Benjamin Franklin George Washington
John Adams James Madison
Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton
1/27/2014
Washington and Madison Warned Against Parties
Founding Fathers Warned Us About Political Parties
GEORGE WASHINGTON
George Washington in his final Farewell Address warned . . .
“The Spirit of Party in popular governments is seen in its greatest rankness, and is truly their worst enemy.”
“The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension is itself a frightful despotism.”
“The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of Party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of wise People to discourage and restrain it.”
“It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another.”
Washington warned Parties . . .
“misrepresent the opinions and aims of other parties.”
“cause jealousies and heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations.”
“tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.”
JAMES MADISON
James Madison, “Father of the Constitution” and fourth president, diagnosed the problem of parties as a republic’s most dire threat in his famous Federalist #10:
Among the numerous advantages promised by a well-constructed Union, none deserves to be more accurately developed than its tendency to break and control the violence of parties.
The friend of popular governments never finds himself so much alarmed for their character and fate, as when he contemplates their propensity to this dangerous vice (parties).
The instability, injustice, and confusion introduced into the public councils (by parties), have, in truth, been the mortal diseases under which popular governments have everywhere perished.
1/26/2014
Eagle I mascot
Eagle I is mascot for Youra Independent. That is an I, not a 1. He is Eagle "I" as in Eagle "Eye." The "I" is the singular, personal pronoun. The "I" stands for the "I" in each of us. The name goes along with "I"ndependent, as in "You're independent" and "I'm independent." Eagle I is the handiwork of cartoonist Dan Youra. The eagle represents the characteristics of the independent self, the independent person, who lives the more independent life, far from the herds of sheep, horses, donkeys and elephants. See more of Eagle I in the Cartoon Section of this website. See more of Eagle I on products and souvenirs in the Catalog of the website.1/25/2014
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American Independent Party
by Cody Quirk
An organizational convention for the National Alliance of Independent American Parties was held at the American Heritage Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada on Saturday, January 18th of this year. The political parties in attendance were the National Independent American Party, the National American Party, and unofficial representatives of the National Constitution Party. - Ream more at Report
1/24/2014
More Independents Than Ever
Click to Read Article in The Washington Post Jan 8, 2014
More people say they are independents than ever before! So?
Film "The Party's Over"
Movie trailer: The Party's Over [Political Documentary Philip Seymour Hoffman]
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