SO, WHAT’S WITH THIS “CONSTITUTION” STUFF?

The purpose of the Constitution, according to its framers (Google each of the 50+ framers to discover their views), was to lay down the principles of a government that was subject to the people and that governed according to their will.

It laid down six functions of this government: to unite the people; to establish justice; to keep the peace (domestic tranquility); to provide for the common defense; to promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty, now and forever.

So how are we doing with these principles?

List the ways, for instance, the current administration, congress and the judiciary are taking steps to unite us as a nation.

Do those ways include opening the borders between the U.S. and Mexico? Is that a unifying action?

How about providing “stimulus” packages for parts of society that cannot figure out how to sustain themselves. Is that unifying the country?

Do you think taking more and more of the money people earn legitimately to fund such projects as the “bridge to nowhere,” Solyndra, General Motors, etc. is uniting the country?

How are the current administration, congress and the judiciary doing with the principle of establishing justice for all?

Is the interjection of the administration into a case involving a neighborhood watch person and a neighborhood intruder before all of the facts are known a part of ensuring that justice is administered?



Maybe you think that providing fire arms to know drug dealers who subsequently use them to murder Americans on U.S. soil is just.

Perhaps the John Corozine case illustrates how well the system is providing justice for all.

In what way is our government ensuring tranquility?

Is tranquility Constitutionally synonymous with peace?

North Korea, if you don’t count the concentration camps, is a tranquil society. It is also a totalitarian state that exists on threat, power and mind control. It that the kind of tranquility we want?

Do you see Occupy Wall Street gangs breaking store windows, overturning cars, tearing down corporations bill boards and defecating in public as tranquil?

What about the constant race-baiting that comes out of Washington DC? Does that ensure domestic tranquility?

Then there’s “provide for the common defense.”

Notice that this is the only phrase in the Constitution that asks the government to do the actual providing.

Also notice that its job is to defend commonly, that is, the whole of the nation, not pockets of internal unrest.

Explain to me how decreasing our military force helps provide for the common defense.

The next principle in the Constitution is the principle of promoting (not providing) the general welfare.

How dose confiscating more and more of the people’s earned income and giving it to people or corporations promote the general welfare?

Do you believe that a person who will not work, if physically and mentally able to do so, should be taken care of by the rest of the citizens of this country?

Perhaps you can opine as to how paying for an illegal alien at the expense of citizens who need those classroom seats, promotes the general welfare.
Does promoting the general welfare include becoming a “Nanny State?”

Does the current administration’s presentation of “Julia” really represent what you want this nation to be? Does it really fit what the Constitution is addressing in the general welfare clause?

“Secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity.”

The government is now enslaving our posterity to the tune of tens of trillions of dollars in both debt and budget deficits.

Does this ensure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity?

How does taking money from citizens to use to “invest” in doomed so-called “green” corporations help ourselves or our posterity?

“We the people…do ordain and establish this Constitution of the United States of America.”

When President BO (the child president) proclaimed that the Constitution was flawed because it told what the government cannot do instead of what it must do, he was totally wrong, either out of ignorance or out of willful ignore-ance.

The Preamble tells us exactly what the government is designed to do…no more, no less.

The rest of the Constitution defines the functions of the various branches of our government and places the limits on what it is allowed to do…by design.

Sadly, we have allowed the government, which is supposed to be accountable to us, to usurp powers which were never intended for it, under the liberal “progressive” guise of it being a “living, breathing” document.

It does live, breathe and change, but by the deliberately complicated procedure of the amendment process, not by executive or judicial decree.

There are four bastions of liberty:

1. Respect for the Constitution

2. Respect for Life

3. The smallest possible government

4. Individual responsibility

God help us achieve all four.