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.
Those who oppose our intended system of governance have gone to great lengths to infiltrate areas of society that provide them a means for spreading their beliefs. They occupy positions of authority within the educational system, as well as in the mass media. They have been so effective in this strategy that most universities, newspapers, and broadcast media stations now employ people who are intimately involved in the spreading of this worldview.
The sad fact is that this ideology is one that predates revolutionary times. In fact, the history of mankind is a history of man's rights being defined by the authoritarians who ruled over him at any given time. While those people of the past were told that their rights were gifts from government, our Founders adopted the much different concepts promoted by numerous freedom-loving philosophers of that era.
In this different worldview, men have rights that come from their Creator or that exist solely by virtue of their humanity, and those rights cannot be violated or suppressed by government. Those basic human rights cannot be infringed upon by government, because they are not dependent upon government for their existence.
That was the purpose of the Constitution, after all: to establish competing branches of government with separated powers, and then restrict those powers to certain limited areas of authority that would not conflict with individual sovereignty. Those rights were further strengthened by the passage of the first ten Amendments to that document.
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.
The fact is that the Constitution is in a weakened state, and the central government now has far more power than the Founders intended. Meanwhile, the opponents of our intended system of government continue to persevere in their efforts to replace individual liberty with collectivism. If they succeed, Americans in the future will rightly blame this present generation for allowing the enemies of freedom to win.
Those who oppose our intended system of governance have gone to great lengths to infiltrate areas of society that provide them a means for spreading their beliefs. They occupy positions of authority within the educational system, as well as in the mass media. They have been so effective in this strategy that most universities, newspapers, and broadcast media stations now employ people who are intimately involved in the spreading of this worldview.
The sad fact is that this ideology is one that predates revolutionary times. In fact, the history of mankind is a history of man's rights being defined by the authoritarians who ruled over him at any given time. While those people of the past were told that their rights were gifts from government, our Founders adopted the much different concepts promoted by numerous freedom-loving philosophers of that era.
In this different worldview, men have rights that come from their Creator or that exist solely by virtue of their humanity, and those rights cannot be violated or suppressed by government. Those basic human rights cannot be infringed upon by government, because they are not dependent upon government for their existence.
That was the purpose of the Constitution, after all: to establish competing branches of government with separated powers, and then restrict those powers to certain limited areas of authority that would not conflict with individual sovereignty. Those rights were further strengthened by the passage of the first ten Amendments to that document.
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.
The fact is that the Constitution is in a weakened state, and the central government now has far more power than the Founders intended. Meanwhile, the opponents of our intended system of government continue to persevere in their efforts to replace individual liberty with collectivism. If they succeed, Americans in the future will rightly blame this present generation for allowing the enemies of freedom to win.