The US Constitution: NOT an old relic

A short time ago I decided to study a musty old relic...the US Constitution.

Boy, did I get more than I bargained for. It was a great, highly informative course as it turned out. The information given was like drinking from a firehose, as they say.

It’s simply amazing what I found out about it. It was drafted in 1787 to protect the rights of the People, and to limit and control the federal government. Its separation of powers are both horizontal, across the three branches of government, and vertical, distributed from the people up to local government and then state and a little to the federal government. I also found out the Judiciary was intended to be a very weak branch.

It worked well for a hundred years then the People became complacent and stopped learning about it and enforcing its principles. There are a plethora of quotes, from founding fathers to various US Presidents, about our republic and its Constitution. Now, it’s a tattered, highly abused relic of past good times.

It is the followup document to the Declaration of Independence, a document which takes about as long to read as the Constitution I found out...about fifteen minutes.

One of the many useful things I found out, I was surprised too, was that most IRS audits are conducted in violation of both the fourth and fifth amendments. Other things are that there is no separation of church and State, and that there is a thing called freedom of speech that allows churches to talk about politics. Makes me wish I had lived 150 years ago so I could have enjoyed such freedom as the Constitution guaranteed.

In it’s original form it is quite short, quite understandable, quite empowering for the People and quite restrictive for the government. In its current used form it is over 3,000 pages long. This huge book contains every court case and Congressional ‘interpretation’ that has allowed the federal government to have virtually unlimited power to control everything in our lives.

There’s lots more to learn but some people may refuse to accept these other truths.

If you want to learn about YOUR Constitution for you, your family or a group you belong to, contact nwpatriotman@proton.me .

The choice is yours. As for me, give me liberty or give me death. (Something else I learned from the course). I would rather be dead than be a slave to some tyranny. That’s the way Americans roll.

by Tom Ward