"ROCK" AND A HARD PLACE

A "ROCK" AND A HARD PLACE Reading along in THE SUMMER OF 1787 by David O. Stewart (2007), especially those portion on the Presidency, I now more clearly see that what we view as a form of hyper-wizardry, is simply avarice and expediency under a gloss and floss of latter day American history. It is a long way, a very far cry from Plato's REPUBLIC, which patterned itself after and on ancient Egyptian, priests-led governments , whom Plato termed "philosopher-kings." As the Bible says "in that day, many will cry 'Lord, Lord!' but the Lord will reply "Begone from me Satan!"https://www.google.com/…/%3fsearch=Matthew%2b7:22-24&versio… Philosophy may have been the shill and the shell of vaunted American democracy, but its contents were and are still some graven hypocrisy. "Having the number of electors equal the total of all senators and congressmen would please the large states; it also gave extra electors to slave states through the three-fifths ratio. To gratify small states, each state cast an equal vote when the Senate decided elections. "[David] Brearley's committee changed the presidency in two other ways. He transferred important powers from the Senate to the president, who now would make treaties and appoint ambassadors and Supreme Court justices (subject to Senate approval). Also, the committee moved impeachment trials from the courts to the Senate, making them more political." P. 214 Delegate David Brearley of New Jersey chaired the "Committee on Postponed Parts", a fitting name for the small body to which matters were referred for many matters deemed to be too cumbersome or too quarrelsome to be resolved in gamboling regular sessions of the Constitutional Convention of 1787; a gathering called to amend the 1781 Articles of Confederation; but which morphed into far more! The ancient Egyptian government that lasted for over 10,000 years, at least, according to Plato, was built upon a "rock." That "rock" being nature in the sky and on earth as symbolized in a pyramid's Benben, or pyramidion, at the rock's apex.