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THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE RULE OF LAW IN AMERICA
More and more Americans are viewing the nation’s foundational laws and
principles not as a source of pride but as the root of its problems. Here is
why this trend is dangerous.
The United States of America is an
exceptional nation in world history. As no other nation, it has stood for
limited government, separation of powers, rule of law, freedom of religion,
freedom of speech, free-market economy, and other principles outlined in its
founding document, the United States Constitution. These have contributed to
making America incredibly free and prosperous, a magnet for immigrants from
nations around the world, and an undeniably positive force in the world for
most of its history.
More and more, however, these
founding laws and principles are under attack. Key pillars of American history
and identity are being vilified and destroyed. Educators are teaching oncoming
generations that the enduring narrative about individual liberty and
constitutional checks and balances are a mask for wealthy, white, European men
to dominate. Such thinking has made its way into the highest levels of
America’s government, to the point that, on many issues, politicians share the
views of the nation’s worst enemies!
This trend is
terribly dangerous. Contempt for America’s heritage is fueling a wholesale
departure from it. Whereas the founders established the nation on biblical
morality, this growing movement is amoral and a-religious. It is anti-history,
anti-tradition, anti-authority and anti-law.
A breakdown in the
rule of law is devastating to a nation. Our world is filled with nations where government simply does not enforce law and
order, and as a result, criminality, corruption, bribery, thuggery and
lawlessness are rife, as are the squalor and low standards of living that
always accompany them. As America abandons the laws on which it was
established, this is its future.
America’s Founding
Fathers warned explicitly of this very problem.
To take just one example, President
George Washington said in his first inaugural address, “The foundations of our
national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality” (emphasis added throughout). In his
famous farewell address, he said, “Of all the dispositions and habits which
lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.”
In 1954, Supreme
Court Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote, “I believe the entire Bill of Rights
came into being because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the Bible and
their belief in it.”
The United States
Constitution is the foundation of the American republic. And the Bible, in many
ways, is the foundation of the United States Constitution. America’s founders
believed their republic would collapse if they didn’t keep God’s Ten
Commandments!
The rule of law is mighty difficult
to establish. The majority of nations struggle to do so successfully. Those
that do succeed, struggle to maintain it because forces of lawlessness are
always on the attack.
Early immigrants to
America knew what it meant to be deprived of freedom. Most came from the
British Empire, perhaps the greatest and freest empire in world history. Yet
even there, a government that derived its powers from the governors, not the
governed, denied its citizens freedoms of religion, speech and assembly.
So American
colonists formed their own local governments. Many statutes contained in these
compacts, covenants, frames of government and capital laws derived from the
Bible used the same phrases as the Bible and even cited biblical chapters and
verses.
As historian Paul
Johnson wrote, these God-fearing settlers “put political and religious freedom
before riches” and seeded “an experiment designed to establish the rule of God
on Earth.”
With these
convictions, America’s founders dedicated themselves to an experiment in human
freedom. If their only motivation had been to preserve their lives and their
fortunes, they would not have launched the experiment that disrupted all those
benefits. They were motivated by something greater: a belief that the natural
rights of man were “eternal and immutable” because they came from man’s
Creator.
As Thomas Jefferson
wrote in the U.S. Declaration of Independence, “We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happiness ….”
Against all odds,
the American Revolution was won. The infant nation replaced its failing first
constitution with one that would last well over two centuries. The experiment
continued, and the world watched. Could a nation still hold together if it
rejected monarchy, aristocracy and empire? Could it be strong if it staked its
existence upon the Bible’s influence on its individual citizens? Would the
American experiment succeed—or explode?
[US schools seem to
downplay the teaching of American history, the Bill of Rights and our
Constitution. This seems very apparent
in light of recent school shootings where many are calling for further
restrictions on 2nd Amendment rights without any thought of
examining why these problems are taking place especially after centuries of
nearly ZERO such occurrences].
Over two centuries have followed
since the United States ratified its Constitution. During this period, America
survived, then thrived, and then became the greatest nation in human history.
Rejecting the Constitution
America has not been without its
problems. It can be fairly said that by many measures America has been the
greatest nation in human history; however, to paraphrase Winston Churchill,
that simply means that it is the worst nation in human history, except for all
the others. Human activities have been a mixture of good intentions blended
with selfishness and evil.
