The purpose of an Americanized Work-Standard is essentially the same goals of the Federalist Worldview. The Federalist Worldview recognizes that the Federalist Party’s legacy reflects the shifting constellation of Federalists and Anti-Federalists who rallied around Hamiltonianism. Thus, aside from Hamilton, we can look to other old Federalists like John Jay, John Adams, John Marshall, Rufus King, Christopher Gore, and Timothy Pickering for inspiration. Others such as Benjamin Rush, Patrick Henry, Mathew Carey, Tench Coxe, Daniel Webster were also contributors to the Federalist Worldview at certain points in US History.
The values, ideas, beliefs, and concepts of the old Federalist Party must be reinvigorated by a new Federalist Party advocating for the Work-Standard. The Party shall give them their proper meaning, recontextualizing to suit the conditions of contemporary America. It has been two centuries since the old Federalist Party’s dissolution and there are certain values, ideas, beliefs, and concepts that resonate strongly with the Federalist Worldview. These resonances are not restricted to either the “American Left” or the “American Right,” implying that the Federalist Worldview is embodied by specific Ideologies and not just any one particular Ideology.
What form would the Federalist Party assume in contemporary America, given that the Federalist Worldview is incapable of being embodied by the Democrats and Republicans within the Democratic-Republican Party? That is the overriding question of this Section. We will begin by rediscovering what the rest of the Federalist Party actually professed besides establishing a National Bank and implementing Protectionist trade policies.
Role of the Federal Government
The Federalist Party intended centralization of the Federal government to only be only a means to an end. Neither Hamilton nor the Party advocated it as an end in itself. To centralize it is to engage in the necessary and proper struggle for the happiness of the American people, the American Union, as a Totality. The fundamental roles of the Federal government are to define the true meanings of Americaness, to realize the Perpetual Union, to promote the intellectual and moral uplifting of the American people, and to cultivate the economic and financial flourishing of the Union.
An active, energetic Presidency becomes justifiable when the President of the United States governs as the first servant of the American people. The President serves the American Union as the Totality, cooperates with Congress to establish the Federal Legal Code, and is held accountable to the Constitution by the Supreme Court and the States. Carrying out the Destiny of the Union is a “Natural Aristocracy,” originally defined as being comprised of the most fervent and committed Americans in the Federal and State Civil Services.
The Natural Aristocracy prior to the Work-Standard meant the Federal and State Bureaucracies. Under the Work-Standard, the Natural Aristocracy concept will become democratized into a “Aristocracy of Work.” This Work-Aristocracy is led by a worker-soldier-scholar personality that any American is capable of striving toward by means of the Work-Standard. It is neither a technocracy of experts nor a plutocracy of businessmen but solely the governance of those who have proven themselves worthy of embodying the very definitions of Americaness.
Americaness cannot be found by consulting and interpreting the Constitution, for the Federalist Party knew that it lacks the required foundation to promote a genuine National Culture. It is the imperative of the Federal government, under the control of the American Union, to create a National Culture befitting of the American National Identity and National Essence. At the heart of the Americaness emanating from the Work-Aristocracy is a Federalist Worldview that is both Pluralist and Nationalist.
“Open Nationalism”
The Open Nationalism of the Federalist Worldview is what separates it from Civic Nationalism and Ethnonationalism, both of which emanate from Jeffersonianism and the Democratic-Republican Party. Americaness cannot be restricted to mere participation in elections and transactional sales. It has to find its proper meanings through interpersonal interactions across different people’s communities and religious congregations.
Americaness cannot defined by simply claiming American citizenship. Either their soul resonates with the American Essence or it does not. Either they have sworn a sacred oath of allegiance to the Union or they refused to swear by it.
It is because of the belief that the American people and the rest of humanity have souls that the concept of Race cannot be defined through biological and genetic conditions. Race is a social construct, a centuries-long process of psychological and psychic conditioning. No Race should ever be considered to be inferior or superior to another Race, just as how no one authentically genuine version of Pure Socialism (be it Scientific or Artistic) should ever be considered as superior or inferior to another Pure Socialism. Every nation, including America, has its own Socialism. It is for these reasons that the Federalist Worldview is openly contemptuous toward the Racial Nationalists and any American Socialist adhering to the Jeffersonian Worldview.
The Federalist Worldview’s Open Nationalism actively encourages the participation of American women and children, Foreigners and Native Americans within everyday political, economic and social life. True freedom is inseparable from the Union, including its most vulnerable and least fortunate. The Federal government can and should collaborate with the States and the Union to ensure that all Americans are given Meaningful Work and entitled to the fair treatment that they rightfully deserve. Only then can the American people grow stronger and become more united by their shared Destiny as a Perpetual Union. The Perpetual Union is timeless and therefore unchangeable for as long as the American people continues to exist.
Another important, yet peculiar distinction of the Federalist Worldview’s Open Nationalism is its attitudes toward American Independence. American Independence is still being recognized by the Federal government and the American people as having occurred on “July 4, 1776.” This Open Nationalism, by contrast, argues that it actually occurred two days earlier on “July 2, 1776.” While not being a significant peculiarity on its own, but when combined with other characteristics that distinguish it from the Jeffersonians, it becomes an impactful difference.
On Technology and Religion
Technology should be developed in accordance with the Constitution and imbued with a specific set of values in mind. Great vigilance should always be upheld when evaluating the necessity and efficacy of emerging technologies. In addition to economic and financial flourishing, Technology should also assist the Federal and State governments in providing the American people a shared sense of national solidarity and intellectual definition. Any Meaningful Work that comes from Technology must contribute to the ennoblement of the American people, bestowing them with a life-affirming purpose, commitment to national service, and both moral and intellectual development. Like the Work-Aristocracy that shall personify the Work-Standard, the Technology employed by this Work-Aristocracy shall hold in contempt “‘luxury’” and “opulence” for it is “‘the effeminate debaser of the soul, the corrupt impoverisher of the mind’ and ‘the vicious parent of innumerable evils.’” Technology shall be designed with timeless values of “‘frugality, virtue and simplicity’” in their overall construction and implementation.
The purpose of Technology is to assist the American people in the conduct of Meaningful Work, exercising self-discipline and loyalty to an enjoyable Vocation. In a world where Life revolves around Work itself, Technology must allow the Union to eschew Kapital and Schuld in favor of Arbeit and Geld. Every new Technology developed will facilitate newer opportunities for additional sources of Arbeit and Geld. Technology should enhance the overall capabilities an existing Vocation rather than diminish them. In circumstances where it is unavoidable that Technology will destroy the Vocations, Congress must be allowed to exercise its constitutional power to guide the development of Technology at the behest of the Work-Aristocracy through the Council Democratic process.
Whether in the political life, the economic life, or the social life, Americaness is embodied by the necessity of a “‘sound moral character’” befitting of an equally “‘sound political character.’” This cannot be achieved by nationalizing irreligiousness vis-à-vis Secularism or religiousness vis-à-vis a particular religion. It will also not be fulfilled by a Cult of Personality from the Party. True to its Open Nationalism, the Party welcomes all religions of the Union whenever possible, encouraging the political-economic and socio-cultural participation of religious congregations.
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