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During many centuries manking has tried and search for the right type of government for the human race. A government that is fair, making life livable, it will deal with violent crimes in truth and without selective choices of who to punish and who to dismiss from liability, even when the charges are correct and the evidence shows who the criminal is.    We want social justice, education, affordable health care, housing, help to save our environment and the likes are infinite.

Over the centuries there have been many kinds of governments:   There is the Anarchy, that is no government ruling over the populace at all. We rule ourselves and everyone rules.   Anarchy reigns when there is a revolution, as the French Revolution. Murder was rampant and a lot of innocent people died who were accused of false charges but had no legal system of defense.   We had national upheaval, chaos rules because there in no one in charge of the populace and enforcing laws. These can happen during a nuclear exchange between rival countries. In a brake down of society people would do what is right in their own eyes.

Then there is the oligarchy type of government. This is a terrible government because only a few of the elite decided what is good for the masses. These handful of people will be self serving and corrupt.   Another type is monarchy.   The monarch rules with all power for life and death, making it's own decisions on what is good or bad for the nation and it's inhabitants.

The "ecclesiocracy," was a government centered on the pope. These government reign in the medieval days. The pope was above the king in power although he was not the official head of state he dominated countries in Europe. The church had a hand in raising or abolishing rules. King Henry the VIII wanted to have his marriage annuled to Katherine of Arangon so that he could marry his mistress Ann who at that time was pregnant with his child. The pope will not agree. King Henry VIII found the solution to his problem with the pope by way of Martin Luther who accussed the pope and their priest of not teaching God's laws according to the Bible. That they were not agents appointed by God here on earth with the power to forgive sins via confession and prayers to a saint or statue of a saint. That was idolitry according to the Holy Scriptures.

Henry the VIII took advantage of these new reform of Martin Luther and abolish the pope's and the church's authority. England became a Protestant country. The major supreme law was the king's.

Democracy, rule of the majority but we must keep in mind that is when the majority votes for wrong choices the country can be in trouble.  A majority making an error in judgement can destroy a nation's economic progress.

In America we have constitutional government.   Our voted chosen representatives must be hold
our constitution. When a person voted to be our new commander and chief becomes or President of USA he /she must be sworn in to uphold and defend our constitution. That is a governing document that cannot and should not be altered.   Today America is in trouble. There are forces in our government creating tensions between democratic desires and our constituion ruling principles.

I always felt that our commander and chief of our great nation should have served in the military. I cannot see how a President can rule this nation properly if they have not served in the military and is not familiar in how our line of military defense for this country works. I think is beneficial for our President to have served in the military hands on the job sort of speak. Now days, anyone born in America can be President of USA. There are some people trying to changed that rule. In other words rewrite our constituion. Our constitution is our governing power for America and these documents and it's laws cannot be voted out, if that would happen then we no longer be real, the one and only America.