summers ago, with the wealth of all of their collected libraries, they studied history’s opposed factions: from the Plains and Coastal parties of the Athenians, to the factions of Marius and Sulla in Rome, to the Byzantine parties of the Blue and the Green, to the Guelphs and Ghibellines of the Florentines, to the literary houses of Verona, the Montague and Capulets, whose differences devoured the lives and loves of innocents. One of the great fears of that great intellectual company was that America would fall one day…broken by such opposed factions.
They deliberately wrote the Constitution, our social compact, to overcome such factions. Firstly, by creating a Constitution based on common law, with protections of individual and property rights which shield everyone against the ambitions of government, or any party thereof. The founders crafted a Constitutional Republic based first on federalism, which allowed people as varied in interests as a Boston lawyer and a Key West fisherman to live under their distinct state and local laws, each best suited to themselves, while living under a common umbrella of federal law…
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