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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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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