I am going to write a series of blogs about the Constitution as I understand it. I have a couple of copies in booklet form and have read the entire Constitution several times. I do not claim to be some kind of expert on the Constitution. I’m not even sure if the way I understand the document is the way the founding fathers meant it to mean. This series of articles is merely my take on what the Constitution says and what it means to this country that I love.
On May 25, 1787, 39 delegates from 12 states signed the document that created the government that led to this land becoming the greatest nation in the world. I did not say that the United States is perfect, but if you really compare this country to any other place in the world, this country is clearly the best. The foundation of this great country is the Constitution. It is the rock upon which this country was built. The Constitution is the guardian of our freedom. This wonderful document not only described what the government of this country is expected to do, but also states in no uncertain terms the things that the government is not allowed to do. The Constitution has been under attack for several years now. I think we have gotten to the point where most Americans are beginning to think that it is time we moved back to what the Constitution says, not what power-hungry politicians claim it says.
I have heard The Anointed One, Our Beloved Leader, Barrak Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) say that The Bill of Rights is a list of “negative rights.” The Bill of Rights lays out what the government can not do to us. A lot of those on the left find this unacceptable. The Anointed One, Our Beloved Leader, Barrak Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) has said that the Bill of Rights should also include the things that the government is required to do for each of the citizens in this great country. There are two things wrong with that attitude. One of them I will address right now, the other I will do my best to cover over the next week.
The very concept of The Constitution of the United States of America listing what the government must do flies in the face of what the Founding Fathers intended to do. This country was founded on the principle that “the government that governs least governs best.” The purpose of The Bill of Rights is to limit the size and scope of government. What the framers of our Constitution were working to achieve was an energetic, but limited government. The colonists had seen what a big, all-powerful government can do. They had suffered long enough under the tyranny of absolute government. Think about it for a minute, how bad do things have to be before you make the decision to take up arms against your government. Once that decision is made, it can not be taken back. As the great Benjamin Franklin said after the Declaration of Independence was signed, “We must hang together or we shall all hang separately.” Those who took up arms and threw off the tyranny of the strongest monarch in the world at that time must have had a great many reasons to limit the size and power of the central government when it came time to set down on paper the type of government that we will be happiest under.
So yes, the Bill of Rights does not include the things that the government is responsible for in our everyday lives, because that is exactly what our Founding Fathers intended. The government has no responsibility to take care of the citizens in a Republican form of government. And I don’t care what the lefty loons say our country was founded as a Republic, not a “representative democracy.” That term did not exist back then and was coined by the Democrat Party because they hate anything that has that word in it. The definition of several types of governance will be covered in later blogs.
I hope that explains one of the reasons that The Anointed One, Our Beloved Leader, Barrak Hussein Obama (peace be upon him) was wrong about the responsibilities of government. My next blog will attempt to prove that He is wrong about the Constitution not laying out what the government must do. There is a section of the Constitution called the Enumerated Powers. More on them soon.
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