Clinton Roosevelt demands ultimate, but not immediate,…

Clinton Roosevelt demands ultimate, but not immediate, abandonment of the Constitution.

An early and prominent member of the Locofocos, or Equal Rights Party, a radical faction of the Democratic Party, Roosevelt had been elected to the New York State Assembly in 1836 and served one year.

An opponent of the monopoly banking system, Roosevelt had cited bank paper currency as the cause of economic problems.

After the Panic of 1837, when New York's economy worsened and the working population suffered, he had changed his views, calling for an entirely new economic system with greater government involvement.

In his sole literary effort, he writes The Science of Government Founded on Natural Law in 1841, proposing a scheme presaging his distant cousin FDR’s 1930s-era New Deal for economic planning and control of society by the few. (Allegedly an outline of Illuminati plans to regiment humankind under the control of the “enlightened ones” and the destruction of written constitutions, only two copies of this rare booklet exist.)

In the form of a Socratic discussion between author Roosevelt and a "Producer" presumably representing the rest of us (i.e., the many), Roosevelt proposes a totalitarian government along the lines of George Orwell's 1984 society, where all individuality is submerged to a collective run by an elitist aristocratic group (i.e., the few) who enact all legislation.