I have always been impressed and utterly amazed with the brilliance of many of our founding fathers of this most exceptional nation ever founded in human history. As I have stated in previous posts, there are many reasons why the United States of America is so exceptional when compared to every other nation on this planet. Our freedoms, as protected by our founders when forming the foundation of America and its government, is perhaps the most important of them all.
Our founders set the foundation for a nation that was not based on a monarchy or even a class system as were most European nations of that era. With a strong reliance on John Locke, our founders believed in natural law and that our rights were derived from God and not from other men, and especially not from government.
The founders in their brilliance created a masterpiece in our United States Constitution which had the purpose of limiting the powers and rights of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. In other words, its purpose was to tell the government what it specifically was allowed to do and what it was not allowed to do.
Our founders set the foundation for a nation that was not based on a monarchy or even a class system as were most European nations of that era. With a strong reliance on John Locke, our founders believed in natural law and that our rights were derived from God and not from other men, and especially not from government.
The founders in their brilliance created a masterpiece in our United States Constitution which had the purpose of limiting the powers and rights of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. In other words, its purpose was to tell the government what it specifically was allowed to do and what it was not allowed to do.
Further, the Constitution specifically enumerates the rights of We The People that the federal government must enforce and cannot usurp. Those rights and duties that are not specifically enumerated as being under the purview of the government are reserved to the States or the people, as per the tenth amendment to the Constitution. The federal government is not authorized to regulate or legislate on any issue not specifically authorized in the Constitution, or so it is use to be and should be still.
Evidently our federal government has forgotten our history and has chosen to ignore the wisdom and profound law of the land in our Constitution. They do so at their own peril and even more importantly at the peril of our nation. It was for the exact same usurpation of rights, egregious taxation, and soft tyranny that our founders risked and fought a revolution after declaring that they no longer would live under the rule of a tyrant king.
They stated this in the following excerpt from the United States Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. (emphasis is mine)
With such timeless wisdom espoused in the Declaration of Independence and the fact that there are scores of millions of Americans that still know, honor, and are willing to sacrifice to ensure that this greatest of all nations does not end up on the ash heap of history, one has to wonder if President Obama and those in congress that continue to govern against the will of the governed see the potential dangers they are fomenting on our country.
Now I am not one that has ever been radical enough to think that a new revolution could occur in my lifetime in America, but if those in power continue to thwart the Constitution and the will of the people with their hoax and chains they can believe in, then perhaps a real tea party could indeed be the result of their intransigence.
Evidently our federal government has forgotten our history and has chosen to ignore the wisdom and profound law of the land in our Constitution. They do so at their own peril and even more importantly at the peril of our nation. It was for the exact same usurpation of rights, egregious taxation, and soft tyranny that our founders risked and fought a revolution after declaring that they no longer would live under the rule of a tyrant king.
They stated this in the following excerpt from the United States Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. (emphasis is mine)
With such timeless wisdom espoused in the Declaration of Independence and the fact that there are scores of millions of Americans that still know, honor, and are willing to sacrifice to ensure that this greatest of all nations does not end up on the ash heap of history, one has to wonder if President Obama and those in congress that continue to govern against the will of the governed see the potential dangers they are fomenting on our country.
Now I am not one that has ever been radical enough to think that a new revolution could occur in my lifetime in America, but if those in power continue to thwart the Constitution and the will of the people with their hoax and chains they can believe in, then perhaps a real tea party could indeed be the result of their intransigence.
For those neo-liberal statists out there, beware! Believe me when I tell you there are a hell of a lot more Americans that know and love their country than there are of you one-world Utopian types, and we will not allow America to become just one more of the many other un-exceptional nations of the world.
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