{"id":18706,"date":"2016-03-10T12:46:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T17:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18706"},"modified":"2016-03-10T12:46:08","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T17:46:08","slug":"rome-the-birth-of-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18706","title":{"rendered":"Rome & the Birth of the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"
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QUESTION:\u00a0Mr. Armstrong; Are you saying they never intended to create a democracy since the founding fathers created the Electoral College?<\/p>\n

ANSWER:<\/u>\u00a0Correct. We have a\u00a0republic\u00a0and not a democracy, despite the fact they call this a democracy. You vote for delegates to represent you. The rules allow them to defeat any public choice and claim that is the law. At the time of the founding, the popular research that was emerging had to do with Rome. Above is an Order of the Cincinnati founded by George Washington who was inspired by the Roman dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (519\u2013430 BC), the aristocrat and statesman who served as consul in 460 BC and dictator in 458 BC and 439 BC, which made him a model of integrity and virtue.\u00a0The Romans regarded Cincinnatus as a hero. When Rome was invaded, he was\u00a0called to serve Rome as\u00a0dictator, which was an office for one year. He defended the nation and then resigned two weeks later after defeating the rival tribes of the Aequians, Sabines, and Volscians.\u00a0His immediate resignation of power demonstrated his integrity and lack of personal ambition. Washington would not accept the office of president until he had resigned as military leader and returned to private life. The Founding Fathers were deeply impressed with the battle of Rome against its Tarquin king that gave birth to a republic. Unfortunately, as we are experiencing now, all republics devolve into oligarchies.<\/p>\n

Ben Franklin\u00a0on one occasion, was dining at a Paris restaurant and learned that Edward Gibbon, the British historian of the\u00a0\u201cDecline and Fall of the Roman Empire<\/a>,\u201d was there as well. Franklin invited Gibbon to his table, but Gibbon refused,\u00a0remarking\u00a0that since he was loyal to George III, he wouldn\u2019t speak with a rebel like Franklin.<\/p>\n

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Rome & the Birth of the United States\u00a0 QUESTION:\u00a0Mr. Armstrong; Are you saying they never intended to create a democracy since the founding fathers created the Electoral College? ANSWER:\u00a0Correct. We have a\u00a0republic\u00a0and not a democracy, despite the fact they call this a democracy. You vote for delegates to represent you. The rules allow them to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5496,204,5479,4335,1024,827],"class_list":["post-18706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-armstrong-economics","tag-democracy","tag-martin-armstrong","tag-republic","tag-rome","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18707,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18706\/revisions\/18707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}