(Townhall)
September 17th is Constitution Day. One wonders how many Americans will take notice. After all, no one is getting a day off, there aren’t any mattress sales, and nobody ever got insta-famous talking about our founding document.
Maybe that needs to change.
Ours is the oldest written constitution in the world. It’s an ingenious document crafted by some of the greatest minds of their generation. However, in a culture that worships the present - the latest trend or the latest video gone viral – it’s easy to understand yet no less frustrating to see how timeless principles draw criticism as out of step with the times.
Our Founders set out to establish a government on the principle that the purpose of government was to protect the God-given, inalienable rights of the people. Knowing the same power to protect our rights could be used to trample them, they put in place a system to limit the authority of the federal government. I dare you to read this document, take a look our government today and see if it even vaguely resembles the Founders’ intent.
The seemingly endless campaign season is in full swing. So, there’s no shortage of people making a lot of noise about the problems in our country. Many have sought to score political points attacking provisions of the Constitution like the electoral college. Read more
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