Servant or Ruler? You Choose...
There are two kinds of government actions - they can serve the people or rule the people.
Most of the governments throughout history have been predominantly the ruling type, and most today are the same. Back in the middle to late 1700s, there was a group of guys who thought the world would be better off turning the equation around to create a government that would serve the people. That is the real significance of the American Revolution.
There are some key words in the Declaration of Independence that point out this fundamental principle: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.." There it is, right in plain sight. Just and legitimate government cannot have any power not delegated to it by the people on the basis of their natural rights. So, this principle is the foundation upon which rests the Constitution of the United States.
This principle was so well understood that many fought against the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution - it was redundant, and they feared that it would give the government an excuse to regulate that which the government had no right to even consider regulating.
Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, agricultural subsidies - all so-called entitlement or "Robin Hood" programs - clearly violate this principle because they take by force the property of one person and give it to another person - not something you or I can do without risking arrest and jail time. When our federal government engages in this type of behavior, the less it is a just and legitimate government and the more irrelevant our Constitution becomes, given that the foundation on which it rests is being chipped away.
What are the consequences of diminishing the Constitution? Each chunk taken out of the foundation weakens the structure, until it collapses and becomes irrelevant. At that point, you have no rights except those granted by government. That means you are no longer free, but a vassal of the state.
There is a lot of debate about the involvement the federal government should have in a reformed health care system. Know this - the so-called "public option" or the single-payer system, undermine the Constitution and threaten its destruction.
Most of the governments throughout history have been predominantly the ruling type, and most today are the same. Back in the middle to late 1700s, there was a group of guys who thought the world would be better off turning the equation around to create a government that would serve the people. That is the real significance of the American Revolution.
There are some key words in the Declaration of Independence that point out this fundamental principle: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.." There it is, right in plain sight. Just and legitimate government cannot have any power not delegated to it by the people on the basis of their natural rights. So, this principle is the foundation upon which rests the Constitution of the United States.
This principle was so well understood that many fought against the inclusion of the Bill of Rights in the Constitution - it was redundant, and they feared that it would give the government an excuse to regulate that which the government had no right to even consider regulating.
Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, food stamps, agricultural subsidies - all so-called entitlement or "Robin Hood" programs - clearly violate this principle because they take by force the property of one person and give it to another person - not something you or I can do without risking arrest and jail time. When our federal government engages in this type of behavior, the less it is a just and legitimate government and the more irrelevant our Constitution becomes, given that the foundation on which it rests is being chipped away.
What are the consequences of diminishing the Constitution? Each chunk taken out of the foundation weakens the structure, until it collapses and becomes irrelevant. At that point, you have no rights except those granted by government. That means you are no longer free, but a vassal of the state.
There is a lot of debate about the involvement the federal government should have in a reformed health care system. Know this - the so-called "public option" or the single-payer system, undermine the Constitution and threaten its destruction.
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