Posted by
peripheral on Tuesday, November 17, 2009 6:41:42 AM
From My Perspective - - -
The Founders of our country must have been having a bad day when the
idea for This Republic was conceived. The Framers of the Constitution
erred in thinking The US Constitution would be a foundation for a free
and prosperous nation. What was wrong with the early founders: George
Washington; Alexander Hamilton; Thomas Jefferson; Benjamin Franklin;
Thomas Paine and countless other Patriots? Were they delusional? Were
they writing this document after sipping some home brew? Did they
really believe that a country and society would one day jettison many
of the principles for which the Founders were willing to state
unequivocally: “We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our
fortunes and our sacred honor…”? Whatever happened to the originating
proposition: “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”?
The Faux Pas (a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an
embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion) did not become apparent
until 233 years after the fact. If one wonders what happened, just
suppose some of the political leaders of today had been the leaders in
1776 – people like the current President; Nancy Pelosi; Harry Reid;
Mitch McConnell; John Boehner; the Federal Court System; Czar
Appointees – how would they have framed the Constitution? Would it have
included weakening the status and standing of the nation in the world?
Would it have included the takeover of Banks and Major Businesses?
Would it have championed taking control of one-sixth of the economy so
that every legal or illegal resident in the nation could have Health
Care provided? Would it contain a favorite status for Labor Unions
receiving Government Contracts (rather than the Low Bidder)? Would this
nation have survived for 233 years if the present politicians had been
involved in preparing a foundational document to “…form a more perfect
union…”? Would they have been willing to say: “We mutually pledge to
each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor…” in order to
form a nation that will endure the test of time?
Focus on the Family released the following in 2006: “The American
Experiment has the potential to prove unusually conducive to a deeper
understanding of God’s design for the state precisely because it is
unique in the history of the world. Here on these shores, and here
alone, people with a strong Christian worldview have been afforded an
unparalleled opportunity to create from scratch what they considered an
ideal system of government...The New England Primer, the second
best-selling book (after the Bible) of the colonial era, provides an
intriguing window into the attitudes of early Americans. In particular,
it reveals an outlook and a way of life powerfully shaped by the
teachings of Scripture. The pervasiveness of this outlook is further
demonstrated in statements made by America’s early political leaders,
legal and social architects, and educational pioneers – people like
Benjamin Rush, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams,
Charles Carroll, Noah Webster, and the founders of Harvard, Princeton,
and Columbia Universities. In spite of the fact that not all of them
were practicing Christians, these luminaries agreed with President John
Adams that the success of America’s republican form of government would
prove directly dependent upon the virtue and morality of her people,
and that virtue and morality are necessarily founded upon religion – by
which all meant the Christian religion…”
We have come a long way from those Founding Principles which seem to be
almost forgotten and seldom embraced or championed today! Psalm 33:12
instructs and encourages: “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people he chose for his inheritance.” Psalm 9:17 [NLT] continues:
“The wicked will go down to the grave. This is the fate of all the
nations who ignore God.” We have a choice and should have the good
sense to return to the Foundation Principles of the Nation – and – of
our Faith! Don’t let this become your Faux Pas! Consider these things
with me!