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.
The sad fact is that this ideology is one that predates revolutionary times. In fact, the history of mankind is a history of man's rights being defined by the authoritarians who ruled over him at any given time. While those people of the past were told that their rights were gifts from government, our Founders adopted the much different concepts promoted by numerous freedom-loving philosophers of that era.
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 Constitution was devised with that basic premise in mind. That is why it is a document that carefully outlines each power that the separate branches of the central government could wield. Added to that are various Amendments, including the Bill of Rights which were passed to enshrine many of those basic human rights discussed previously.
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.
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.
The sad fact is that this ideology is one that predates revolutionary times. In fact, the history of mankind is a history of man's rights being defined by the authoritarians who ruled over him at any given time. While those people of the past were told that their rights were gifts from government, our Founders adopted the much different concepts promoted by numerous freedom-loving philosophers of that era.
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 Constitution was devised with that basic premise in mind. That is why it is a document that carefully outlines each power that the separate branches of the central government could wield. Added to that are various Amendments, including the Bill of Rights which were passed to enshrine many of those basic human rights discussed previously.
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.
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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