OUR CONSTITUTION
There it stands -- in all its majesty -- the center of our nation. Simply by being, it defends and warns. It defends us from fallacies that the experience of 3,000 years condemns; from dictatorship which is abhorent to every AMERICAN concept; from the totalitrarian state that regiments men, their minds and bodies.
From these and like evils now so widespread on earth, our Constitution daily depends us. It stands between us and the great blasphemy that man is a creature of the state.
It is not a government edict to which the people must obey, but a people's law which government must obey!
They had studied the ancient civilizations and the methods of government employed there-in. They had studied the medieval systems and the various governments of their day.
They were well acquainted with the great classical writings on the subject, therefore came to their tasks very throughly equipped. They knew the results of the experiments in government through the ages!
DANIEL WEBSTER said:
It has been said,
The pecular glory of the Constitution of the United States is that it is not a charter of rights granted by government to a people, but a limit of powers to which a vigilant people restricts its government.
these seven potent words were and remain, all subsequent world upheavals not withstanding, the most revoluionary words on record !
The Fathers of the Constitution were not just a group of casual people who started a casual thing in a casual way !
It is often asserted nowadays that this generation knows more than did the Constitution makers. So we do - but not about government. We could have known more, perhaps, had we been interested, but within this framework of freedom erected by the fathers, we have been busy buiLding this country.
Their special wisdom in the field of government left us free to do that. THEY made the blue print, laid the foundation, reared the scaffolding and started the buildings; and we have by no means filled in that framework of destiny and freedom.
Above all, they knew, although perhaps in every case they did not fully realize, that man, is here on earth to become self-reliant, self-expressive, and self-determined, in order to glorify his Creator.
They foresaw the always possible use of dazzling personal leadership; they foresaw the displacement of law by temporary emotion; the tendency to unwise action under stress; and to prevent these evils, they erected certain barriers.
These three powers of government, with officers' oath-bound to the CONSTITUTION are estabished in complete independence one of another, on the supposition that NEVER would all three combine against the people or the law that gave them being !
The CONSTITUTION gives us the foundation for a FREE, PROSPEROUS and INDEPENDENT life for every citizen, but each generation, in time, must work for and claim it, otherwise, through carelessness, or indifference, the rights and liberties we have enjoyed may vanish. Let us thoroughly acquaint ourselves with this magnificent document, which is ours
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OUR FATHERS knew better than we that the specific temptation of government in all times --any government-- even an AMERICAN government-- is to seize more power than is allotted to it, or misuse the power it has.
The Presidency, the Congress, and the Courts were made subordinate to the constitution.
to respect,
ours to protect,
and ours to use.
NOW!
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