As a writer, I’ve been asked, more than a few times, “Are you liberal or conservative?” I’ve been accused by people calling themselves conservatives, of being a liberal. On the other side of the spectrum, liberals call me all sorts of names – “racist, hater, conspiracy theorist, birther, tin foil hat, alarmist” … you name it, I’ve been called it, along with more than a few expletives and pejoratives.
Back in the day of ignorance and naivety, I told people I was conservative. Today, when people ask me if I’m liberal or conservative, I tell them neither, that I believe in the Constitution and Bill of Rights as written by our Founding Fathers. I invariably get the argument that I must be a conservative. Not so. The reason is simple – there are only two kinds of people: 1) those who believe in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, established as the supreme law of our land, and 2) those who do not. There is no “right” or “left,” there is no “liberal” or “conservative”; these are nothing more than labels; monikers that mislead people into believing that the Constitution and Bill of Rights are living documents that can be interpreted in different ways.
Thomas Jefferson said, in 1823,
“On every question of construction, carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates, and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text, or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.”
In studying the writings of our Founding Fathers, it becomes very apparent that our limited form of government, as established by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, was established as it was to allow the citizens of the several states the greatest amount of freedom possible to govern themselves, to control themselves, to sustain themselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.
John Adams made this very clear when he stated, “Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate for any other.”
On the steps of Constitution Hall, in Philadelphia, when asked what form of government we would have, Benjamin Franklin responded, “A republic, if you can keep it.” Like John Adams, Benjamin Franklin knew, although not a Christian himself, that our nation would only survive so long as the people choose to live by the Ten Commandments of God.
Both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution make it very clear that the flow of power, under the United States Constitution, is from God to the people to the government, that Natural Law was, and is, the basis of our Constitution and Bill of Rights.
George Mason, Founding Father, statesman, 1772,
“The laws of nature are the laws of God, Whose authority can be superseded by no power on earth. A legislature must not obstruct our obedience to Him from Whose punishment they cannot protect us, all human constitutions which contradict His laws, we are in conscience bound to disobey.”
When people talk about the “separation of church and state”, they mistakenly believe that such means that those who represent us should leave their religious beliefs at the door as they enter our institutions of government. Nothing could be further from the truth. In reading the writings of our Founding Fathers, it becomes very apparent that they believed those who represented the people in the halls of government should be men of religious belief, Godly men who deliberated according to God’s word, as the Higher Authority; statesman, if you will.
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