Oh no, somebody call the medics!! Brett is off his meds!!
Ha! Rest assured. Neither medics nor meds are needed.
A common claim of regressives is that our Constitution is over 200 years old and these are modern times! (By the way, I refuse to use the term ‘progressive’ because there’s nothing progressive about the ‘progressive agenda’-- other than excessive government control.) So, do you want to return to the quill and inkwell? Do you want to travel by horseback? And of course, their favorite lines are, “We don't shoot muskets anymore. We have all this fancy technology and The Framers had none of our modern conveniences nor could they envision our lives today. So, why do you cling to a 200-year-old document?”
No, we do not want to revert to the technology used in the past, and they’re correct in one respect. The Framers had no concept of today’s computer technology, or the ability to research millions of books from our couches or travel from America to England in just a few hours.
Didn’t these technological advances occur while this 200-year-old document was in existence? Of course, they did. And, herein lies the absurdity of their argument.
The Constitution does not define living standards. The Constitution defines timeless principles that govern the relationship between the federal government and the individual. It’s a document that limits government authority as well as how it can act. It does not limit human ingenuity, innovation or industry.
The issue regressives have with the Constitution is that it does not permit implementation of their world view. The secular regressive agenda is not congruent with human nature. This is why so many of their public policies have to be mandated or coerced in order for citizens to comply. And the examples are many. We’ve seen this with the Obamacare mandates. Never before had the federal government required the purchase of a product or service as a condition of legal citizenship. Most recently, we’ve witnessed mask mandates, attempted vaccine mandates and the forced closure of 'non-essential' businesses.
These actions are absolute violations of the principles in the Constitution and the federal government’s enumerated powers. While proponents of these extra-Constitutional programs claim they expand liberty, they actually diminish it. This should be obvious. Liberty is the ability of a citizen to freely act in their own self-interest according to judgements they individually make within the construct of a civil society.
This brings up an interesting point. We have laws on the books. Are all of these laws unconstitutional violations of individual liberty? Of course not. A society without laws is anarchy. A civil society is maintained by a common set of values, customs and laws. These spring from a country’s founding principles set out in their governing documents. In the United States, that governing document is the Constitution.
The genius of The Framers is they didn’t attempt to define how society would function in the future. They didn’t list specifics in the governing documents they created. Rather, they discussed these things in their writings and discussions to provide insight on their thought processes. The principles they set forth in our Constitution are timeless. The Constitution is every bit as relevant today as it was in 1787. Society declines and liberty suffers when we stray from its original intent, as we have done in so many instances today.
Our Constitutional republic is still the most modern form of government in the world today. And yet, we fight every day to restore the Constitution and defend our Founding Principles. We are halfway to calling the first Article V Convention of States meeting. This was not our idea. It is not something we invented because we wanted to see America pursue other policies. Rather, this is the tool The Framers provided to rein in a federal government that operates outside its enumerated powers. Go to www.conventionofstates.com/take action to get involved. Every liberty loving American has a stake in this fight.
In liberty,
Brett
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