Posted on 06/28/2015 7:05:38 AM PDT by ziravan
A Collusion of Powers
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." - John Adams
Our founders were very afraid of the native impulses of people, including themselves. Power is a very potent drug. As a result, they devised a government that is supposed to function such that the natural tendency of men to seek power will work against itself. There is a separation of power and authority within a Congress divided into two branches, within a federal government divided among three branches and with a federalism that divides power in three additional ways, between the federal government, state governments, and the people.
With so much much power directed at cross purposes, the corruption of unlimited power would be forever elusive; a separation of powers would prevent that outcome. Indeed, for the balance of American history, this has been the case, and America has prospered.
America has also greatly prospered because we have been a moral people.
Christianity is a pyramid, with the highest tip being praise and graciousness to an Almighty God. At its base, Christianity is a prescription for how to live in society. Are we promoting religion in a secular society when we ban murder and theft? Heavens no! The fact that basic rules for social order and basic religious commands co-align isn't some cosmic accident.
Indeed, to the extent a nation embraces a moral code that co-aligns with a Judeo-Christian matrix, that nation surely will prosper. "Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin condemns any people." - Proverbs 14:34. Americans aren't a special people by the nature of our DNA. American Exceptionalism is intricately tied to our being exalted as a righteous nation.
Our exceptionalism is at risk today moreso than at any time since our founding. The Supreme Cabal's recent decision to ignore both our history and its own mandate isn't the cause of the threat to the Great American Experiment: it's the result of two generations of moral drift.
The Supreme Cabal's greatest threat to our society didn't begin with Friday's decision to debase the concept of marriage. No. Our society has been under assault for more than fifty years with the Cabal's demand that religion must be removed from polite society. If church and state must be separated (and this isn't a Constitutional concept), then it should have been the state taking a back seat, not religion. In the classroom, given the choice of rooting out influence by the church or state, the state should have been dismissed.
Instead of teaching our children to live by a moral code, we've taught our children that such a code is unspeakable in polite society. The Cabal's decision on Friday only codifies a growing consensus of a nation that no longer takes its own moral temperature. We've dismissed the very thing that makes America exceptional.
Our Founders devised a method of government that was kept in check by both a separation of powers AND by assuming that our principle political actors would be a moral people. When morality left that equation, separation of powers alone could not and does not hold ground.
In Federalist 10, John Adams described our construction of government that holds powers in check as necessary because "enlightened statesmens will not always be at the helm". Prophetic.
A society bent on throwing off its moral cohesiveness is a society at war with itself. As a result, we have a government more concerned about passing out goodies (and Friday's Cabal decision was just that) than maintaining our integrity as a people. Unfortunately for the direction of our current societal trend, our Constitution and our history stand in the way of the direction in which we now careen.
And so, in order to give the people the government it demands, the old order is swept away. We no longer have a separation of powers; we have a government that has vested itself in a collusion of powers. Because it suits their desires, far too many people applaud the collusion. The end justify the means.
Our separation of powers have been swept aside, and with it, the scaffolding that created a Republic. A confluence of powers concentrated in a few hands has always been a recipe for liberty denied. Dangerous times lie ahead for our Republic.
"Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter." Isaiah 5:20. This is where we are as a people. THIS is the result of two generation of telling God and His plan for us to take a backseat.
The less moral we become as a people, the less our constitutional frame of government will work in our favor. Morality and exceptionalism our intricately linked. "Human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected." - George Washington.
Pray for our nation.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” - John Adams
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There’s the rub.
Well said.
We should be mindful that this ‘mutual cooperation’ is being facilitated in no small measure by the Republicans in congress. They have done precious little to halt the erosion of freedom at the expense of the of expansion of government power.
And the means we have an oligarchy, which if my history lessons are true...two things can happen from here. A dictatorship or anarchy. https://youtu.be/FDS1OHk7Lf8
Very righteously and succinctly said.
From the pulpit today:
“Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.”
Psalm 127:1
From the pulpit today:
“Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain.”
Psalm 127:1
I guess that was worth saying twice...
And when the parties join together, or at the very least cooperate for a shared purpose, the people who are not party insiders are left out in the cold.
It's not the absence of morality that is our biggest problem; it's the political parties.
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