(Greetings good and intelligent people -- you have to be to enjoy my blog, but in any case today I am starting on the subject of the Constitution which is brought to you from the publication of Hillsdale College's monthly newsletter called IMPRIMIS, by Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College.)
We all regret, I am sure, the horrible shooting in Arizona this past weekend. You all may well know that guns are easy to get in Arizona by almost anyone, and as I understand they wanted to issue guns to students and teachers in the higher levels of educational institutions. What with all the rest it's like Tombstone, and in this day and age a great formula for the nuts and radicals afloat in our population. Given the Causes, there will always be the Effects. Never failing Law. But to go on.
On June 17, 1858, Abrahma Lincoln said in his House Divided apeech, "If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could better judge what to do and how to do it."
His analysis was founded upon a profound contemplation of the Declaration of Independence and its embodiment it the Constitution of the United States. It issure in a set of proposals disigned first to limit and tehn to extinguish slavery by strictly constitutional means.
We require a similar kind of analysis today. Our most difficult policy issues are embedded in a vast administrative state that is built without regard for the principles of the Declaration in their true meaning, or for the proper constitutional operation of government.
The Declaration of Independence articulates the place of man in nature below God and above the beast. It says that we may be governed only by our consent. Woodrow Wilson and the founders of modern liberalism called these doctrines "obsolete". They argued that we live now in the age of progress , and that government must be an engine of that progress. This idea changes how we view not only the purpose of government, but also the rights of its citizens.
Franklin Roosevelt added economic security to the natural rights, as the Declaration of Independence states, of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". Government grew as a result, expecially under Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon. And it continues to grow -- all in the name of progress. Indeed, the current administration is the most aggressive proponent of the doctines of Progressivism since they were first introduced.
Under the influence if these new doctrines, the government has grown to be, in simple terms, the largest single force by far in the land. It now consumes nearly half of all we produce, and it is soon to accumulate public debt as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product equal to the largest in our history, matching our debt level at the end of the Second World War. This debt leaves us vulnerable to every mischance that may come upon the nation from abroad or at home. The burden of it stifles enterprise and closes opportunity for all but the well connected.
So my friends, how well connected are you? NOT??? Then you had better listen up and absorb what I am sending in this and some blogs to come. We must make a pledge to ourselves to wake up and get active in defending this great country of ours, from the dangers inside which is working hard to "fundamentally change America". Thanks for stopping by and do come back. I'll continue you on Wednesday. Cheers CJ
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