Part I: Government
American Principle Six (Part II)
The Written Constitution Established
By Americans Is a Tool For Governing
Governments derive "their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Declaration of Independence
The people as sovereigns have no right to delegate powers to government that are unjust. Citizens have the right to the fruits of their labor from irrational and confiscatory taxes. Those in the judiciary have the very serious responsibility to uphold lawsuits, finding that legislators or government administrators are violating the unalienable rights to equal treatment under the law intended by the Constitution.
The limited uses of government powers are addressed in the Preamble to the Constitution: "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 [meaning common needs that do not conflict with or hamper the development of the work ethic and citizen self-reliance], and secure the Blessings of Liberty [from oppression] to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
In Abraham Lincoln's immortal speech, he emphasized that we, as a people, look to God's law for justice and liberty. He dedicated the field where thousands gave their lives at Gettysburg, saying, "That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom--and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth" (The Gettysburg Address, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, November 19, 1863).
Some delegates to the Constitutional Convention believed these principles of the Declaration of Independence for guiding government action would prevail without amending the Constitution because many states had adopted a Bill of Rights. Framers at the national level felt the Constitution was adequate because they just spent four months designing ways to expose and remove evil men from government and encourage honorable employees to stay. Obviously the delegates did not anticipate the pervasiveness of the federal judiciary as it has since developed. Ultimately the Founders at the state level made a most significant contribution by insisting that the nation's Constitution be amended by a Bill of Rights.
Regardless of the rank of those in government, they are the servants, and the citizens who established the Constitution are the sovereigns. Having it any other way is a return to the long history of tyranny from the hands of evil men powered by government.
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