Constitution Day Is an Opportunity to
Consider Our Founding Charter’s Necessity—and
the Threats to It
Townhall,
by
Lathan Watts
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
9/17/2022 2:35:10 AM
Sept. 17th is Constitution Day. There will be little fanfare and no parades or fireworks. It’s now fashionable to criticize this document as a relic of the past.
But these critics overlook its ongoing vitality.
While our founding charter draws from and builds upon ancient wisdom, it still offers a roadmap to our future—if we as a nation would rededicate ourselves to its precepts. William F. Buckley, Jr., once described conservatives as “those who stand athwart history yelling ‘stop!’” We might similarly define today’s constitutionalists as those who stand amidst political turmoil yelling “read!”
Take the case of 303 Creative v Elenis,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
stablemoney 9/17/2022 5:15:10 AM (No. 1279790)
The Democrats are socialists, which is contrary to the constitutional republic, liberty, individuality, and federalism. The Democrats have violated and ignored every sentence in the constitution, which they do not follow. Without the constitution, there is no agreement for governing the country, and no cohesion. We don't just disagree. I want a divorce.
3 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 9/17/2022 5:39:11 AM (No. 1279806)
There is one problem. The current Lame Duck Joe administration and its minions do not care about the Constitution nor the parchment it is written on. It's just paper. They believe the written words are words from "Slave Owners" and are no longer applicable. They ignore the document and the words, and therefore deem America's founding is bogus. The Deep State and the alphabets agree. They all believe the America that has survived for almost 250 years is evil and they are doing everything possible to destroy that evil. You can read the Constitution all you want but if you don't believe nor care what is voiced by the words, you are dooming America to dissolution.
2 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 9/17/2022 7:16:29 AM (No. 1279848)
Unfortunately, half the country will ask: “Constitution? What’s a Constitution?”. I graduated from High School back in ‘61.....when we still had teachers and an education system. We spent a considerable piece of our American History class going through the Constitution, paragraph by paragraph and line by line. We even got a pocket copy of the Constitution to take with us. What rubes we were! We could have spent that time nailing down our pronouns and deciding which gender we wanted to be.
3 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
davew 9/17/2022 9:24:24 AM (No. 1279941)
At the time of the founding there were two great political philosophers that would influence history for centuries to come. John Locke's liberal republicanism was founded on the inalienable natural law, limited government, protection of private property, and supremacy of the legislative power over the executive.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy was based on the notion that government was needed to force men to behave as they did in their "natural state" when they were "nobel savages". Private property or anything which lead to one person being unequal to another was immoral and it was the job of government to correct this inequality. The executive was superior to the legislative and individuals were only free when they accepted the beliefs and norms of the collective group. If they dissented they must be liberated by coercion to return to the norm.
Locke's philosophy lead to the American Revolution, capitalism, and our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Rousseau's lead to the French Revolution, socialism, Marxism, Naziism, Maoism, and much of the far left environmentalism that permeates our country today. We were very lucky our Founders chose to follow Locke when they implemented our Constitution despite Thomas Jefferson being a great admirer of Rousseau.
1 person likes this.
#13, I teach in a private school, and I made a big deal about Constitution Day last Friday with my 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders. I didn't have much time to prepare, so I will make an even bigger deal of it next year. But most enlightening was the answer I got was when I asked where our rights come from... without exception, students said 'the government.' I explained that our founders-- and our Constitution-- assume that citizens have certain rights simply because they're human. And that government exists to protect those rights for us-- in other words to SERVE US. Whether any of what I said took root, who knows? But I did try to plant a seed.
i
0 people like this.
Oops, that should have read #3!
0 people like this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "ladydawgfan"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Comments:
Happy Constitution Day. Read and defend your Constitution today!!