He Who Saves His Country Will First Save The Constitution
All the talk about saving our country and making it great again has been tossed about in conservative circles for nearly ten years now. If we’re being honest with ourselves, we will never be able to save our country unless we first focus on saving the Constitution.
Here are the 20 reasons why:
1. The Constitution was not some historical accident. Its origins are divine. Madison testified that “It is impossible for the man of pious reflection not to perceive in it a finger of that Almighty hand.”[1]
2. We would not have the Constitution without the sacrifices or the leadership of our first President George Washington who turned down the invitation to become America’s first king.
3. In case you missed it, there was no greater President. God spared George Washington’s life over and over again or, as he put it, "I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation."[2]
4. George Washington survived smallpox, malaria, infections, abscesses, tuberculosis, dysentery, and a boil "the size of two fists."[3]
5. On another occasion, he wrote that “I had 4 Bullets through my Coat, and two Horses shot under me yet although death was levelling my companions on every side of me, I escaped unhurt.”[4] He had so many close calls with death, it was said that he was rumored to be dead.[5]
6. Finally, there is the story of the “old Indian chief” who travelled a great distance just to see the “young warrior” that “the Great Spirit protects.” The Chief met the warrior George Washington by the Ohio River and explained the purpose of his travels – “I am a chief and ruler over my tribes . . . I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle . . . Our rifles were leveled, rifles which, but for you, knew not how to miss . . . I had seventeen fair fires at him with my rifle and after all could not bring him to the ground! Seeing you were under the special guardianship of the Great Spirit, we immediately ceased to fire at you.”[6]
7. It wasn’t enough for President Washington just to defeat the most powerful nation on earth at the time for he understood that the country could not survive without our divine Constitution, which is why he presided over the Constitutional Convention to ensure its passage and ratification.
8. In his Farewell Address to the nation, he told us that we have a sacred obligation to uphold our Constitution – “the Constitution . . . is sacredly obligatory upon all” and must be “sacredly maintained.”[7]
9. The Almighty gave us our Constitution in order to keep us safe and free. Benjamin Franklin warned that the Constitution will “be a blessing to the people, if well administered” but predicted that it would “end in despotism” when the “people become so corrupted as to need despotic government.”[8] All of the government waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption that has been recently exposed by D.O.G.E. validates what Benjamin Franklin was warning us about.
10. The Framers understood that the Constitution would only be destroyed by subtle encroachments. Madison issued the somber warning that “there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power, than by violent and sudden usurpations”.[9]
11.We have been completely oblivious to the silent encroachments of our corrupt politicians for over 160 years as proven through the recent discoveries by D.O.G.E. and others. This despotism has destroyed our Constitution to the point where it exists in name only.
12.The Constitution created a national government with very specific and very limited powers. Madison explained it this way – “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the Federal Government, are few and defined.”[10]
13.Those few and defined powers relate specifically to “war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce” that specifically affects the United States.[11]
14. There are no powers listed for almost all of the administrative agencies currently operating in Washington, D.C. If someone is going to save the country, ALL of these unconstitutional administrative agencies must be closed down first, which includes the HHS.
15. The three fundamental powers of government – i.e., making laws, enforcing laws, and interpreting laws – are divided separately among three branches of government – Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. All three have started to exercise the others’ powers – Legislative exercises executive powers of investigation with their “oversight committees”; Executive legislates with Executive Orders and interprets laws via administrative law judges; and Judges legislate by judicial opinion. If someone is going to save the country, ALL of this constant violation of the Separation of Powers must stop.
16. War can ONLY be declared by Congress. If someone is going to save the country, they need to stop engaging in war without a declaration from Congress.
17. If someone is going to save the country, we need to stop being the world’s policeman. “It is our true policy”, George Washington explained in his Farewell Address, “to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world;” He gave us the “Great Rule”, wherein we were told to have political connections with none. The Great Rule was reaffirmed by John Quincy Adams who explained that we “go not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.” To do so, he warned, would make us the “dictatress of the world” – a condition in which we now find ourselves. It is not our job to fix problems in the Middle East, the Ukraine or anywhere else.
18. We have trashed our Republican form of government in favor of a democracy. If someone is going to save the country, they need to stop the popular elections of the President and the Senate and follow the Constitution. This will put the power back into the hands of the States and destroy the power of the political parties.
19. We need to return to the only authorized money of the Constitution, which is gold and silver, if we are serious about saving the country. This also means that we need to destroy the Federal Reserve.
20. Finally, if someone is serious about saving the country, we need to force Congress to limit spending only on the things that are authorized by the Constitution. There is NO power to fund any of the welfare programs or all of the other taxpayer-funded programs being uncovered by D.O.G.E. Governmental taxing and spending is limited to funding only the express powers listed in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution. If there is no power listed, then there is no power to spend.
George Washington sacrificed everything to give us our Constitution. It is all that matters to us as a country. We should be more concerned about reinstating the Supreme Law of the Land rather than breaking laws in order to save the country. Our loyalty should be to our U.S. Constitution.
Madame Publius
[1] Madison, The Federalist Papers, Ltr. 37, ¶14
[2] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-01-02-0169
[3] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/02/24/george-washington-shockingly-hard-kill/98344980/
[4] https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/02-01-02-0169
[5] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/02/24/george-washington-shockingly-hard-kill/98344980/
[6] https://suindependent.com/indian-legend-george-washingtons-divine-protection/
[7] George Washington, Farewell Address, 19th September, 1796, ¶¶16, 6
[8] Benjamin Franklin, Speech in the Constitutional Convention, at the Conclusion of its deliberations, Delivered September 17, 1787
[9] Madison, Speech given at the Virginia Constitutional Convention to support and ratify the newly proposed U.S. Constitution on June 6, 1788
[10] Madison, The Federalist Papers, Ltr. 45, ¶9
[11] Id at ¶6