Where Do You Stand?

Our current president is expanding both the reach and scope of the federal govern-ment at a pace never before witnessed in American his-tory. Some see nothing wrong with it; others are angry and alarmed.

I suppose which side of the fence one is on depends largely upon how much faith one is willing to place in gov-ernment. Our Founders were skeptical of government; therefore they placed their faith in the people. Obviously President Obama and his faction disagree with the Founders, and are frantically trying to reorder the system.

However, anyone with even a fair knowledge of history knows that most governments have been repressive and invasive. Ours, on the other hand, is a shining exception. Of course, in recent years high school graduates have been leaving school with only a fragmentary understanding of history so they are largely unaware of that. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions regarding which of the two struggling factions, liberals or conservatives, is benefiting most due to that regrettable oversight.

Because the Founders were placing their trust in the people, they elected to establish a small government with extremely limited powers. Those powers were so limited, in fact, that they were listed in writing to minimize any future confusion that might develop regarding the nature of the government they were creating.

The Founders also believed it was absolutely essential to divide rather than consolidate even those sparse powers the people were yielding to their government. Therefore they created within the federal government three distinct bodies or branches: a legislative, an executive and a judicial.

And then, as extra insurance, they added a Bill of Rights to the Constitution that laid out in plain English where the federal government stood in relation to the people and the sovereign states whose duly elected representatives had convened to form it.

Now with all that said, I have a favor to ask of you. Today I invite all who read this to carefully and objectively analyze what level of confidence he or she has in the government now operating in Washington--the officious and oversized government that is ruthlessly and arrogantly trampling down the constitutional restraints that were wisely put in place to keep it from getting out of hand. I ask you to do this so you may determine which side of the fence you are on. For it is a matter of grave importance that each citizen of the United States knows, without question, where he or she stands in this raging struggle for control over our lives and futures.

This certainly is no time to be forgetting that our Constitution was written expressly to secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity. I ask you: Where will our security be, where will our liberty be, once the powers of government no longer rest in our hands?