For more than two centuries now, the United States of America has been a nation with a founding document that enshrines liberty of a sort never before seen in history. The men who signed the Constitution had their differences, but the final governing charter they produced was a unique guarantor of individual liberty. Today, however, there is a rising anti constitutionalism in the country threatening to unravel that carefully balanced system.
These enemies of the Constitution have a powerful voice, largely due to their brilliant strategy of infiltrating powerful institutions. These institutions include the various forms of media, as well as colleges and the public schools. From those lofty perches, the opponents of limited government routinely preach against individual sovereignty. In fact, one can scarcely locate a school or television station where this ideology has not at least started to take root.
At its core, this movement's philosophy represents a return to the past as it existed prior to our own Revolution. For most of mankind's history, the rights of the people were deemed little more than gifts from whatever tyrannical regime happened to rule over them at the time. The American Founders, taking their cue from the philosophies of various contemporary free thinkers, held to a different belief.
This new philosophy held that man's rights came not from government, but were gifts from his Creator. They were inherent rights held by every human being alive. As such, their enjoyment did not depend upon any ruler's arbitrary decrees, and could not be legislated out of existence to satisfy government's desire for control.
The Constitution was devised with that basic premise in mind. That is why it is a document that carefully outlines each power that the separate branches of the central government could wield. Added to that are various Amendments, including the Bill of Rights which were passed to enshrine many of those basic human rights discussed previously.
In the minds of those socialists and progressives who now battle to alter our Constitution, those restrictions on government simply cannot stand. They claim to have new ideas about governance, but merely advocate age-old ideologies. We've seen it before. The promotion of the collective over the individual has been a staple of kingdoms like Babylon and the Roman Empire, as well as tyrannies like the Soviet Union and North Korea.
Those who oppose strict constitutional governance today understand that the work of the Founders stands firmly in the path of their desire to control our common destiny. They have spent generations whittling away at the edges of the Constitution, expanding government's reach, and reducing individual freedom. Today, they know that they are closer to their ultimate goal than at any time in history.
Americans today live in an age where their constitutional origins seem more removed than ever before. Centralized control is replacing personal freedom subtly, but steadily. If this trend continues, then the time is coming when the American citizens of our future will look with disgust upon this present generation and wonder with astonishment how we could ever be so easily tricked into surrendering the freedom that so many fought and died to secure.
These enemies of the Constitution have a powerful voice, largely due to their brilliant strategy of infiltrating powerful institutions. These institutions include the various forms of media, as well as colleges and the public schools. From those lofty perches, the opponents of limited government routinely preach against individual sovereignty. In fact, one can scarcely locate a school or television station where this ideology has not at least started to take root.
At its core, this movement's philosophy represents a return to the past as it existed prior to our own Revolution. For most of mankind's history, the rights of the people were deemed little more than gifts from whatever tyrannical regime happened to rule over them at the time. The American Founders, taking their cue from the philosophies of various contemporary free thinkers, held to a different belief.
This new philosophy held that man's rights came not from government, but were gifts from his Creator. They were inherent rights held by every human being alive. As such, their enjoyment did not depend upon any ruler's arbitrary decrees, and could not be legislated out of existence to satisfy government's desire for control.
The Constitution was devised with that basic premise in mind. That is why it is a document that carefully outlines each power that the separate branches of the central government could wield. Added to that are various Amendments, including the Bill of Rights which were passed to enshrine many of those basic human rights discussed previously.
In the minds of those socialists and progressives who now battle to alter our Constitution, those restrictions on government simply cannot stand. They claim to have new ideas about governance, but merely advocate age-old ideologies. We've seen it before. The promotion of the collective over the individual has been a staple of kingdoms like Babylon and the Roman Empire, as well as tyrannies like the Soviet Union and North Korea.
Those who oppose strict constitutional governance today understand that the work of the Founders stands firmly in the path of their desire to control our common destiny. They have spent generations whittling away at the edges of the Constitution, expanding government's reach, and reducing individual freedom. Today, they know that they are closer to their ultimate goal than at any time in history.
Americans today live in an age where their constitutional origins seem more removed than ever before. Centralized control is replacing personal freedom subtly, but steadily. If this trend continues, then the time is coming when the American citizens of our future will look with disgust upon this present generation and wonder with astonishment how we could ever be so easily tricked into surrendering the freedom that so many fought and died to secure.
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