Saturday, July 28, 2007

The Eighth Article Papers, I.

Here I will expand upon some of the language in this proposal.

The Majority of the Language used in this Proposal is lifted directly from the US Constitution, particularly, Article. I. For instance, Section 1, Clause 2 in this Proposal states:

No Person shall be a member of the House of the People who shall not have attained the Age of eighteen Years, and been ten Years a Citizen of the United States.
This Language is taken directly from Article. I., Section. 2., Clause 2 in describing the Requirements for all Members of the House of Representatives:

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.
In this way, I searched the entire Constitution for Language to use for this Article. The reasoning being that if similar Language was used, it would not violate the already existing Powers of the Legislature.

Section 1, Clause 1 of this Proposal states:

The House of the People shall be composed of the entirety of We the People.
The reasoning for This should be more than clear. This is to state, as the very first Clause of this Article, that it is the Right of the People to be their own Legislators, and that Right be a Universal Common throughout the United States. At the very least, it should be understood that the Idea and Intension behind the Language of this Clause is for inclusion rather than exclusion.

Section 1, Clause 3 of this Proposal states:

Each Citizen in the House of the People shall have one Vote.
This too, is lifted directly from the US Constitution, in Section. 3., Clause 1:

The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote.
The wisdom of this Language should be clear as well. Establishing a one-person-one-vote prevents against developing a list of Procedures that enables certain Individuals to ascertain for Themselves the Right of Multiple Votes. Such would be a travesty, as it would give undue Power and Influence to Certain People, a problem which is quite a hindrance at Present in our Society at Large. The Fathers of our Constitution were wise enough to prevent this very Thing in their own Houses by establishing a one-person-one-vote limitation, thus preventing the Speaker of the House or People of other positions of Power from gravitating towards unbalanced power or influence.

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