Well read in history, the founders
themselves recognized that this was true. They were well acquainted with the
dangers of human nature
That is why they
emphasized the importance of religion and morality. They did not want to see
the United States of America self-destruct. That is why they sought to create a
government that could maintain necessary order while restraining the human
nature within and the tendency toward tyranny by the governors.
In the
Constitution, they established a system aimed at preserving for each person
maximum responsibility for his own life and maximum freedom to serve God
according to his convictions.
That system works
wonderfully well for a people who govern themselves by the laws of God.
However, it has also given people freedoms to exercise greed, materialism, lust,
license and other immorality. Naturally, like every nation in history,
America’s history has been strewn with imperfections, disappointments and
evils. Historically, Americans have tended to attribute many or all of these
problems to human failings to obey the natural laws established by their
Creator. Today, however, many Americans think that the causes of these problems
are America’s laws.
This hatred against
America’s existing rule of law is not just an emotional reaction among
anarchist rioters. It is also a strong ideology that has convicted the minds of
reporters, entertainers, educators, schoolchildren, workers and even top
members of the government itself.
This anti-law
ideology now runs so deep that it has affected most and convicted many of America’s
lawmakers, judges and executives. Many serve this ideology or their party more
than their actual offices. Supreme Court justices, whose offices and powers
exist because of certain clauses of the Constitution, argue that other clauses
should be twisted or ignored. Members of Congress, who are responsible for
representing the people, make laws that represent other interests. Presidents,
whose office exists to enforce laws made by the legislature, refuse to enforce
laws, and instead enforce ideas for which there are no laws.
This is a graver
danger than most people realize.
The danger of Americans rejecting the
Constitution is not simply that they disagree with its specific clauses. The
danger is that they reject the concept of a supreme law of the land, a higher
authority that everyone agrees to abide by and to change only according to that
authority. Simply put: They reject the rule of law.
Shortly after the election of
President Barack Obama in 2008, writer Gerald Flurry of the Philadelphia
Trumpet intensified his warning about the radical assault on law in
America. “History reveals that empires are destroyed if they fail to establish
the rule of law,” he wrote in his November-December 2009 article “The War
Against the U.S. Constitution.” “But the
radical liberal culture often has contempt of history and our Founding Fathers.
Its followers foolishly rely on their own reasoning, which is not grounded in
foundational law. The Constitution is being altered dramatically. And it is the
foundation of our republic! We are experiencing a constitutional earthquake,
and most of our people don’t even know it—yet. Your future is being changed for
you, and often you have no input. This process is sure to lead to anarchy!”
In 2013, Mr. Flurry showed how the
real source of the trend toward lawlessness is spiritual—an evil spirit who is
the most lawless being in the universe. Satan hates truth and law. He is
working to cast truth to the ground, to convince people to break the rule of
law and to replace it with the rule of brute force. The trend toward
lawlessness is already tearing down the foundation of America’s republic.
The Consequences of Lawlessness
The American experiment has become
dangerously volatile. In the early 21st century, Americans have added many
untested and unstable elements to the mixture. They have dissolved the bonds
that held together the Constitution and removed the “indispensable supports of
religion and morality.”
The fatal mistake is not simply
rejecting a document created centuries ago by brilliant and sincere men. It is
something deeper. It is the reason the Trumpet watches this trend so closely
and makes the bold forecast that the United States, the single most powerful
nation in the world, will fall.
Americans have rejected not only the
laws of their own land but, more importantly, the fundamental principles upon
which these laws are based. These principles are inexorable natural laws given
to us by the Creator
The Constitution gets some fundamental questions very correct.
It does so to the degree that it operates in harmony with the foundational
truths revealed by our Creator. Its authors helped to secure the blessings of
liberty to their posterity not because of their brilliance but because of their
humility before divine providence: the great Lawgiver and the Supreme Judge of
the world.
This lawlessness
will lead to anarchy and civil war, followed by America’s worst-ever military
defeat!
This is where America’s trend toward
lawlessness is leading. This is how the American experiment will end. It will
confirm a lesson that has been proved time and again through human history—and
that will endure forever
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Tasty way to keep the brain sharp:
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good reason to include one daily. Those
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dementia over the six-year study compared with those who ate citrus twice a
week or less often.
The antioxidant flavonoid
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