Liberty Lighthouse Journal: Constitution Day - Law of the Land & The Republic

Today is Constitution Day, September 17^th.

On September 17, 1787, delegates to the Constitutional Convention met to signed the document they worked so hard to create with much discussion and debate. It finally was officially the “law of the land” in 1789 and our first President George Washington was sworn in.

The confirmation hearing still continues and Democrat senators continue to degrade and corrupt those proceedings to the point that even Ruth Ginsburg has made a public outcry. They have turned a constitutional and solemn procedure into a political sideshow complete with paid protesters to constantly interrupt and perform despicable performances that include one female protester with smeared blood on her clothing. Democrat senators were so rude and insulting using Alinsky tactics that Judge Kavanaugh's daughters, there to see how a constitutional republic works, and subject to disrespectful and disgusting paid protesters present were escorted from the hearing!

While these outrageous proceedings occur We the People should readily see that it is not only our government that requires reformation, but society itself.

A republican, or free government, can only exist where the body of the people are virtuous, … for when this ceases to be the case, the nature of the government is changed, and an aristocracy, monarchy or despotism will rise on its ruin. [Samuel Bryan, Independent Gazetteer, 5 October 1787]

During those proceedings I noticed that constantly the Democrat senators referred to our republic as a “democracy” - this error has been repeated so many times through media and even Republican politicians and conservatives that they believe it.

It is also testament that our educational system needs to be wrestled from Democrat-Socialists (“Progressives” aka “Liberals”) because truth and facts are not being taught American youth who will be leaders and voters of the future.

Of course the Democrat Party wants people to believe our form of government is a “democracy” because that is what they want, complying with their agenda that has become clear – democracy to democratic-socialism and the next step of Marxism of total tyranny. Incredible that youth are embracing this Marxist movement and socialist policies that defies our Constitution and the memory of the Founders who worked so hard to make a more perfect Union. [Preamble to US Constitution]

Our nation was conceived to be a republic with certain qualities of democracy. Indeed, Noah Webster, himself a scholarly Founder, created the Webster Dictionary in 1828 he wrote:

A commonwealth; a state in which the exercise of the sovereign power is lodged in representatives elected by the people.

In the New York Journal, 1787 it was also explained ….

In a free republic, although the laws are derived from the consent of the people, yet the people do not declare their consent by themselves in person, but by representatives, chosen by them, who are supposed to know the minds of their constituents; and to be possessed of integrity to declare this mind.

Noah Webster also wrote in an article A Citizen of America published in Philadelphia in 1787 …

The sovereignty and the republican form government of each state is guaranteed by the Constitution; and the bounds of jurisdiction between the federal and respective state governments.

Avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty. — George Washington

The Federalists have retired into the Judiciary as a stronghold … and from that battery all the works of republicanism are to be beaten down and erased. — Thomas Jefferson, 1803

Man is not free unless government is limited. ... As government expands, liberty contracts. — Ronald Reagan

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it. — Steve King, Representative for Iowa, US Congress

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos. — John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1801-1835

The experience of all former ages had shown that of all human governments, democracy was the most unstable, fluctuating and short-lived. — John Quincy Adams, son of John Adams

Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death. — James Madison

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. — Thomas Jefferson

We are a Republican Government. Real liberty is never found in despotism or in the extremes of Democracy... It has been observed that a pure democracy if it were practicable would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government. Their very character was tyranny; their figure deformity. — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist Papers

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!— Benjamin Franklin

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. Thomas Jefferson

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide. — John Adams

The Founders when putting together our Constitution used two models of government as a foundation of what should be and what should not – the Constitution of Switzerland and the Roman invention of the Republic. It is the best form of government ever devised in human history, but was conceived not to be perfect so amendments were included which is called the Bill of Rights that is the first ten amendments and additions were added later to address issues like slavery, voting, and term limits of a president (but not members of Congress). President Trump endeavors to reform our government back to limitations prescribed by our Constitution, but without our society reforming itself by We the People that goal cannot be fully fulfilled. Indeed, people complain about corrupt and unconstitutional politicians, but it is the People who elect them. People too often vote for popularity instead of character and use the words of a politician as a means to decide to vote when they should be comparing that candidate's actions with words. Media that is supposed to be the eyes, ears and voice of the People have, for the most part become corrupted corporate entities who are more of a voice of democratic socialists than objectively and unbiased reporting.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams

James Wilson, Philadelphia, October 1787 …

… Regarding it then, [the Constitution] in every point of view, with a candid and disinterested mind, I am bold to assert, that it is the best form of government which has ever been offered to the world.

