Ted Cruz Rhetorical Analysis

My fellow caucus participants, I stand before you today in support of the only Republican candidate suitable for the position of President of the United States of America, Senator Ted Cruz. Senator Cruz’s Five for Freedom plan would be widely applauded by our country’s Founding Fathers, as it calls for a smaller federal government and delegation of more powers to the states. The Founding Fathers, having just led the nascent country through the Revolutionary War, were reticent to relinquish too much power to a central federal government. They instead preferred a system that greatly favored the states over the federal government.
` While many of the federal agencies and departments that Senator Cruz intends to cut will accomplish his goal of …show more content…
The idea of state sovereignty was widely held by many of our nations Founding Fathers. Richard Henry Lee, the man who introduced the resolution that declared us free of British rule in the Continental Congress, wrote a letter to Samuel Adams, during the fight for ratification of the Constitution in Massachusetts and Virginia, stating, “Both reason and experience prove, that so extensive a territory as that of the United States, including such a variety of climates, productions, interests; and so great difference of manners, habits, and customs; cannot be governed in freedom—until formed into states, sovereign, sub modo, and confederated for the common good” (Ratification by the States, Volume IX: Virginia, No. 2). Senator Cruz makes the same argument, reasoning that the vast differences between the states in “manners, habits, and customs” calls for a different education system in each state. Lee, like Senator Cruz, sees the value in leaving some decisions to state governments, who must deal with the local issues that arise in each state, and believes that they are better suited to handle these issues than a bloated federal government, which may be far away from the issues that afflict the citizens of a different state. Local and state officials are better suited to determine the best methods for teaching our students as they are interacting with the students on a more personal and daily basis. The federal government is unable to form this connection and therefore cannot be trusted to make these decisions. Therefore, as Senator Cruz, has stated educational policy should be delegated to the states, thus giving them sovereignty in this policy

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