Email from OCPAC Stitt v Walters mirrors the nation's political squabble of 1798 Published Monday, February 17, 2025 NEXT MEETING MEETING 2025 March 5, 2025 Featuring: COUNTERING GENDER IDEOLOGY Dr. Lauren Schwartz SEE DETAILS BELOW. Send this newsletter to a friend here. BOB LINN The Political Course Correction of 1798 State Attorney General, Gentner Drummond, and the rest of the political left in Oklahoma, are using the rift between the Governor and State Education Superintendent as a political heyday. High-profile and very public political rifts are not new. When President John Adams lent his support to the 1798 Alien and Sedition Acts, a tsunami of not-so-nice things were said in a very public way. The acts of 1798 expanded the executive powers of John Adams and limited free speech. Adams used the act to silence his political detractors. Adams’s outspoken critics, including Vermont's U.S. Congressman, Matthew Lyon, were sent to prison. For expressing their political opinion! In America! Find a few of these stories here. In the opinion of both Vice President Thomas Jefferson and Secretary of State, James Madison, these acts violated the U.S. Constitution. In Madison’s mind, they reflected the arrogance and sin of President John Adams. Syracuse University’s professor Ralph Ketcham wrote that the act was passed by the U.S. Senate and House after an editorial by Benjamin Bache, editor of the Philadelphia Aurora (aka the Aurora General Advisor), criticized the administration and spoke of Adams as old, querulous, bald, blind, crippled, toothless . . . Find it in his book James Madison here. Dr. Garrett Ward Sheldon of Princeton fame lets us know that the verbal fireworks of 1798 were launched not just from the Philadelphia newspaper, but from Secretary of State (and future President) James Madison himself. Sheldon writes: President John Adams was the quintessential sinner, in Madison’s eyes. He was proud, vain, overly sensitive to slights, constantly seeking praise, and harsh toward his critics. Madison observed Adams’s “pompous vanity,” which soon displayed itself in “a sense of ambition” and “violent passions,” and he found the president’s speeches “abominable and degrading,” leading to “artful and wicked” schemes. When compared to the rhetoric of these three men, all of whom would serve as U.S. Presidents, the political sparks we heard last week in Oklahoma are quite tame. In response to the Alien and Sedition acts, Jefferson and Madison crafted the Resolutions of Kentucky (Jefferson) and the Resolutions of Virginia (Madison). Madison represented, with Jefferson, the classical republican (states rights) end of the political spectrum. Adams, a Federalist, represented the opposition party, the party currently in power in 1798. Madison’s arguments were central not only to the defeat of the Alien and Sedition Acts, but to a sea change in American politics. Adams and the Federalist party lost to the Democrat-Republican (states rights) party giving Thomas Jefferson the presidency in 1800. Madison’s Virginia Resolutions (December 21, 1798) stated: The alien and sedition acts exercise a power nowhere delegated to the federal government, power not delegated by the constitution, but on the contrary expressly and positively forbidden. Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolutions were adopted the previous month (November 01, 1798). Jefferson used even stronger language, stating that the Alien and Seduction Acts were: An undisguised declaration that the Central Government will bind the states by laws made, not with their consent, but against their consent. Madison’s rhetorical skills were employed to articulate the concept of classical republican ideals, their support of states rights, and their opposition to a heavy-handed federal government. All of this resonated with the American people. As a result, the Federal Party with its top-down ideals faded away. In 1800, the American people elected Thomas Jefferson as the third President of the United States. ___________ While the personal jabs which have been a part of the fight to restore education in Oklahoma have been regretful, the “anti-Federalist sentiment” which has defined Ryan Walters and The Oklahoma Board of Education is a trait Oklahoma’s parents have found admirable. EDUCATIONAL CHOICE The anti-tyranny sentiment of both Jefferson and Madison resonated with Americans in 1798. It has resonated strongly in Oklahoma with parents who want complete authority over the education of their children and resent anyone who would step between them and their child. FUNDING THE EDUCATION OF ILLEGALS Ryan Walters believes that we, the people, are the funding source of all Government expense accounts. We should therefore have the final say as to whether we want the government to use our fiduciary education dollars to pay to educate the children of illegal aliens. The accounting authority over tax dollars rests with the wage earner and not the government. Both Walters and Governor Stitt agree that parents should be the only voice as to where their education dollars are sent. Only in a tyranny would a parent be denied using his educational dollars in the school of his choice, as the Oklahoma’s Attorney General contends in his lawsuit against the best interests of St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, its children, and their families. We were headed toward a tyranny in 1798. Tyrants abound in 2025. May God raise up men like Jefferson and Madison who will help us find our way back to freedom and the Godly respect for the citizen and their families. ________________ I hope many of you will make plans to attend the Oklahoma State Board of Education meeting a week from this Thursday (February 27). It begins at 9:30 AM and the doors open at 8 AM. You may sign up to speak between 8 AM and 9:30 AM. 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