Monday, May 27, 2013

Utopia



Utopia 

is our
Waking Up
to  realize
in substantial
numbers
that our
Constitution is
relational..
collective/
individual
is the polarity
we need know..
not balance
we seek but
continuing
re-balance..
a flow
pole toward
pole..
one surface
two sides...


The proposed Constitution, therefore, [even when tested by the rules laid down by its antagonists,][1] is, in strictness, neither a national nor a federal Constitution, but a composition of both. In its foundation it is federal, not national; in the sources from which the ordinary powers of the government are drawn, it is partly federal and partly national; in the operation of these powers, it is national, not federal; in the extent of them, again, it is federal, not national; and, finally, in the authoritative mode of introducing amendments, it is neither wholly federal nor wholly national. (James Madison, Federalist Papers # 39)

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