POST CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICA
What does this mean, and are we living in it? If so, what can be done about it?>
I have often heard Mark Levin say that, “we are living in a post constitutional America.” I have been reluctant to agree with this sentiment. Surely, there is a US Constitution, and we still have the three branches of government as established in the US Constitution.
There is the legislative, (Article 1, or Congress,) the executive, (Article 2, or the President, and his administration,) and the judicial, (Article 3, or the Supreme Court, and the lesser federal courts constitutionally established.)
Yes, these things exist, and those elected to federal office pledge to, and at least pretend to be operating according to constitutional provisions, but are they?
Article 1- Are the federal laws that we are required to obey, under penalty of prosecution really drafted, debated, and passed in Article 1, or Congress? Have they all then been signed into law by the residing President of the United States of America, or have the vast majority of them been written by federal bureaucratic staffers, and issued without congressional scrutiny?
Article 2- Is the execution of federal “laws” given to the President of The United States of America, (and his appointed federal staffers?) Do all of these federal, executive agents faithfully answer to the US President, or has his power often been limited by unfaithful cabinet members and federal judges when they do not further the goals of the modern Democrat Party, and leftists?
Article 3- Is the Supreme Court honestly interpreting whether laws are in concert with the Articles, Amendments, and statutes of the US Constitution, or are they operating as a “super legislature?”
Steve Deace often says that the USA, “is not governed by the rule of law, and it never will be. It is governed by political will, and it always will be.”
Like with Levin’s assertion, I have always bristled at Deace’s proclamation. I do not want to believe either of these things. I believe that the USA is the greatest country ever given to man, and I believe that our governing system is the greatest ever constructed. I believe that the framers of our constitution were inspired by the Bible, and God’s wishes for the government of mankind. I don’t believe that an honest argument can be made against this belief, but the righteousness, and the efficacy of our constitutional republic is limited by the righteousness of the people that are in charge of it. That includes all of those elected or appointed to positions, and to those that have elected them, or allowed for their appointment, (that’s you, and me.)
At the close of the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787, as Benjamin Franklin left the hall in Philadelphia, he was asked, “What kind of government have you given us, Dr. Franklin?” He replied: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
I ask, how might this “republic” be kept? I believe that John Adams said it best. “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
We Americans are here in America, at the time of God’s choosing. We have been given the Word of God, the Bible, and given a charge, “But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.” America falls within the uttermost part of the earth, and if we are to fulfill this commandment, we must resist the urge to call evil good, and good evil. We must effect the political will to the point that we are governed by the rule of law. Laws must be the same for the just, and the unjust, the rich and the poor, the powerful, and the weak, the atheist, and the Christian, the Democrat and the Republican.
This is a tall order, there are established precedents. Error has been committed by our forefathers, and mothers for decades, and even centuries, but that does not make that error correct. It just makes it harder to correct.
I believe that we Christian Americans, in addition to our responsibility to lead souls to Christ, we are required to give our best efforts to correct the errors that have undermined our constitutional republic, and allowed evil to triumph over good. We must exert the political will to require the rule of law.
God bless you, Dave