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 problem that many fail to recognize is that this philosophy is one that has has always existed in one form or another. Since man first arrived on the scene, the limits of individual liberty have almost always been subject to the whims of kings and other autocrats. That historical pattern was shattered when America's Founders put into action ideas that a number of liberty-minded philosophers had been expressing for many decades.
That concept argued that man's rights were his by nature of humanity, and were thus a gift from his Creator. As such, those liberties predate government and are thus something over which government must not have control. This concept values individual sovereignty by limiting those things that government can rightly affect.
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.
Modern opponents of those restrictions on governmental authority, like the Progressives and various socialist groups, have a very different view of human liberty. This view is presented as a new concept, but is actually as old as humanity itself. From Babylon and The Roman Empire to modern tyrannies such as North Korea and the Soviet Union, there have always been authoritarians telling us that the collective interest trumps individual sovereignty.
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 problem that many fail to recognize is that this philosophy is one that has has always existed in one form or another. Since man first arrived on the scene, the limits of individual liberty have almost always been subject to the whims of kings and other autocrats. That historical pattern was shattered when America's Founders put into action ideas that a number of liberty-minded philosophers had been expressing for many decades.
That concept argued that man's rights were his by nature of humanity, and were thus a gift from his Creator. As such, those liberties predate government and are thus something over which government must not have control. This concept values individual sovereignty by limiting those things that government can rightly affect.
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.
Modern opponents of those restrictions on governmental authority, like the Progressives and various socialist groups, have a very different view of human liberty. This view is presented as a new concept, but is actually as old as humanity itself. From Babylon and The Roman Empire to modern tyrannies such as North Korea and the Soviet Union, there have always been authoritarians telling us that the collective interest trumps individual sovereignty.
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.
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