RELIGION or POLITICS ??? Platform for a Constitutional Government.

Hi y'all,  boy this country is certainly going through convulsions these days, huh?  And the fingers pointing at most anybody whether it has facts behind the pointing or not.  What this country has come to, uh uh!  What has happened to good old values and principles???  Anyway, let's continue with getting back to a Constitutional Government.


 When I left off a couple days ago, it read about the national debt being the largest since World War II, and that it leaves us vulnerable to every mischance that may come upon the nation from abroad or at home, and how this burden stifles enterprise and closes opportunity for all but the well connected.

To continue:   As the government has grown, it has become a powerful interest in the everyday affairs of the nation.  Increasingly, bureaucracy is a factor in every operation our citizens undertake.    In the management of our businesses, in the accomplishment of our jobs, in the rearing of our children, and in the very caring for our own bodies, there now are rules too numerous to count.   Ominously, these rules now seek even to intrude into electoral processes by which ouor free people choose their representatives.

     These rules originate in laws passed by Congress that are much too long for anyone to read.    After these laws are passed, they are enhanced, expanded, interpreted, and complicated by regulatory agencies.   WE forget therefore the words of the Father of the Constitution, James Madison.

IT WILL BE OF LITTLE AVAIL TO THE PEOPLE THAT THE LAWS ARE MADE BY MEN OF THEIR OWN CHOICE IF THE LAWS BE SO VOLUMINOUS THAT THEY CANNOT BE READ, OR SO INCOHERENT THAT THEY CANNOT BE UNDERSTOOD;   IF THEY BE REPEALED OR REVISED BEFORE THEY ARE PROMULGATED, OR UNDERGO SUCH INCESSANT CHANGES THAT NO MAN, WHO KNOWS WHAT THE LAW IS TODAY, CAN GUESS WHAT IT WILL BE TOMORROW.    lAW IS DEFINED TO BE A RULE OF ACTION;    BUT HOW CAN THAT BE A RULE, WHICH IS LITTLE KNOWN, AND LESS FIXED?


     All these developments, so long entrenched in our politics, are presented by their proponents as a natural extension of the original principles and the original institutions of the nation.    Doubtless those who argue this also believe it, but it cannot possibly be true.

     Gone now is the caution about human nature that recognizes that human beings must live under law in order to protect their rights,  and that those who make and enforce the law are no more likely to perfect -- or less likely to violate the rights of their fellow citizens -- than others.    The current tendency toward unlimited government undermines the foundation of constitutional rule in our country.   That foundation is stated by Madison in a few words:  "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.   If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

     Men must be governed because they are imperfect -- less than God, less than angels.    But then so too are those who make and enforce the law imperfect.  They also have interests.    Therefore government must have strong powers, but these powers must be limited and checked.


OK, going to stop here for today, and suggest you read these last two paragraphs over and over until you realize the dangers this country is in, and the need for stalwart men and women who believe strongly in a Constitutional Government as our founders had in mind.    Thanks for visiting again and please come back as I will continue on friday. I invite everyone to speak up and say what you think for or against.         Cheers      CJ