It is clear in The Federalist papers what the Founders created and envisioned our government should be – a republic and points out why they were against democracy, especially pure democracy that only leads to what the Democrat Party is pushing today – democratic socialism that can only further lead to tyranny and the end of our Constitution, the Republic and freedom. Naively, the millennial generation, because they have been indoctrinated by Progressives [democratic-socialists] who are allowed to discount our constitutional republic with false promises and Utopian fantasy dreams. We can see that our youth has adopted violence and policies of hatred that was used to create the Soviet Union that collapsed because Marxism cannot be sustained economically unless free nations are duped in coercing with communists like in the case of Red China. Too many Americans have been corrupted. When it came to how long our Republic would last, Benjamin Franklin was skeptical.

When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic. — Benjamin Franklin

It is only when the people become ignorant and corrupt, when they degenerate into a populace, that they are incapable of exercising their sovereignty. — James Monroe

I didn’t leave the Democratic party, the Democratic Party left me.” — Ronald Reagan

Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration, must have been a visionary when he wrote …

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities. — Thomas Jefferson

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would later establish another form of government that would be the misery and cause of death of millions and despite its evil and sordid history people still embrace it in the form of socialism and communism as well as transition from democracy to socialism called democratic socialism that the Democrat Party has adopted and portrayed as something innovative and better than our constitutional republic to attract our youth via their control of the educational system. It is a tactic right out of the Marxist playbook and Communist Manifesto.

The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions. — Karl Marx

Above all, it will establish a democratic constitution, and through this, the direct or indirect dominance of the proletariat. — Friedrich Engels, Principles of Communism

The Soviet Textbook A Dictionary of Scientific Communism defined people's democracy as follows: People's Democracy, a form of the dictatorship of the proletariat established in several European and Asian countries as a result of popular-democratic revolutions in the 1940s which developed into socialist revolutions. It emerged at a new stage in the world revolutionary process and reflected the specific way in which the socialist revolution was developing at a time when imperialism was weakened and the balance of world forces had tipped in favour of socialism. — Wikipedia

The Democrat Party has established just what the Founders warned about when creating our republic.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. — James Madison

During this time of a US Supreme Court Justice confirmation and celebrating our Constitution, we should be addressing the fact that the US Supreme Court has not acknowledged or addressed the fact that state governments have defied our Constitution most prominently Article VI of the Constitution of the United States and its Second Amendment because it is quite clear that it is the “law of the land”.

Article VI – This Constitution and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the Supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

In addition, there is the 14^th Amendment, Section I …

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Not only has our government gone beyond the limitations prescribed by our Constitution, but the judiciary has become corrupt here they ignore their oaths of office and allow laws that defy the Constitution by ignoring its authority and it being the law of the land.

The Constitution was set up to be amended so that corrections and additions could be made. When the Constitution was created in draft and discussed, a discussion about slavery being wrongful to allow in a free republic that declared in the Declaration of Independence that ...all men are created equal. Unfortunately because there was a fear that the southern colonies would defy the abolition of slavery, the matter was dropped. It took a Civil War to finally end slavery that the Democrat Party refused to give up.

Contemplate these things on this Constitution Day.

For those who have been or are being indoctrinated by democratic-socialist teachers or just want to know more about our Constitution and Republic, you can enlighten yourself by attending online courses at Hillsdale College that are free; although donations are accepted. Here is an introduction to one of their excellent courses: