Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearings
Political Rhetoric, Nation divided against itself
A Republic of diverse notions as to Governance
The 'radical transformation', the People's Will
Dictates, nebulous coalitions, your Vote, Voice
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Political Powers not delegated by the US Constitution
The Virtues of a Federal System, the States, the People
The Executive Branch, inbred Bureaucratic apparatus
Education, Health, Employment, Agriculture, Commerce Energy, Housing,... – by 1PoetUSA | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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Tenth Amendment, Powers not delegated
Citizens, States, the Federal Government
Constitutional Discourse, Debate, Dialogue
Pamphlets, Press & Private Correspondence
State Conventions & Popular Campaigns
Grand Inquest for the Nation, its... – by 1PoetUSA | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Of the Omnipotence of our Society's Majority
Education Content, Coursework & Curricula
Government run, union staffed, board supervised
Distanced, masked & vaccinated classrooms
History of Pedagogical America, reliable informants
Origin &... – by 1PoetUSA | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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Framers, our Constitutional Republic
Limiting power, wealth & presence
An Electorate educated Spirit & Word
Coursework in Civics, Citizens Exam
Rationale, this Method of Governance
Name your Representative, your Senator
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Frederick Douglass, Hillsdale College
Ladies Literary Union, January 21, 1863
Spoke of popular error, of unpopular Truth
The former, new & old, the later, ageless
Constitution enacted for Citizens regardless
Trust in the operation of Saving... – by 1PoetUSA | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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Calls for the radical transformation of America
Alienate the inalienable, thus none care call it
Visions of the anointed, Voice of the People
Equity in our social life, none in real estate
Moses & the Promised Land, public housing
Utopia,... – by 1PoetUSA | 2 Views added 1 year ago
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Cable opinionizers, talk show panels, pundits
Political left, political right, non-partisan center
Streams of soundbites, political consciousness
Reference to our Lexicon of Political Terminology
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Foundation, this Republic, these United States
The Perennial Principles of Optimal Governance
The 18th Century Ethos of its Founding Citizens
ThecConstitutional Governance, the Rule of Law
From Current Events weave Tapestries of History
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Illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station
& yet his Library of 990 Books & 1200 Titles
Military Science, Philosophy, Politics, History
Literature, Plays & Reference Books, English,
Latin, French, Dutch with Plato, Cicero, Locke
Marginalia,... – by 1PoetUSA | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Education in & of & for America
Our Republic, Race & Redemption
Nation of Nations as our Anthem
Our Myth, Identity, Historic Era
Liberty has a Country one hears
Pro/Anti-slavery, debates of 1858
Then strange & portentous events
Frederick... – by 1PoetUSA | 0 Views added 1 year ago
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One Economic System for the Ages
For our Age our own interventions
Wars on poverty, inequity & need
To each according to state dictate
Advocates & activists in our behalf
& attorneys to legalize confiscation
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Select Members of Congress, Social Media
Those capitalists, their profits before people
The Clean Air ACT against the bottom line
Government usurping Economic Technology
Research, 101 Independence Avenue, SE
Adam Smith, Frederic Bastiat, F A... – by 1PoetUSA | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Natural Inalienable Rights, Social Compact
Citizens: Liberty! Vigilance! Enterprise!
Farms, Factories, Commerce & Transport
Timeless Spirit for our Secular Society
Lawful Administration of Ethical Governance
The Wealth of Nations, Its Nature &... – by 1PoetUSA | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Federal Government, explict & defined
Medicare, Medicaid, Affordable Care Act
& the Congress shall have the power to
Chamber of Commerce, Federal Reserve
Historic expansion of enumerated powers
Protect our Rights, guarantee our Welfare
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Humanity, by Nature, lifelong Learning
Civic Knowledge as to Self-governance
Compulsory education in state schools
Textbooks for a Constitutional Republic
Declaring Independence & Rule of Law
To establish Ideas in the American Mind
Propagated... – by 1PoetUSA | 3 Views added 1 year ago
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Rotunda, Flagship Building, Political Architecture
National Archives & Records Administration Report
Freedom & Eternal Vigilance: Ida B.Wells-Barnett
Memphis Free Speech & Highlight on threadbare lies
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Freedom in the Poetic Persona, Voice, Vision & Verse
Liberty for our Sovereign Citizens in the Political Forum
Independence for Moral Agents for Ethical Civil Society
This Constitutional Republic for Self-governing Citizens
Conscience, Oratory &... – by 1PoetUSA | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Our Government? A Republic if
Self-governing Sovereign Citizens
As Individuals, as We the People
Civil Society, servant to ourselves
United Nation, more perfect Union
Braving Horizons of Human History
Establishing Judgement & Justice
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An Act for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery, 1780
Our Duty, our Power, a portion of that Freedom
Be it enacted & provided always & further enacted
All servitude for Life hereby forever abolished
John Bayard, Speaker, Enabled into Law,... – by 1PoetUSA | 1 View added 1 year ago
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Federal Convention, Philadelphia in 1787
Debates that Government has no other end
Sovereign States, Articles of Confederation
To remedy defects, revise the Federal System
Form, establish, ensure, provide, promote
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Lucy Terry Prince, Singer of Colonial History
Griot of Deerfield, Praise Singer, Story Teller
New England 's Melic Poet, American Muse
Bars Fight, a Ballad, August 'twas the 25th
Holland's History of Western Massachusetts
Freedom, Property... – by 1PoetUSA | 4 Views added 1 year ago
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All Sovereign Citizens of these United States
Hear the Revolutionary Poetry of our Republic
Campsite Voices beckoning from Valley Forge
Stand forth, oppose the tyrant & the tyranny
Therefore shall we Dialogue in Online Forum
Pioneers traverse... – by 1PoetUSA | 1 View added 1 year ago
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