Other than the passage of the 17th amendment the action of the Senate yesterday to strip the rule of minority consent, sold by the media under the obfuscation term of “the filibuster rule”, nothing has been so stark as to destroy the very foundation from our republic.
To justify the usurpation the White House tweets this message:
Everything you need to know about why today’s #filibuster rule change is a really big deal: http://t.co/Sl4lKRMxpe, pic.twitter.com/69aLdZ8kpL
— White House Archived (@ObamaWhiteHouse) November 22, 2013
Understand the severity – The “minority consent“, now dispatched in rather willy nilly fashion, by Majority Leader Harry Reid is the thread which binds the very fabric of the constitution.
There is NOT one mention of the word “Democracy” in our constitution – NOT ONE. The absence of the word democracy is specifically intentional.
The exact phrase which sums up our united states charter is:
“The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government.”
The “Consent of the Minority” was not merely a substantive point of constitutional construction. It was -by intentional construct- the very binding substance which created the parchment before a single word was penned. (more…)









