How The American Nobility Undermines Constitutional Economics
When Madison was drafting the Constitution of 1787, the model of society and government that he had in mind was the British aristocracy.
Madison was dissatisfied with the first constitution, The Artices of Confederation, because it was based upon decentralized state power, which was detrimental to the financial interests of America’s natural aristocracy.
In his framework, the American nobility would have their own branch of government, the Senate, that functioned like the British House of Lords.
One of the most difficult decisions during the convention was how to create the office of a King, which revolved around what title to give the chief executive.
Many of the 37 natural aristocracy delegates of the Convention, who met in secret, wanted to name the chief executive the King, which was finally replaced with the title President.
Madison’s model of the British aristocracy has continued to plague social class divisions in modern America.
His centralized government divided powers among the elite, and insulated the elite power from the will of the citizens.
His system of centralized power was eventually captured by a new form of aristocracy that sees itself as citizens of the world, not citizens of a sovereign nation.
Madison succeeded too well in his mission of insulating the agencies of government from the will of the citizens, and in this current form of government, the citizens, themselves, have no way of correcting the power of the central government.
Madison never dreamed that special financial interests, which he called “factions” would ever devolve into a unified global Marxist ideology, that unites all political interests of both the Democrats and the Republicans.
In the new uni-party politics of the United States, the Republicans seek money, and the Democrats seek power, and the two parties collaborate and cooperate on attaining their goals.
Angelo Codevilla described the American nobility in his book, The Ruling Class: How They Corrupted America and what We Can Do about it (2010).
Codevilla describes a very broad network of relationships among political, corporate, academic, and media elites. They go to the same schools, marry into each other’s families, attend the same poitical events, and use their money to lobby in DC for favored economic and financial policies.
The American nobility has a coherent social class ideology and the money to maintain their privileged positions in American society.
The American nobility hold cultural and moral values that conflict with the values of ordinary middle and working class citizens, and they use their unearned privileges to centralize and consolidate power in the DC swamp.
Core Cultural Values of the American Nobility Ruling Class:
Centralized Political Control and Elite Decision Making:
• The ruling class values centralized authority and trust in the credentialed experts to manage complex systems, as captured by the phrase during Covid, “Trust the experts.”
• The ruling class favors national or global frameworks, such as non-government organizations (NGO), federal regulations or international agreements, believing these ensure their ongoing control over social decisions.
• They advocate for global policies like technocratic climate mandates or centralized healthcare systems, prioritizing global policies over local autonomy.
• They favor global economic policies like NAFTA, and use the rhetoric of “free trade” to promote economic policies that devastate the living condition of the middle and working class.
• They promote global and regional war to maintain the U. S. position as a global military and economic power.
Social Class Privilege and Entitlement:
• The ruling class favors social connections and rewards based upon class privileges, rather than merit.
• The nobility has a social class consciousness and sees itself as entitled to influence and wealth due to its credentials, connections, or family wealth.
• The ruling class often leverages networks and insider access to maintain power, viewing such advantages as deserved. James Buchanan has characterized this part of their values as “Crony Capitalism.”
• They secure elite positions in corporation and government through Ivy League degrees or family connections, and rotate jobs between the private sector and government as if it was a revolving door.
Ideological Conformity:
- The ruling class uses ideological propaganda in the media to prioritize social or cultural agendas that align with their worldview, to the financial detriment of the middle and working classes.
- The ruling class seeks to eliminate opinions and thoughts that are contrary to their ideology through censorship and government power over media outlets.
- The ruling class identifies its social class interests with global institutions, cosmopolitan values, and urban cultural hubs, sometimes viewing national or local loyalties as parochial, or “fly-over-country.”.
- The ruling class prioritizes the financial welfare of global corporations over the welfare of common citizens, captured by the phrase “What’s good for General Motors is good for the country.”
Self-Preservation and Insulation From the Consequences of Their Globalist Agenda:
• The ruling class seeks to insulate itself from the consequences of its policies through generational family wealth, gated communities, or exclusive networks that are closed to ordinary, common citizens.
• Elites advocate open borders or global trade deals while living in areas shielded from their impacts, unlike working-class communities facing wage suppression and job insecurity.
Madison’s constitutional rules worked well for the American nobility for 200 years, during a time when the elites still expressed loyalty to the nation.
What changed, around 1990, was the nobility’s replacement of the moral value of nationalism with their quest for a one-world-government.
Madison’s framework of checks and balances do not work in the globalist environment when elected leaders and government agencies owe their financial welfare to the promotion of the globalist agenda, not to representing the interests of the people who elected them.
Our website advocates fair constitutional rules that work for everyone, not just the elite.
Decentralized political power and fair constitutional rules would work better for middle class citizens than Madison’s currently defective constitution.
Constitutional economics would curb the predatory elite behavior of using the crony capitalist system to benefit themselves by stating, in the new Preamble, that the defense of individual freedom, unequivocally, is the mission of the nation.