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Scientific government versus Democratic government.What separates these two forms of government is mankind's commitment to fundamental principles. This commitment is the foundation of the scientific system of government. The lack of such a commitment leads to the virtual 'privatization' of law, which is what the majority rule represents. If public opinion is overlaid with oligarchic ideology the majority rule can be disastrously destructive as it becomes a 'private' tool of the oligarchy. However, during the founding of the United States as a nation, certain fundamental truths were recognized as "self-evident" which became enshrined in a constitution that was created to be above the immediate reach of the democratic process. In a fundamental sense, constitutional law is a start-up form of scientific government. Another adaptation of the principle of scientific government was Alexander Hamilton's creation of a federal law that mandated a federal banking structure for providing low cost financial credits for the nation's economic, industrial, and infrastructural development. This law became universally applicable in all states of the union, with the result that the nation became the strongest economic power in the world. This law, very nearly, represented a rule by fundamental principle. It represented scientific government, even though it was enacted within a democratic frame. If a greater scientific alertness had been achieved at that period, this self-evident truth based on recognized fundamental principles of economics, would have been enshrined in the constitution where it would have been protected from the long arm of oligarchic agencies that are constantly intervening in the democratic process. Since this protection was lacking, the law became overturned, and the nation, even the world as a whole, suffered severely as the result thereof. What sets scientific government apart from democratic government, is the narrow choices that fundamental principles allow. Fundamental principles are not aspects created by man that one might choose, or choose something else instead for ascetic reasons, as one chooses the color and texture of the carpet from a collection of samples. Fundamental principles are singular in nature. One cannot choose where there is no choice possible due to the singular nature of fundamental principle. One can only search scientifically for the fundamental principles that so exist, that work, that generate productive results, that are squarely founded in the nature of reality - and then apply these principles which by their nature represent the ultimate and only choice, the choice that is scientifically in line with reality. If humanity chooses its course wisely, the democratic system will inevitably yield to the imperatives of fundamental principles, which by necessity, will become enshrined in constitutional law. In time, the democratic process will become obsolete as the discovery of fundamental principles becomes more complete and the application of them more precise. In the face of Truth and 'natural' law, democratic choices vanish as irrelevant. It is a considerable tragedy that this necessary process in human development is so little understood, today. The idea of democratic government is a widely understood concept. The idea has been taught in schools and is presently the most widely applied form of government on earth. But even here, its potential danger from applied failures is hardly recognized. Scientific government, on the other hand, is still quite a novel concept in spite of its relatively long history in terms of an actually working reality that goes back app. 200 years. The sad thing is, that in those historic instances when the scientific government by fundamental principle did become the governing model, the surge for freedom that resulted, that changed the course of humanity literally overnight, was deemed to have resulted from other factors, and so reality became overturned and crushed by the steam roller of democracy that was 'guided' by oligarchic interests into opposite channels. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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