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How has the United States Constitution influenced
American values?
VoiceCast Authored and Read by
Mayasonette Lambkiss
12/26/2023
as a public content of the Institute of Universal Human Rights - Hawaii
"The American Revolution ushered in an age of democratic revolutions. Some of those revolutions resulted in functioning democracies, but as noted, not all such revolutions were peaceful. Some ended in extensive violence and dictatorship. America’s revolutionary war and its Declaration of Independence did not lead to chaos, rather it culminated in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the peaceful transfer of political power between parties in 1801."
(AMERICAN VISION AND VALUES, Bellevue University Nebraska.)
It matters a great deal how we classify or define the structure of our government, because those words either resonate with the heart of people or will thwart their thinking. Democracy resonates with the heart of every American citizen, but it is such an ideal that would cause the collapse of this country to eliminate any form of empowered structure to manage that democracy, as if such democracy were the enemy of itself. It is important for the governed to understand how the government is set up, how and why the government is empowered to govern the people, in order to preserve the power of the governed people. It is the design that is genius. How to fill it with the correct officers is a whole other question.
But why is citizenship education important for the governed as much as for the government? The answer can be as simple as the answer Andrew Oldenquist's reasoning published in Educational Leadership, 1980, titled The Nature of Citizenship: "Citizenship education should foster group loyalty and values", even if he also flavored it with critical specifics such as 'white middle-class values in black and white poor neighborhoods'. Today we are just hoping all citizens will learn about the academic interpretation of the government systems.
The United States is not an autocracy, because it is not governed by a supreme monarch. The United States is Governed by democratically elected representatives; therefore, it is a democracy, meaning the will of the people is heard first, and made effective by the appointment of the representation. The assembly or House of Representatives than is entitled again, as the result of a secondary democratic election to conduct any national decision making, even the creation of an electoral college to appoint a President. The United States is currently a confederation of 50 self-governed states. To manage the bureaucratic duties of such vast territory effectively, legally, and transparently, additional structures are necessary to implement. The 50 self-governed states empower one or two representatives via democratic elections to conduct state interests on a federal level. It is highly commendable that they hear out the Mass of People's opinion on the matter first by a general Presidential election before voting themselves. It is not only power preserved for the people, but respect given to the people by those in whose hands the decision ultimately stands. Why elect representatives, if you are only going to strip them from power by debating their office to be unconstitutional or as a violation of the rights of the people. You either elect representatives and give them due respect and power, or you don't and end up with a chaotic, unmanageable democratic bureaucracy. But you can't elect representatives to just sit and be your puppets. Have respect for the office that is there to represent you, and the excellent process to get the right people into those offices.
Therefore, the United States operates and realizes the vision of its constitution by inventing a system never used before, and best described as "REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, or a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC". (America Is A Democracy, Counter Arguments, YouTube, 2019)
Where democracy is a cultural attitude giving power and freedom to the people, but not a governmental structure of government, because that power goes to the democratically elected representatives to protect the will of the people.
It is crucial for everyday citizens to understand how we classify or define the structure of our government, so they would know how much respect their voice is entitled to and wouldn't incorrectly grudge against authority by not understanding the nuances of their government. Much harm is done by 'denialists' and conspiration theorists causing unfunded, gossip-like rebellion against a beautifully designed system. If you don't like the minority of rich and entitled representatives making the decisions on the federal level, start democratically electing poor, insignificant representatives on the state level, and see what happens. It is up to your citizens living in your state. But just remember before you do that, how can you expect someone running and managing a country's books and economy, who cannot manage their own. One frightening example of how commendable democratic structure can misfire, is by the Russian democratic elections resulting ongoingly in the appointment of a mentally ill mass-murderer psychopath, like Putin. He is a democratically elected dictator, using a legitimate democratic process to elect a tyrant autocrat. Are the Russian people really so weak just can't get rid of him, or do they really like how Putin is undermining all human dignity and decency to achieve his selfish objectives? Let's see how they vote in May 2024 now, after his totalitarian march into invading another (8th) unprovoked war against Ukraine?
ACCOUNTABILITY builds trust and support between the governed and its elected government. While a chain of command is necessary for efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency, consistent integrity, that means doing the right thing every single day in office, healthy political and administrative relationship building and advancements towards governmental mission by a servant leader attitude. Accountability ensures follow through, time efficiency, and respectable, even graceful motivational force. Accountability is also the result of insightful education of the governed to participate in the endorsement or critique of the government. Therefore, it is the government's best interest to clarify misconceptions by correct education.
Also, you could try googling various other foreign countries' constitution, and least read up on a few Wikipedia entrees to enlighten yourself by the comparison. Do you still desire any changes to what America created? Is it really the system that must change, or just the education of the elected for office? Do not confuse the constitutional system with the character of people elected to office? You can craft the most incredible vessel, but are you going to fill it with the best wine, or the worst? Choose your content to elevate the morale of this country, instead of tearing down a piece of genius and elegant political art constructed for an ideal power distribution that represents the voice of the people. Please, treasure, respect, and love your Representative Democracy, because it is the greatest invention in the history of humankind.
The most legitimate question to ask here would be:
WHY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS BECAME SO DEPENDENT ON CAMPAIGNS, WHICH DEPEND ON INSANE FUNDRAISING, AND THEREFORE DEPENDS ON BILLIONAIRES WITH THEIR OWN INTERESTS IN THE FOREFRONT INSTEAD OF THE INTERESTS AND WILL OF THE PEOPLE? IDEALLY, ELECTIONS SHOULD COST NOTHING, because it should be about the best argument (public debate) and not about whose face was in the news most. Increasing public education while making presidential campaigning unconstitutional would be a more enlightened way to hear the will of the people.
Therefore, to answer the question 'How has the United States Constitution Influenced American Values?' is that the most revolutionary significant act was to base the formation of a new country on shared values of its citizens. By clicking on the link at the end of my show notes, which is the printed transcript of this voicecast. So, please, scroll down to the end of this transcript and find the attached pdf Titled: Answering Difficult Questions Abroad: American Values, originally published at the web address: PDF (www.state.gov)
Thank you for listening, and as always, I immensely enjoyed sharing my research with you. Please, do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions or reflections to share.
Love you America, and to my listeners,
Aloha
Mayasonette Lambkiss
THE 9 VALUES AMERICANS HOLD THE HIGHEST REGARD:
extension://elhekieabhbkpmcefcoobjddigjcaadp/https://www.state.gov/courses/answeringdifficultquestions/assets/m/resources/DifficultQuestions-AmericanValues.pdf
REFERENCES:
AMERICAN VISION AND VALUES, Bellevue University Nebraska
Andrew Oldenquist', Educational Leadership, 1980, The Nature of Citizenship
America Is A Democracy, Counter Arguments, YouTube, 2019
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By Mayasonette LambkissHow has the United States Constitution influenced
American values?
VoiceCast Authored and Read by
Mayasonette Lambkiss
12/26/2023
as a public content of the Institute of Universal Human Rights - Hawaii
"The American Revolution ushered in an age of democratic revolutions. Some of those revolutions resulted in functioning democracies, but as noted, not all such revolutions were peaceful. Some ended in extensive violence and dictatorship. America’s revolutionary war and its Declaration of Independence did not lead to chaos, rather it culminated in the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the peaceful transfer of political power between parties in 1801."
(AMERICAN VISION AND VALUES, Bellevue University Nebraska.)
It matters a great deal how we classify or define the structure of our government, because those words either resonate with the heart of people or will thwart their thinking. Democracy resonates with the heart of every American citizen, but it is such an ideal that would cause the collapse of this country to eliminate any form of empowered structure to manage that democracy, as if such democracy were the enemy of itself. It is important for the governed to understand how the government is set up, how and why the government is empowered to govern the people, in order to preserve the power of the governed people. It is the design that is genius. How to fill it with the correct officers is a whole other question.
But why is citizenship education important for the governed as much as for the government? The answer can be as simple as the answer Andrew Oldenquist's reasoning published in Educational Leadership, 1980, titled The Nature of Citizenship: "Citizenship education should foster group loyalty and values", even if he also flavored it with critical specifics such as 'white middle-class values in black and white poor neighborhoods'. Today we are just hoping all citizens will learn about the academic interpretation of the government systems.
The United States is not an autocracy, because it is not governed by a supreme monarch. The United States is Governed by democratically elected representatives; therefore, it is a democracy, meaning the will of the people is heard first, and made effective by the appointment of the representation. The assembly or House of Representatives than is entitled again, as the result of a secondary democratic election to conduct any national decision making, even the creation of an electoral college to appoint a President. The United States is currently a confederation of 50 self-governed states. To manage the bureaucratic duties of such vast territory effectively, legally, and transparently, additional structures are necessary to implement. The 50 self-governed states empower one or two representatives via democratic elections to conduct state interests on a federal level. It is highly commendable that they hear out the Mass of People's opinion on the matter first by a general Presidential election before voting themselves. It is not only power preserved for the people, but respect given to the people by those in whose hands the decision ultimately stands. Why elect representatives, if you are only going to strip them from power by debating their office to be unconstitutional or as a violation of the rights of the people. You either elect representatives and give them due respect and power, or you don't and end up with a chaotic, unmanageable democratic bureaucracy. But you can't elect representatives to just sit and be your puppets. Have respect for the office that is there to represent you, and the excellent process to get the right people into those offices.
