Found at CP.org
by Mary Starrett
Constitution Party Communications Director
For 7 years, the American colonists saw red everywhere they looked. British troops had taken over their towns. Colonists had put up with increasing taxation, being spied on and having their normal, day-to-day lives scrutinized. One cold night in Boston in 1775, an altercation turned deadly and before it was over British troops had shot and killed five colonists. That was a turning point. By then the gloves were off and those who lived in the new world were ready to fight for freedom. Some thought it would be best to just let King George and his army increase taxes and restrictions unchecked. Others knew fighting back was the only way they would stand a chance of securing freedom for themselves and their children. As British subjects, the colonists were fighting for their freedom against their own government!
The antagonism that had been growing ever since the British sent armies to occupy towns and enforce more tax burdens led to the American Revolution.
In 2009, we face a similar situation. We can choose to stand up to increasing government tyranny or we can consider ourselves subjects who had best just take the path of least resistance.
In a matter of days, we will watch as a man who is doubtless not even eligible to be president takes office. He will swear to uphold the same Constitution he has so often spat upon through his contempt for its intent and disregard for its restraints.
Those who have been paying attention know that Barack Obama’s stated plans include unprecedented battering of the 2nd Amendment. That is in addition to what critics have called a “tax rampage” that will add a crushing blow to Americans already reeling from the effects of government’s meddling in the economy. Under Obama, the redistribution of wealth that both Republicans and Democrats have implemented for decades will kick into overdrive. That will prove lethal to our way of life. Get ready to see some Americans paying tax rates of over 50%. We will become like the Canadians who now have access to the best health care – right across the border in the U.S.
Doubt the result of “universal health care”? Then, talk to cancer patients in B.C. or Saskatchewan or Alberta who have been sent home to die because they do not qualify for treatment under their “free-for-all” system.
Under an Obama presidency and with Congress complicit in all his Constitutional crimes and misdemeanors, we will see an increased minimum wage choke the life out of what’s left of small and large businesses alike.
Abortion will become a sacrament under this gruesomely pro-death man.
The troop surge (that was such a rousing success in Iraq) will now be applied to another insane and immoral war- this time in Afghanistan.
These predictions should not be taken to presage our demise. Just like the colonists in Boston back in 1775, we can choose to stand our ground, sacrifice our comfort and fight back.
We fight back every time we write a letter to an elected official a letter to the editor or send a donation to an organization that fights for the issues close to our hearts.
We fight back each time we dare run for office against the incumbents.
In addition, we fight back with each prayer we utter invoking Divine Providence.
In 1775 Boston Patriot Joseph Warren said:
“Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you, depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves.”
Posted to IPR by Paulie
I always email anyone back.
What does it take to get one to convince Trent Hill to email one back?
Exactly Leymann. Thanks.
“I’d much rather have a govenment formulated on a worldview that says ” Love your neighbor, do good to those who treat you badly”
I guess the founding fathers were just showing their love when they invaded Canada, persecuted loyalists, exterminated Indians and enslaved Africans.
Jere has a number of good quotes. But he does not once quote the Constitution.
Separation of church and state, combined with a realization of religion’s positive impact on the foundation of law, is the best course.
But the founding fathers were a bunch of war criminal slave-owning Indian-killing terrorists and while they had some beautiful writings, we should not appeal to their authority when conducting our lives and government.
Best Founding Fathers quote: “A little rebellion now and then is as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.” Thomas Jefferson
“Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants.” ~ William Penn
A Republic must either preserve its virtue or lose its liberty. ~ John Witherspoon
I also don’t think it is the best course of debate to cite the Trinity case as a major talking point. There are a few other Supreme Court cases out there that are a bit more binding when it comes to interpreting the Constitution exactly opposite as to how you profess.
Again, I respect what your group is trying to do, but the name is very misleading.
Mary,
Thank you for the honest response. While I respect your views, I must admit being a bit more confused.
The reason is that I can’t find the ancilary evidence you describe actually written into the Constitution. I get there are writings from the signatories, but they didn’t include those writings into the law. In that manner, I must disagree with your logic. I’m just not sure the “Constitution” Party is an appropriate name.
GOD BLESS AMERICA
“Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the universe…Religion [is] the basis and foundation of government.” —
James Madison, June 20, 1785
“Religion and Virtue are the only foundations, not only of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all governments and in all the combinations of human society.” –
-John Adams, August 28, 1811
“The birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour [and] forms a leading event in the progress of the
gospel dispensation….The Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer’s mission upon earth [and] laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.” —John Quincy Adams, 1837
“No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and
priviledges of a free people.” —Noah Webster, 1828
“Whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providenc of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits,
and humbly implore His protections and favor…[I recommend] that we then may all unite unto Him our sincere and humble thanks…for the
peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness,
and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed…
And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech
Him to pardon our national and other transgressions…Given under my hand, at the City of New York, the 3rd of October, A.D. 1789, G.Washington.”
Is pleasing myself constitutional?
“You can’t please everyone, so you have to please yourself.”
The idea that our nation was founded as a “Christian Nation” by our founding fathers is intellectually dishonest and historically inaccurate. The perpetuation of this myth, and the fact that the CP bases many of its platform positions on depriving people of individual liberty instead of protecting said liberty, goes against everything the Constitution stands for.
“I’d much rather have a govenment formulated on a worldview that says ” Love your neighbor, do good to those who treat you badly” than one that says “Kill all the infidels”.”
Sure. But these arent the only two options…
Dear Justwundr’n,
All governments are founded on some world view .
The Founders used Biblical principles to arrive at the ideology that all rights come from God (i.e. God-given) not from government, not from man and therefore could not be taken away by government’s whim.
So, in order to establish a form of government with those principles,there had to be (as with all things that follow some sort of template) an underlying basis for how we are to be governed.
The Founders all figured it would be best to follow natural law, i.e. how God layed things out rather than let some crackpot make those determinations.
Since the Founders Christian heritage was very much a part of how they lived their lives, they brought that basic philosophy into their construction of the new government.
If you’ll note they were clear that there should never, ever be an mandate for establishing a religion. (Amendment 1) ..”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion… or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”…
That being said, all it takes is a cursory look at the original writings and documents of the Founders’ to see that Christian principles overwhelmingly undergirded their ideas for a Republican form of government.
There was even a Supreme Court case that determined the country was founded on Christian principles. (Look it up ; Trinity was the case).
I’d much rather have a govenment formulated on a worldview that says ” Love your neighbor, do good to those who treat you badly” than one that says “Kill all the infidels”.
Shalom,
Mary Starrett
The Constitution Party mission statement includes this: “restore American jurisprudence to its original Biblical common-law foundations.”
Why are they called “Constitution Party” when they advocate such an unconstitutional, anti-liberty platform?
I always wondered that.