Since its founding, The United States has relied on the Constitution to safeguard expansive liberties for the citizens of the nation. The Founders who produced that governing document had many different views on life, but they all shared a common belief in individual sovereignty that guided them to create a charter that placed strict checks on the power of government. In modern times, a movement toward anti constitutionalism now poses a serious threat to that established order.
These enemies of the Constitution have a powerful voice, largely due to their brilliant strategy of infiltrating powerful institutions. These institutions include the various forms of media, as well as colleges and the public schools. From those lofty perches, the opponents of limited government routinely preach against individual sovereignty. In fact, one can scarcely locate a school or television station where this ideology has not at least started to take root.
At its core, this movement's philosophy represents a return to the past as it existed prior to our own Revolution. For most of mankind's history, the rights of the people were deemed little more than gifts from whatever tyrannical regime happened to rule over them at the time. The American Founders, taking their cue from the philosophies of various contemporary free thinkers, held to a different belief.
This new philosophy held that man's rights came not from government, but were gifts from his Creator. They were inherent rights held by every human being alive. As such, their enjoyment did not depend upon any ruler's arbitrary decrees, and could not be legislated out of existence to satisfy government's desire for control.
The entirety of the Constitution relies upon that new ideology. It sets out in careful detail the various branches of government, while providing limits on their respective areas of authority. To further strengthen the rights of the individual and States, the Founders also passed ten highly restrictive Amendments that elaborated on those liberties.
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 favor collectivism know that they Constitution is the strongest obstacle they face. As a result, generations of these opponents of Constitutional governance have worked to weaken that document's restrictions on government, while attacking individualism at every turn. They now believe themselves to be within striking distance of their final goal.
Americans today live in an age where their constitutional origins seem more removed than ever before. Centralized control is replacing personal freedom subtly, but steadily. If this trend continues, then the time is coming when the American citizens of our future will look with disgust upon this present generation and wonder with astonishment how we could ever be so easily tricked into surrendering the freedom that so many fought and died to secure.
These enemies of the Constitution have a powerful voice, largely due to their brilliant strategy of infiltrating powerful institutions. These institutions include the various forms of media, as well as colleges and the public schools. From those lofty perches, the opponents of limited government routinely preach against individual sovereignty. In fact, one can scarcely locate a school or television station where this ideology has not at least started to take root.
At its core, this movement's philosophy represents a return to the past as it existed prior to our own Revolution. For most of mankind's history, the rights of the people were deemed little more than gifts from whatever tyrannical regime happened to rule over them at the time. The American Founders, taking their cue from the philosophies of various contemporary free thinkers, held to a different belief.
This new philosophy held that man's rights came not from government, but were gifts from his Creator. They were inherent rights held by every human being alive. As such, their enjoyment did not depend upon any ruler's arbitrary decrees, and could not be legislated out of existence to satisfy government's desire for control.
The entirety of the Constitution relies upon that new ideology. It sets out in careful detail the various branches of government, while providing limits on their respective areas of authority. To further strengthen the rights of the individual and States, the Founders also passed ten highly restrictive Amendments that elaborated on those liberties.
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 favor collectivism know that they Constitution is the strongest obstacle they face. As a result, generations of these opponents of Constitutional governance have worked to weaken that document's restrictions on government, while attacking individualism at every turn. They now believe themselves to be within striking distance of their final goal.
Americans today live in an age where their constitutional origins seem more removed than ever before. Centralized control is replacing personal freedom subtly, but steadily. If this trend continues, then the time is coming when the American citizens of our future will look with disgust upon this present generation and wonder with astonishment how we could ever be so easily tricked into surrendering the freedom that so many fought and died to secure.
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