The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-11-17

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labor is perpetrated in all its CHASTITY
forms because the constitution up
holds it. Bullets of miltarism NOV
down women and children and sol
diers in national guard uniforms
burn them alive because the constitu-
ton protects them, Upon the author
ty ~ tnat docum nj lne outstanding
figures in the vanguard of the labor
movement are jailed for expressions
of opinion. There is no nefarious
conspiracy against labor that does
not rest upon the constitution for its
justification.
LIBERAL Deception.
One Of the functions of the liberals
in preserving capitalism is always to
bark back to the constitution; to in
sist upon its provisions for the exer-
else of pure democracy" being pre-
served. As Lenin SO well said, the
very concept of anything being pure"
is a bourgeois delusion, an unscientfic
term that has nothing whatsoever to
do with dialectics. Under Glass rule
here can be no such thing as impair.
tial democratic privileges for all.
When considering democracy we
must view it as the democracy of a
class-today either as proletarian
democracy or capitalist democracy.
Not only liberals, but socialists
(who are semi-liberals) also suffer
from the illusion of bourgeois democ-
racy and actually proclaim the pos
sibility Of a gradual growth into So
cialism within the confines of the con-
stitution.
Far from upholding any semblance
of democracy the one impelling mo-
tive of those who created the consti-
tuition was hostile distrust of the
ability of the people within the
thirteen colonies to govern them
selves. 1t was so constructed that
the government was organized upon
the principle of a system of checks
and balances that would prevent the
mob" effectively achieving any bene-
fits thru legal channels. : Provision
was made for triplicate form of gov
eminent, comprising the legislative,
executive and judicial
How It Works. N
In the first division of the govern
ment two houses of congress were
created known as the lower house
and the upper house The house of
is supposed to be
composed of one representative for
each 10000 population within the
states. while the senate is created on
the basis Of two senator's from each
state regardless of population. Bills
in the house must pass the
senate before they can be referred
to the executive (president) and be-
come law. Here is the first check.
The senate can override the house.
The next division is the executive.
The president must sign all bills, and
if, for any reason, he does not desire
to accept them he simply vetoes them
and sends them back to the house
or senate depending upon their ORR
GIN and after the objections are con-
sidered the bill may again be voted
upon, but cannot become law unless
a two-thirds majority of both houses
vote for it. Thus 33 senators, repre-
senting 1914 states and total popu-
lation of S.5O2,572, can prevent legis-
lation favored by representatives of
the other 1OOOOO,0O0 population. of the
country. In other words representa-
tives in the senate of less than one
tenth of the population can defeat the
desires of representatives Of the other
Yet this is the country
whose government boasts that it will
not recognize Russia because its gov
ernnment is not democratic, in spite
of the known fact that the Soviet sys-
tenn is thousand times more demo-
cratic than our own much Wanted
system.
The third division is the gem of the
whole thing. That is the United