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Tuesday, February 27, 2018

THE DESTRUCTION OF THE RULE OF LAW IN AMERICA


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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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2 comments:

Larry said...

As you and others have stated so often, today's generation seem to have little knowledge about our history and the trials our Founders went through to achieve the liberties we have today as a result - they seem too busy tearing away at those very foundations.

Sarah said...

We seem to one set of laws for those in DC and another set of more RESTRICTIVE laws forced upon the rest of us by unelected jerks without benefit of citizen input, thus voiding the meaning of a representative government...hence the term DEEP STATE and we need to eliminate this evil from our lives.