When the founders established the American government based on three branches, providing checks and balances to insure no one branch would become too powerful, the model they used was based on the Biblical model found in Isaiah 33:22, “The Lord is our Judge, the Lord is our Lawgiver, the Lord is our King.”
Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755), one of the most quoted individuals of the founding era, affirmed that the basis of a lasting government must be based on the Bible:
“The Christian religion, which ordains that men should love each other, would without doubt have every nation blest with the best civil, the best political laws; because these, next to this religion, are the greatest good that men can give and receive.”
Today we face a division among those who believe government should be based on Biblical principles and that laws and the legislature should be the arbiter of our freedoms, not the courts.
Covid-19 has brought this controversy to the forefront with the federal government using OSHA and other agencies such as the CDC and FDA as its tools, mandating everything from vaccines to mask mandates and rapid testing. They are even going so far as to demand that everyone have a “passport” to prove their vaccine status, denying those without it their freedom to work, attend functions, eat in restaurants, and other freedoms we have always enjoyed without interference by the federal government. We are faced with a battle between states’ rights and the federal government using its power to override what the states want.
Convention of States believes these issues should be decided by the state legislatures, not the courts. Article 1, Section 1 of the Constitution states that “all legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.” This clearly states that the legislature, not the courts, are the lawmakers.
When the courts step outside their Constitutionally given roles as arbiters of law to make law, they are “legislating from the bench,” as it has been called in recent years, and this is beyond the scope of their role. As Montesquieu explained:
“…there is no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control; and the judge would then be the legislator.”
The judicial branch’s function is to interpret laws, not make them. When we allow the federal government to impose laws on us through judicial activism, we cede our freedom to them. James Madison said:
“The preservation of a free government requires not merely that the metes and bounds which separate each department of power be universally maintained but more especially that neither of them be suffered to overlap the great barrier which defends the rights of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are tyrants.”
The Hippocratic Oath originally involved the triad of the physician, the patient and God. The revised version involves only the physician and the patient, removing God altogether. What is not included in either version is the government.
When doctors and nurses allow the government to dictate treatment and remove the patient from the equation, they are not only breaking the oath they swore to uphold, but they are contributing to the tyranny of government against the freedom of the people to decide their own treatment. When the physician refuses forms of treatment or insists on others based on government mandates, they are no longer acting in the interest of their patients but are following the unlawful decisions of a tyrannical government.
Not only do we need a return to the original Biblical theory of separation of powers, but we need the return of medical freedom for Americans to make decisions about their medical treatment in consultation with their physicians and God, excluding government from these decisions altogether. No branch of government should interfere with the medical freedom of its people.
We are at a crossroads in our nation, watching as our freedoms are threatened on all fronts. From medical freedom to parental rights to gun rights to freedom of speech, we see the erosion of our ability to influence decisions made for us by those in power. Our words seem to hit a wall of resistance and fall, revealing that for Americans who have always had a government of the people, by the people and for the people, the powerful are ignoring the people to enact their own agenda.
Convention of States continues to fight for the only solution: an Article V convention which will allow the people to take back control and finally end the tyranny of the few.
