Assymetric America

Symmetry generally conveys two primary meanings: The first is an imprecise sense of harmonious or aesthetically pleasing proportionality and balance on either side of an axis, such that it reflects beauty or perfection. The second meaning is a precise and well-defined concept of balance or "patterned self-similarity" that can be demonstrated or proved according to the rules of a formal system.

In the case of America, the harmonious proportionality was bestowed upon this great country in the form of the Constitution of the United States of America. This document establishes the governing principles of limited Federal government with few and enumerated powers. The real power of governance is resigned to the people, thus establishing the balance on either side of an axis. This formal system provides the rules that defines the concept of balance: a Constitutional Republic.

Today, we increasingly find an asymmetric America; the absence or violation of the harmonious proportions of powers defined by the Constitution. We continually find a Federal government which increasingly bestows upon itself more and more power contrary to the few and specific powers granted it by the Constitution. Meanwhile, the people's rights, liberties, and powers are correspondingly becoming fewer and fewer.

In writing the Constitution, the Founding Fathers enumerating certain rights to be retained by the people in the first eight Amendments, while the Ninth Amendment and the Tenth Amendment summarily spelled out the principle of limited government. Together, these two last Amendments clarify the differences between the enumerated (as well as unenumerated) rights of the people versus the expressly codified delegated powers of the Federal government. The Ninth Amendment defines that the rights of the people do not have to be expressly written in the Constitution (i.e., do not have to be enumerated) to still be retained by the people. On the other hand, and most importantly, the Tenth Amendment defines the delegated powers of the Federal government are only authorized to be performed so long as such powers are expressly delegated to the Federal government specifically by the U.S. Constitution (i.e. if it doesn't say they can do it in the Constitution, they can't).

Yet today, we find a Federal government nationalizing industry, financial institutions, and attempting the same for health care. None of those actions are expressly enumerated in the Constitution. Furthermore, personal liberty is being systematically eroded through successive legislation titled with pejoratives such as "security" and "protection", which provide neither.

So, if symmetry is an America were the Head of State and other officials are elected as representatives of the people, they must govern according to existing constitutional law that limits the government's power over citizens. The executive, legislative, and judicial powers are separated into distinct branches and the will of the majority of the population is tempered by protections for individual rights so that no individual or group has absolute power... Then, the absence of this is asymmetry. Hence, Asymmetric America.