Farewell to America… (Part Two)

In these statements, Washington clearly emphasizes the importance of protection of the union in the bond between the States as this bond, in and of itself, (the U.S. Constitution), was designed to ensure protection of America, her Peoples, as well as her Prosperity as a Nation.   This was considered the pillar supporting the Non-Partisan ideals of Independence and Freedoms for All People in America as outlined in the Declaration of Independence.

He further relates these as individual values to the American people; in that, although they may be of different States, it is the work towards Independence and Liberty that was the common bond between the States themselves despite their personal agendas that brought about Liberty and the Hope of Prosperity to America and her People.

Again, from the Farewell Speech…

“For this you have every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens, by birth or choice, of a common country, that country have a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits, and political principles. You have in a common cause fought and triumphed together; the Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint counsels, and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings, and successes.”

“But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those, which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the Union of the whole.”

With a nonpartisan system… No official political parties exist; for often when a political party is governing the peoples, restrictions on political parties are created in an effort to turn the tides of events in the political arena favoring one party’s agenda over another….

We had seen this in the Red and Blue tale spin at the ballot box which removed Al Gore (a Democrat – political party one) from the Presidential Office, replacing him with George Bush (a Republican – political party two); this was all blamed on the electoral processes itself and that ambiguous entity, “The Hanging Chad!”   

In recounting these unusual events, Justice Antonin Scalia was quoted as stating… 

“The counting of votes of questionable legality has done irreparable harm not just to petitioner Bush but to the country as a whole. Indeed, how far has this August body fallen that we might contemplate as reasonable the perversion of an election and the awarding of the highest office in the land to a man—never has the term been more laughably conferred—who could not even carry his home state. We have abrogated reason and truth in favor of a consoling liberal fiction, a farce of wish-fulfillment identity politics.”

Why did George Washington feel that the two party system was a threat to the American Constitution’s purpose?