Posted on 07/15/2019 1:13:02 AM PDT by Jacquerie
Subtitle: Collapse the Rule of Law.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), winner of two Pulitzers, gave an assessment on the demise of nations in world history: “When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.”
On closer inspection we find the unmistakable sign of a failing republic, one that lost its vision, is the collapse of just law. Just law (law) protects life and property and is consistent with the Law of Nature. When government loses sight of the purpose of law, when it stops protecting the law-abiding from the lawless, and when law enforcement fades away, anarchy is around the corner.
This isn’t to imply an absence of rules. On the contrary, an explosion of unnatural and special interest-serving regulations dressed up as law often accompany the downfall. Minute regulation of normal activities in the form of thousands of petty, contradictory, and unnecessary “thou shalt nots” displace the legitimate duty of state legislatures and our Article I Congress.
Behind the Declaration of Independence were years of confusion over the law. Between 1773 and 1775 lawyers and judges had to choose the law they wanted to defend. After more than a century of governing their internal affairs, George III’s North American colonies at first resented, then actively opposed Parliamentary interference. Colonial assemblies prevented judges from accepting royal salaries. Judges in Massachusetts feared for their lives. American lawyers questioned why the colonies, chartered by English Kings to whom one and all swore allegiance, owed obedience to Parliament.1[FN Hoffer page 141 Richard III and Ireland.] Our Founders not only called out George III for high crimes, he purposely collapsed long-standing law, especially the rights earned in the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
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In saying this, without question Rodney acts like a fool.
In fact, America's demise has been due to ignorantly placing the Law of Nature above and overriding the Law of God, the one cited in the Bible and applied to our affairs until the time of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
As the Chief Justice who first placed case law above that of the Bible; and Charles Evans Hughes who is quoted as saying, "We are the Law," thus (like Satan) placing the Supreme Court oligarchy above the rule of Nature's God and Creator.
Now look at what we've got: "The fool sayeth in his heart, 'There is no God.' "
A Godless society can not long exist as a just one.
In saying this, without question Rodney acts like a fool.
I am not sure I would have been quite so blunt, but to make the leap from conditions described, to the naive necessity for exercising Article V, is a leap of gigantic proportions. A leap that ignores the left’s unexpressed desire to join in the anti-God, anti-freedom circus that an Article V Convention will surly be.
Just because it is the law, does not make the law just!
Perhaps it sounds strange to our ears today, but wasn’t that exact phrase in several several founding documents? These are words of Theists who know God exuists in their mind, they can clearly see that in the physical, astrological and cosmological evidence. They just haven’t accepted it into their hearts. Or perhaps, the scars of state religion ran so deep, they could not.
Freedom to worship God as an individual citizens was important to them. They still knew the art of politely agreeing to disagree in the devil’s details.
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