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The Hartmann Report

CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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4.51.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Thom explains the extraordinary powers we grant the Supreme Court and how we allow an unelected few to make decisions for everybody in our democracy. Congressman Mark Pocan joins Thom to answer astute and fiery listener questions. Reading from Devils Bargain.

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0:17.0

This is the Tom Hartman Program. Greetings my friends, patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers in peace freedom and the

0:25.0

American way. I had a great book signing last night at Powell's. I gave a talk

0:30.4

about my new book the hidden history of Supreme Court, the betrayal of America.

0:34.6

You know, I had this conversation with a couple of people during Q&A afterwards that a lot of people

0:39.0

just really struggle with is that we were born into and by we I mean you know anybody born in the United States

0:47.1

after 1870 right so you know which is obviously none of those people are still alive

0:52.2

but basically we were all born into a country

0:55.2

that we were told was a representative Democratic

0:59.2

republic, but in fact has been a constitutional monarchy.

1:04.4

That is to say the Supreme Court

1:06.7

have set themselves up in a role traditionally held

1:10.0

by kings, queens, and other nobles in monarchical systems and kingdoms.

1:17.0

And, you know, we elect some officials who do some things, but basically at the end of the day the people who

1:24.9

actually

1:26.3

control the power the people who actually define the fate and future that

1:30.0

the warpen wolf of uh... and weave of weave of America are nine people who are not elected and who

1:37.4

serve for life and perform the functions of royalty,

1:44.8

that were not a Democratic republic, were constitutional monarchy,

1:46.2

and the monarchs of these nine people

1:47.9

on the Supreme Court.

1:49.2

And it's like, people keep saying,

1:51.7

but, you know, somebody's got to decide well. Yeah. I mean this was the letter to Jefferson

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