Congressman Tom Tancredo in New Hampshire--Sept. 25, 2005

Granite State Happenings

Photos courtesy New Hampshire Center for Constitutional Studies

September 25, 2005--Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO) was the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Center for Constitutional Studies' Ninth Annual Dinner Celebration in honor of Constitution Day.

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Congressman Tom Tancredo
New Hampshire Center for Constitutional Studies

NHCCS was founded in January 1997. Chair Dianne Gilbert writes (Oct. 9, 2005 e-mail):
"We don't have a democratic form of government; per the United States Constitution we have set up a republican frame of government and to ensure that the thirteen small republics that preceded the national one stayed that way... Article 4 Section 4 of the United States Constitution guarantees to every state a republican form of government.
"...It is imperative that people not be taught or led to believe that they live in a democracy. Our nation's founding fathers purposely avoided that frame of government because they knew that democracies were not compatible with personal liberty or private property. As avid students of history, they understood democracies to be spectacles of turbulence and knew well of their tendency to degrade into mob rule and eventually implode and die. The Framers of our government intended our national government to last for the ages - the fact that it has become the monolith that it has is because too many people think in the context of a mob... Our Constitution limits what people can demand of government and therefore what government can feed back to the people per their whims; that is the message that needs to be propagated."