The platypus is, in my humble opinion, the most amazing animal on the face of this planet. Think about it.
- They are mammals of the monotreme variety--one of two mammal families to lay eggs rather than giving birth to live young. The other is the echidna.
- Males are venomous, carrying stingers (called spurs) on their heels to ward off predators and other threats to their families.
- They own a duckbill with sensory receptors that detect even the most subtle changes in water movement, touch, and pressure.
- The webbing on their feet can be retracted to expose claws they use for digging burrows and protecting their young.
- They have beaver-like tails that act as a rudder for swimming and store fat while they are nesting or during times of famine.
- They have webbed feet like that of many waterfowl. This makes them graceful swimmers but a little clumsy on land.
- According to the scientists who first discovered them, they were impossible creatures who shouldn’t exist except in the realm of fantasy.
Now I could take each of those points and stretch them to enhance the connection to Article V and our Constitution, but I’m just going to focus on that last point.
According to every other culture, nation, and government regime in the world, the unique and virtue-based system of self-governance in America should be impossible.
It might be fit for utopian ideals and fantasy worlds, but absolutely impossible to achieve in our known universe.
Except, it isn’t impossible. It happened.
In spite of the federal overreach and growing power of a gluttonous government in the last several decades, We the People have continued to rule under the auspices and principles of one Constitution.
In over 230 years we have lived under one timeless, principled document to govern our nation of diverse and distinct individuals, bound together by the common cause of liberty and virtue.
It's one impossible, legendary document which empowers a nation of millions to function as a civilized and virtuous people.
We’re told that it is an archaic, tired document for white supremacist, racist, homophobic, bigoted, sexist, classist, religious oppressors. This is screamed by a generation that has no appreciation for the wealth and richness of a document so far ahead of its time.
The Founders themselves weren’t even certain it would be strong enough to survive.
And yet it has. Like that impossible animal, who manages to look like God used all the leftovers of his creation to slapdash a creature together just for the purpose of confounding the scientists and nature-lovers of the present time.
Our Constitution--supported and sustained by the Declaration of Independence and the men and women who gave their lives for both--might look like a slapdash document meant to get a fledgling and struggling nation off the ground before other, better documents could be created.
For those who do not understand the precise nature of every word, this is a good excuse to let the government interpret and rewrite it to fit the changes and feelings of each new era that comes along.
Those people ought to read the Constitution and let it sink in. It is as near a perfect document on governance that can ever be created in a fallible human government. There is none like it anywhere else in the world.
Sadly, many of our leaders lack understanding and continue to seek other nations for examples to follow. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg has warned other countries not to follow our example when creating their own constitutions.
Others recently appointed to the House or Senate decry our Constitution as past its prime and ready to be replaced by something newer, better, more "woke."
What they’ve missed is that the principles that govern our nation do not change. They are immutable, irrefutable, and ageless, no matter what culture or shifting political landscapes say.
There is an absolute moral compass for us to follow in the being of our divine Creator and in the example of the laws laid down in His natural world.
Only the Constitution of the United States of America and our Declaration of Independence have come close to perfect in laying out the nature of these laws and how best to live them in a free and just society.
Nearly every other nation in the world has gone through countless revisions of their government, and they still cannot get it right.
We should not be looking to other nations for our models of governance. They should (and sometimes do) look to us.
As strange as it sounds, the Constitution is like a platypus. Impossible, incredible, and immutably following the laws of nature and Nature’s God as best as it possibly can in this broken, fallen world.
And like the platypus, our Constitution is worth protecting, preserving, and defending, so that future generations can enjoy its benefits and beautifully unique attributes.
