The Hard-Left Exhibits Its Hatred for Both the Constitution and State Sovereignty

Jan 10, 2022

In their quest to bring State governments to heel, the Schumer-Pelosi Democrat-led Congress is pulling out all the stops to execute a power-grab that will do more damage to the American form of government than even the 17th Amendment did when it hobbled protections for the States at the federal level.

In a statement that personifies the contempt today’s federal Democrats have for the sovereignty of the States, US Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) – the House majority Whip and a politician who lives in a history loop that begins and ends with the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, defended the disingenuous assertion being shopped by the Democrats that federal elections should be the exclusive purview of the federal government. He went so far as to cite Alexander Hamilton, saying federal elections "cannot be left up to the States."

In the shadow of the Democrats’ wholly insincere marking of the January 6, 2021 Capitol Hill protest, during which they exploited the anniversary to shill for HR1 and HR4 – two election purview usurping legislative measures, Clyburn assumed the voice of the total of the Democrat congressional caucus – sans US Sens. Joe Manchin ((D-WV), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) – in feigning a desperate need for the passage of both legislation lest the Democracy wither and die.

In arguing the extreme need to pass HR1 (the For the People Act) and HR4 (the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021), Clyburn insists Congress needs to "mature" with the times, making changes that literally usurp the protections built into the US Constitutions for State sovereignty.

"What is true today was not true then, and therefore the kind of changes that we need to make, the kind of modifications that we need to make must fit the times," Clyburn said.

"Just because you’ve got one little nugget that was true back in 1876 doesn’t mean that that is true in 1976…This country has matured," he added. "This is not the same country it was over 200 years ago. We as a people must mature right along with it."

Clyburn attempted to validate his opinion on the back of Alexander Hamilton’s wholly partisan advocacy for his preferred candidate in the election of 1800, saying such elections "cannot" and "should not be left up to the states."

"That’s why states were not allowed to put term limits on federal officials, so the elections were not solely conducted by the states…it had to go beyond the states to determine" he explained.

Why This Is Important

Make no mistake, HR1 and HR4 are two pieces of legislation that unethically and unconstitutionally usurp both the written word and the spirit of the US Constitution where the issue of the relationship between the States and the federal government is concerned.

The For the People Act (HR1) would:

Seize the authority of states to regulate voter registration and the voting process by forcing states to implement early voting, automatic voter registration, same-day registration, online voter registration, and no-fault absentee balloting.
Mandate 15 days of early voting
Degrade the accuracy of registration lists by requiring states to automatically register all individuals (as opposed to “citizens”) from state and federal databases, such as state DMVs, corrections and welfare offices, and federal agencies such as the Social Security Administration, the Department of Labor, the Federal Bureau of Prisons, and the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services of the Department of Health & Human Services.
Mandate online voter registration that is not tied to an existing state record, such as a driver’s license
Allow 16-year-olds and 17-year-olds to register
Require states to count ballots cast by voters outside of their assigned precincts, thus rendering ineffective any poll watching initiative
Mandate no-fault absentee ballots, ban witness signature or notarization requirements for absentee ballots; force states to accept absentee ballots received up to 10 days after Election Day as long as they are postmarked by Election Day; and require states to allow vote trafficking (vote harvesting) so that any third parties – including campaign staffers and political consultants – can pick up and deliver absentee ballots
Prevent election officials from checking the eligibility and qualifications of voters and removing ineligible voters
Limit the public release of voter registration information, making it almost impossible for nonpartisan organizations to verify the accuracy of registration rolls
Ban state voter ID laws by forcing states to allow individuals to vote without an ID
Expand regulation and government censorship of campaigns and political activity and speech, including online and policy-related speech
Reduce the number of Federal Election Commission members from six to five, allowing the political party with three commission seats to control the commission
Prohibit state election officials from participating in federal elections
Require states to restore the ability of felons to vote the moment they are out of prison regardless of uncompleted parole, probation, or restitution requirements
Transfer the right to draw congressional districts from state legislatures to “independent” commissions whose members are unaccountable to voters
Authorize the IRS to engage in partisan activity, permitting them to investigate and consider the political and policy positions of nonprofit organizations before granting tax-exempt status, thus enabling IRS officials to target organizations engaging in First Amendment activity with disfavored views
Prohibit the filing of any lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of HR1 anywhere except in the District Court for the District of Columbia and would allow the court to order all plaintiffs and intervenors, regardless of their number (such as all 50 states), “to file joint papers or to be represented by a single attorney at oral argument,” severely limiting the legal representation and due process rights of challengers
Establish a “Commission to Protect Democratic Institutions” that would threaten the independence of the judiciary with the authority to compel judges to testify and justify their legal decisions

Further, HR 4’s provisions roll all of HR1’s elements together (albeit in more palatable language but with the same goals) with HR4’s manipulative power-grab tools.

As The Heritage Foundation’s Hans von Spakovsky clearly points out:

“HR4’s stated purpose is to prevent racial discrimination, but it would force racial gerrymandering, make race the predominant factor in the election process, advance the partisan interests of one political party, and prevent common-sense election reforms like voter ID.
“It would change Section 3 from requiring a showing of intentional discrimination to allowing other violations of the VRA—most of which require only a showing of ‘disparate impact’ (i.e., a statistical disparity)—to count toward triggering preclearance coverage…”

The very existence of the United States (as if the name itself isn’t a testimony to this fact) is an achievement of a compact between the sovereign and individual States that created the federal government. That compact did not create a lording body in the federal government, but a limited-power governing body that was meant to have purview over the “common good” of all States and all of the citizens of those States.

But ever since the advent of the fascist Wilson administration and the passage of the 17th Amendment, the federal government – which was supposed to execute symbiotically with the sovereignty of the States – has continually whittled away at that sovereignty to the point that all 50 States are within a single vote in the US Senate of becoming tantamount to irrelevant and completely subservient to the will of the dysfunctional, draconian, and increasingly fascist federal government and its behemoth bureaucracy.

Clyburn cited Hamilton – while brilliant, arguably one of the most politically partisan of the Framers – in his justification to attack the sovereignty of the States regarding federal election purview, a purview that facilitates the existence of the federal government at its core.

But Hamilton also said, “When a government betrays the people by amassing too much power and becoming tyrannical, the people have no choice but to exercise their original right of self-defense – to fight the government.”

The federal government is supposed to exist symbiotically with State governments; in a state of balance. Should the current fascist federal government succeed in clawing away the States’ constitutional right to federal election purview, it will lead to the abolition of the Electoral College and relegate the United States to mob rule (read: pure democracy, where the rights of the minority are not protected).

If the United States federal government votes itself the Alpha and Omega, we only have ourselves to blame when freedom lies dead on the ash heap of history.

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