Downfall Pt 6

Part 6

Since the Constitution is of great importance and it deserves a lengthy discussion, I will try to break my thoughts down into one article per section of the Constitution. Before I start I would like you to read the words of Patrick Henry before you begin considering what I have to say.

"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government--lest it come to dominate our lives and interests."

I will begin our discussion with the Preamble. If you have done any kind of writing, the Preamble is just basically an opening statement. It defines the purpose and intent of the document that follows it. The Preamble to our Constitution says:

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

There are 52 words in the Preamble to the Constitution, but they contain enough meaning to fill pages. I would like to go over a few of the points I find of most importance.

The first words, "We the people of the United States...", declare that this document, which forms our government was created by the people of this country. It does not mean it was written by any existing form of government, it was written by the people themselves. It could have been written by you and I had we been alive back then. It would be obvious then that the people would write a document that would protect their rights and liberties and provide for their best interests.

The next part states "...in order to form a more perfect union...". That would imply that it was written to create a form of government that was to benefit the union, and by union it meant the United States of America.

This point is important in that the Constitution was written by the people to create a form of government that would form a more perfect union of the United States. It was written to defend we as a people, states, our sovereignty as a nation, and not to benefit any country other than ours. Remember this fact later!

Following that it continues with, "...establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity..."

That in itself is a mouthful and is of great importance today. Are we establishing justice when criminals have more rights than their victims? Are we providing for the common defense with a flood of illegal aliens entering this country at will? Are we promoting the general welfare when we allow businesses to outsource labor to other countries and do away with American jobs? Are we securing the blessings of liberty when our rights are being trampled upon by new legislation, NSA spying, and a blind Supreme Court?

Finally the Preamble closes with, "...do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America." To reiterate what I said earlier this closing statement says that this Constitution is for us, the United States. It is not meant to benefit the United Nations, Mexico, or any other country. It establishes us as a sovereign nation and creates the form of government we are to have.

The Constitution was considered by those who wrote it to be of great importance. The writing of it was fraught with disagreements over the form our new government should take. Finally these wise men came together and created the form of government that best established security for our country and at the same time protected the rights of the people. John Jay wrote, in the Federalist Papers,
"WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as well as a very serious, view of it, will be evident.

Even though the Constitution has been ratified for years, don’t you think if it deserved that much attention by the people back then that it’s importance should not be diminished? Don‘t you think that what it says should be just as important for you today? Get a copy, read it, ponder what these men meant when they wrote it.
With that thought in mind if we take a close look at the Preamble we can already see there are some problems with the government we have today as envisioned by those wise men who wrote the Constitution.