Subject: Our Constitution is Being Destroyed
Hello Patriots! Right now, in Washington DC, our elected officials are destroying the US Constitution on a daily basis and yet nothing is being done to stop them. Almost all recent legislation enacted by Congress is unconstitutional, flat and simple.
The US Constitution is a marvel, as it is a simple document that is not difficult to read or understand, yet contains the precise language that allowed the governing of our country for more than 200 years and enabled us to become the most prosperous free country in the world.
Why is it now that our elected officials have opted, without authority, to throw away the Constitution and make up their own rules for governing our country? Was there a recent Constitutional Convention that none of us are aware of? The sad and scary answer is that liberal elements in Congress, aligned with a liberal President, are purposefully destroying the Constitution and in doing so is endangering our freedom and liberty.
Where is the Constitutional authority for bank bailouts, auto company bailouts, mandated health insurance, cap & trade energy schemes? I have read the Constitution many, many times, yet have found no authority for any of these things.
When pushed up against the wall and asked this hard question, liberals in Congress promoting these agendas use the "general welfare clause" referred to in the preamble of the Constitution.
Anyone falling for this explanation is a victim of the "dumbing down" of America over the last few decades. The words in the preamble of the Constitution need to be re-visited occasionally, so here they are:
"We the People of these United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America".
Read the line "promote the general welfare", and then look at the definition of the word "promote". "Promote" is defined as "to contribute to the progress, development, or growth of; to further, or encourage". It does not mean to mandate or provide for. Our founding fathers knew the exact language they were using; look at the phrase in the preamble "provide for the common defence". They used the specific word "provide" because that was their intent- to provide for the common defence. "Provide means "to supply or furnish; set as a condition, or stipulate". That is why we have a federal military force, because the Constitution provides for it.
If our founding fathers had intended to "provide" for the general welfare, they would have used the precise language to make that provision. But they didn't- and no Constitutional amendment has either. The conclusion I come to is that Congress is acting outside of the Constitutional authority granted them when they enact such legislation. There is no other explanation. And by doing so they are endangering the security of another thing in the preamble, "the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity".
I don't want to ramble on, but in this current debate over government health care the simple answer seems to be that there is no Constitutional authority for it. We need to return our nation back to the Constitutional roots it was founded on, anything outside of that is detrimental to our country and it's future.
"The people alone have an incontestable, unalienable, and indefeasible right to institute government and to reform, alter, or totally change the same when their protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness require it."
-Samuel Adams
"It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams
God bless America, and may God save our great country.
Blane Dillon
www.freedomlibertyteaparty.com
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