THE COMMUNIST CONTROL ACT

 

          Communist Control Act of 1954

 

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Communist Control Act of 1954

Long title	An Act to outlaw the Communist Party, to prohibit members of Communist organizations from serving in certain representative capacities, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)	CCA
Enacted by	the 83rd United States Congress
Effective	August 24, 1954
Citations
Public law	83-637
Statutes at Large	68 Stat. 775
Codification
Titles amended	50 U.S.C.: War and National Defense
U.S.C. sections created	50 U.S.C. ch. 23, subch. IV § 841 et seq.
Legislative history
Introduced in the Senate as S. 3706 by John Marshall Butler (R–MD) on July 6, 1954 Committee consideration by Senate Judiciary Passed the Senate on August 12, 1954 (85–0) Passed the House on August 16, 1954 (305–2) Reported by the joint conference committee on August 19, 1954; agreed to by the Senate on August 19, 1954 (79–0) and by the House on August 19, 1954 (266–2) Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on August 24, 1954

Anti-communism

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) platform calls for steps toward abolishing the police and prison system, significantly reducing the U.S. military budget while closing overseas bases, and eliminating the U.S. Senate, though it does not propose abolishing the entire Congress.

Would not this severely alter our constitution ? Police and Prisons Abolition goal: Advocates for cutting police budgets annually toward zero as a step to fully abolish the police and prison system. Reinvestment: Proposes redirecting funds from law enforcement into community-based public safety housing and health care. Article 4 section 4 of the United States Constitution - The Guarantee Clause The Guarantee Clause requires the United States to guarantee to the states a republican form of government, and provide protection from foreign invasion and domestic violence. Although rarely formally invoked by Congress, the President, or the courts, there is some consensus on what it means. At its core, the Guarantee Clause provides for majority rule. A republican government is one in which the people govern through elections. This is the constant refrain of the Federalist Papers. Alexander Hamilton, for example, put it this way in The Federalist No. 57: “The elective mode of obtaining rulers is the characteristic policy of republican government.” Thus, the Guarantee Clause imposes limitations on the type of government a state may have. The Clause requires the United States to prevent any state from imposing rule by monarchy, dictatorship, aristocracy, or permanent military rule, even through majority vote. Instead, governing by electoral processes is constitutionally required. The Democrat Socialists of Americas platform in many ways would abolish much of the Constitution.  It should be very plain that Socialism is contrary to our Republic therefore it should be outlawed.

The Communist control act, which is still on the books, abolished Socialism or Communism and deemed both to be in direct opposition to the Constitution of the United States of America.

This act is still on the books but has never been enforced.

The Communist Control Act of 1954 (68 Stat. 775, 50 U.S.C. §§ 841–844) is an American law signed by President Dwight Eisenhower on August 24, 1954, that outlawed the Communist Party USA and criminalized membership in or support for the party or "Communist-action organizations", on the basis that communists allegedly vowed to overthrow the government of the United States.  The act also defines evidence to be considered by a jury in determining participation in the activities, planning, actions, objectives, or purposes of such organizations.

 Background

 

Created during the period of the Second Red Scare (1946–1954), the act was one of many bills drafted with the intention of protecting the American government from the supposed threat posed by international communists.  During this time, some argued that "the pursuit of subversive aims even by peaceful means should be outlawed."  Thus, many opposed communism because of its explicitly declared and historically demonstrable goal to undermine liberal democracy. In the words of Ernest van den Haag, there was "no place in democracy for those who want to abolish [it] even with a peaceful vote".

Act

The Communist Control Act of 1954 was originally proposed as an amendment to the Internal Security Act of 1950, which had sought to combat the spread of communism in labor unions.  Apart from its secondary focus which concentrated on the illegality of "communist front organizations" (i.e. labor unions),  the bill was drafted with the intention of tackling the root of pro-communist sentiment in the United States: the Communist Party. In its second section, the Communist Control Act characterized the Communist Party as an "agency of a hostile foreign power".  The party was described as an "instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the government" and a "clear, present, and continuing danger to the security of the United States".

The act made membership in the Communist Party a criminal act and stipulated that all party members would be sanctioned with up to a $10,000 fine or imprisonment for five years or both if they failed to register with the U.S. Attorney General as such. Additionally, according to the third section, the Communist Party would be deprived of "the rights, privileges, and immunities of a legal body".

The Internal Security Act of 1950 had defined two types of "communist organizations". Republican Senator Hugh A. Butler of Nebraska later proposed a bill aimed at the removal of Communists from leadership positions in labor unions by designating "communist-infiltrated organizations" as a third class of communist organization. Afterward, Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota put forward a substitute to that bill with the intention of directly tackling the "root of evil", the Communist Party members.  Through an amendment by Democratic Senator Price Daniel of Texas, both the Butler and Humphrey bills were merged into one. The final version of the bill was passed unanimously in the Senate. The House of Representatives also made additions to the bill, including a section which listed the criteria for "determining what constitutes membership in the [Communist] Party and related organizations".

Today we are seeing many Democrat socialists being elected to various state, local and federal government offices. They have also performed well in winning primaries by defeating more moderate democrats. There seems to be a segment of the voting public that favors these Democrat socialists.  Remember the the Communists Control Act outlaws Communism even if it is supported by popular vote and that the Constitution guarantees all states a republican form of government.  What we are watching is the rise of a real threat to our constitutional republic.