Tyranny In America PT. 2
By Lisa Richards
October 26, 2009
When the Founders wrote the Constitution, it was not enacted into law overnight, nor was it rushed
through Congress as leaders do today, against the will of the people, the Founders debated the
document fiercely, fighting over the language, demanding states and people not lose their rights to
the federal government or a document that might include any disavowing of liberty. If only today’s
leaders had the will of the people in mind when considering bills.
The Constitution took long to agree upon, letters were sent to newspapers by the Founders,
explaining their personal beliefs, promising rights and liberties would not be trampled, the
Supreme court would never seek to steal legislative power, nor would the Constitution ever turn
into a document used to wield power against the people by enacting unconstitutional laws.
On February 21, 1787, Congress adopted a resolution favoring a convention with legislators from
states who had not yet convened. Delegates were assembled and seven states convened on May 25,
1787 proposing the Constitution of the United States. George Washington was elected president by
the convention, and on September 17, 1887, the Constitution was signed by members of the
convention. The Constitution was then submitted to congress with a resolution proposing how the
Federal Government of the United States should work.
It took until 1791 for completion. Benjamin Franklin spoke on September 17, 1787, stating:
I confess that I do not entirely approve of this Constitution at present, but Sir, I am not sure I
shall never approve it; For having lived long, I have experienced many Instance of being oblig’d,
by better Information or fuller Consideration…It is therefore that the older I grow the more apt I
am to doubt my own Judgment and to pay more Respect to the Judgments of others…I agree to this
Constitution with all its faults, if they are such: because I think a General Government necessary
for us, and there is no form of Government but what may be a Blessing to the People if well
administered…
Benjamin Franklin stated something ominous in the speech that unfortunately has come to pass:
government seizing power by overriding the Constitution with absolutism not found in the
Constitutional democracy: “I believe farther that this [Constitution and its laws are] likely to be
well administered for a Course of Years, and can only end in Despotism as other Forms have done
before it, when the People shall become so corrupted as to need Despotic Government, being
incapable of any other.”
Today’s government attempts to ram bills through the House within weeks without bothering to read
excessively long bills: Obama’s radical healthcare bill. Americans are forbidden knowledge of
details, even legislators are kept in the dark when it comes to bills too long to read. It is safe
to say excessively lengthy bills are meant to Europeanize America, taking away fundamental rights
of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Citizens have the final say on whether or not they want bills Washington pushes on the people.
More often bills are enacted against the will of the people. The Supreme Court today legislates
from the bench, enacting laws, such as Roe V. Wade, rather than interpreting the Constitution. This
is not constitutional as we see from what happened in history and what it took to pass the
Constitution into law.
Too many justices claim the Constitution is a living document that evolves with time. In some
cases we must agree that such philosophy has been valuable to the people: ending slavery,
desegregating schools and public buildings, and giving women and blacks the right to vote.
However, if an evolving constitution is so good, it would not have the underlying and destructive
intent liberals have used.
Making the Constitution a living document that evolves with time has allowed liberal justices to
harm America: Roe V. Wade gave women the right to murder their unborn children, justices use the
Constitution to turn the Supreme Court into a legislative branch taking Second Amendment rights
away from many states. To say we have a Second Amendment is not completely true when not all
Americans have the right to firearms and defending their lives.
Evolving the Constitution with time has removed the death penalty from most states under the misuse
of Article VIII’s “cruel and unusual punishment.” That clause does not apply to victims of brutal
crimes by murderers set free under the Warren Court that changed America’s justice system into one
favoring rights to violent criminals.
How odd murderers have rights, but Teri Schiavo did not.
Pot smokers want marijuana legalized under the Constitution as a medical drug despite scientific
evidence that today’s marijuana is bred to induce a dangerous opiate effect.
Terrorists have been given rights to habeas corpus despite no such rights in the Constitution—yet.
Liberals demand terrorists be treated as criminals under Article V and VI of the Constitution and
tried in federal courts rather than military tribunals.
When the Constitution is allowed to evolve with time, it is not to preserve liberty and freedom as
was done with desegregation and the end of slavery; it is to destroy the very foundations of the
Constitution.
The “evolution of devolution” belongs in Britain where Sharia law has been enacted to their
unwritten constitution. Evolving the U.S. Constitution has removed God and prayer from public
schools and public buildings, forbidden the Pledge of Allegiance in school, made Christian holidays
illegal in schools, created tolerance laws favoring Muslims, protecting honor murderers, and
criminalizing Jews and Christians. Free Speech has made virtual child pornography legal.
All have used the First Amendment to take away our First Amendment rights.
Illegal aliens abuse the Constitution in order to invade America. Amnesty is a misuse of the
Constitution, and has been legal so long, many assume it only fair “hard-working Mexicans” be
allowed “to do the jobs Americans refuse.”
The Constitution was never meant to evolve, rather continue as written in order to protect liberty
and keep America free. But thanks to progressives the Constitution has turned into a weapon of
injustice against the people.
Benjamin Franklin would be appalled to see his words turned false and became something he and the
Founders fought so long against: tyranny.
