This past week, on September 17th, our nation recognized Constitution Day. It is disappointing how little mention there was regarding this day. My sons said that they don’t recall the date being mentioned at school over the years. Not by civics, social studies or history teachers. I recall as a boy back in the 1970s watching “School House Rock” in 
between cartoons on Saturday mornings. That is where I first learned about the Constitution, how our government works, and the history of the country’s founding. ABC no longer broadcasts the program Saturday mornings. How things have changed.
Many people believe that the Constitution was adopted on July 4, 1776. The truth is that it was adopted September 17, 1787 by 39 delegates from 12 colonies. We have become a nation fixated on wanting “my rights” whether constitutionally based or not. The 39 delegates understood that the Constitutional rights come with a responsibility first. Our liberties are contained in the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence. But these are earned as the leaders of the Revolution committed…”We pledge our lives, fortunes and sacred honor.” “We the People” are called to this responsibility.
between cartoons on Saturday mornings. That is where I first learned about the Constitution, how our government works, and the history of the country’s founding. ABC no longer broadcasts the program Saturday mornings. How things have changed.Many people believe that the Constitution was adopted on July 4, 1776. The truth is that it was adopted September 17, 1787 by 39 delegates from 12 colonies. We have become a nation fixated on wanting “my rights” whether constitutionally based or not. The 39 delegates understood that the Constitutional rights come with a responsibility first. Our liberties are contained in the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence. But these are earned as the leaders of the Revolution committed…”We pledge our lives, fortunes and sacred honor.” “We the People” are called to this responsibility.
The authors, and those in favor of adopting the Constitution, believed that Divine Providence has preserved our liberties and protected our very way of life. They would suggest that most of our problems and failures that trouble our nation today are due to the actions of our civil leadership ignoring or abusing our Constitutional law. Today, there is a growing movement to ensure faithfulness to the Constitution with the hope that this will begin to repair the damage done by this neglect. Could it be that we are re-learning the lessons of history?
It is our responsibility to hold all our elected representatives accountable to his or her oath to the Constitution. The U.S. Constitution is a contract between the people and the civil magistrate. Would it not be responsible that both sides of a contract uphold their end of the commitment? Only by each of us living up to this responsibility will there be the possibility of no longer being subject to a ruling class, party politics, special interests and similar such abuses.
Let us not forget Constitution Day again. Read and learn the Constitution. Not through a modern writer who, may have an interesting “view point”. But rather, the founding documents as written by those who drafted the Constitution. And more importantly, the Constitution itself. And let us be responsible to ourselves, and hold our elected officials to their pledge to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States."Publius
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Our current political irrationalism: UTOPIA BUILDING is clearly characterized by this contradiction.
With this logic of a compulsion our best intentions lead to destructive ends
(Note3: The use of force, gangsterism, thief, statism, Fascism, Mysticism,
indoctrination, standardization of behaviors, and the like).
The process to which has released an emerging government intimidation and control: today our politicians are discussing higher taxes, nationalized health care, controls over oil, tobacco, financial, auto, the media, the Internet, and drug companies, the elimination of home schooling, massive new powers for the Federal Reserve to provide central planning as needed to eliminate the ups and downs of the business cycle, controls over anything that might negatively impact the weather including the type of light bulbs we use and the cars we drive and subservience to a world government with the United Nations at its center.
Only the Good
PS: After this past few months and my review of all the posts we have contributed I might add a note of my own "puzzlement"that the cause, extent, and
threat of this relentless expansion of Government Secured Rights and the diminished Individual Rights is largely unknown and may be unknowable
... this is a difficult position for me to post
when I really hope that there is a solution without a full blown revolution and dismal of the leadership of our institutions who are driven by political correctness and power and control.
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