Here in America, we have witnessed an attack on our Constitution, an attack on our economy and suppression of free speech in the past few years. After experiencing the loss of so many freedoms during Covid followed by what many believe was a fraudulent presidential election and Senate run-off in Georgia, we are left with the radical left controlling the White House and Congress.
As prophesied by Abraham Lincoln...
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reaches us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
As a result, in the heart of every true patriot, lover of freedom and lover of God, burns this one question: “What can I do?”
The answer comes from the words of our Founding Fathers, echoing from over 200 years ago – but still ringing true today.
These words reinforce the Founders support for an Article V Convention of States as a way to restore liberty to the people and the states:
“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded. If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature this government is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the constitution!”
“We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the constitution but to overthrow the people who pervert the constitution. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. For when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for the future security.”
“Citizens! We are not at once to despair, but to recall the government to its original and legitimate principles and restrain it within the rightful limits of self government.”
“Every American must endeavor to stop the dissemination of principles evidently destructive of the cause for which they have bled, to rescue and save their civil and religious rights from the outstretched arm of tyranny!”
“Every man who loves peace, every man who loves his country, every man who loves liberty ought to have it ever before his eyes that he may cherish in his heart a due attachment to the union of America and be able to set a due value on the means of preserving it!”
(Abraham Lincoln, Sam Adams, John Adams, George Washington, Harriet Tubman, Patrick Henry, Montesquieu, George Mason, Frederick Bastiat, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Mercy Otis Warren, Thomas Paine, James Otis, the Declaration of Independence. As compiled in the book “The Founder’s Speech to a Nation in Crisis” by Steven Rabb)
The Convention of States Project is the endeavor citizens must take to restore the federal government to its original intent. Term limits, fiscal responsibility and limitations to its overall power are modern day ways to preserve the freedoms and self-governance our Founding Fathers and ancestors worked so hard to achieve.
Like they say, freedom is never free, and we must be intentional and persistent in our fight to keep it, or it will disappear before our eyes.