Therefore, the United States operates and realizes the vision of its constitution by inventing a system never used before, and best described as "REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, or a CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC". (America Is A Democracy, Counter Arguments, YouTube, 2019)
Where democracy is a cultural attitude giving power and freedom to the people, but not a governmental structure of government, because that power goes to the democratically elected representatives to protect the will of the people.
It is crucial for everyday citizens to understand how we classify or define the structure of our government, so they would know how much respect their voice is entitled to and wouldn't incorrectly grudge against authority by not understanding the nuances of their government. Much harm is done by 'denialists' and conspiration theorists causing unfunded, gossip-like rebellion against a beautifully designed system. If you don't like the minority of rich and entitled representatives making the decisions on the federal level, start democratically electing poor, insignificant representatives on the state level, and see what happens. It is up to your citizens living in your state. But just remember before you do that, how can you expect someone running and managing a country's books and economy, who cannot manage their own. One frightening example of how commendable democratic structure can misfire, is by the Russian democratic elections resulting ongoingly in the appointment of a mentally ill mass-murderer psychopath, like Putin. He is a democratically elected dictator, using a legitimate democratic process to elect a tyrant autocrat. Are the Russian people really so weak just can't get rid of him, or do they really like how Putin is undermining all human dignity and decency to achieve his selfish objectives? Let's see how they vote in May 2024 now, after his totalitarian march into invading another (8th) unprovoked war against Ukraine?
ACCOUNTABILITY builds trust and support between the governed and its elected government. While a chain of command is necessary for efficiency, effectiveness, and transparency, consistent integrity, that means doing the right thing every single day in office, healthy political and administrative relationship building and advancements towards governmental mission by a servant leader attitude. Accountability ensures follow through, time efficiency, and respectable, even graceful motivational force. Accountability is also the result of insightful education of the governed to participate in the endorsement or critique of the government. Therefore, it is the government's best interest to clarify misconceptions by correct education.
Also, you could try googling various other foreign countries' constitution, and least read up on a few Wikipedia entrees to enlighten yourself by the comparison. Do you still desire any changes to what America created? Is it really the system that must change, or just the education of the elected for office? Do not confuse the constitutional system with the character of people elected to office? You can craft the most incredible vessel, but are you going to fill it with the best wine, or the worst? Choose your content to elevate the morale of this country, instead of tearing down a piece of genius and elegant political art constructed for an ideal power distribution that represents the voice of the people. Please, treasure, respect, and love your Representative Democracy, because it is the greatest invention in the history of humankind.
The most legitimate question to ask here would be:
WHY PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS BECAME SO DEPENDENT ON CAMPAIGNS, WHICH DEPEND ON INSANE FUNDRAISING, AND THEREFORE DEPENDS ON BILLIONAIRES WITH THEIR OWN INTERESTS IN THE FOREFRONT INSTEAD OF THE INTERESTS AND WILL OF THE PEOPLE? IDEALLY, ELECTIONS SHOULD COST NOTHING, because it should be about the best argument (public debate) and not about whose face was in the news most. Increasing public education while making presidential campaigning unconstitutional would be a more enlightened way to hear the will of the people.
Therefore, to answer the question 'How has the United States Constitution Influenced American Values?' is that the most revolutionary significant act was to base the formation of a new country on shared values of its citizens. By clicking on the link at the end of my show notes, which is the printed transcript of this voicecast. So, please, scroll down to the end of this transcript and find the attached pdf Titled: Answering Difficult Questions Abroad: American Values, originally published at the web address: PDF (www.state.gov)
Thank you for listening, and as always, I immensely enjoyed sharing my research with you. Please, do not hesitate to contact me if you have questions or reflections to share.
Love you America, and to my listeners,
Aloha
Mayasonette Lambkiss
THE 9 VALUES AMERICANS HOLD THE HIGHEST REGARD:
extension://elhekieabhbkpmcefcoobjddigjcaadp/https://www.state.gov/courses/answeringdifficultquestions/assets/m/resources/DifficultQuestions-AmericanValues.pdf
REFERENCES:
AMERICAN VISION AND VALUES, Bellevue University Nebraska
Andrew Oldenquist', Educational Leadership, 1980, The Nature of Citizenship
America Is A Democracy, Counter Arguments, YouTube, 2019