Posted on 01/07/2025 8:47:43 AM PST by Jim W N
As the Declaration of Independence (DOI) states, our individual rights are God-given and not derived from man or his gov’t.
Among those rights are Life, Liberty, and Free Pursuits. In the context of America’s founding and heritage, “liberty” or “freedom” refers directly to freedom from gov’t coercion. Our rights, powers, and freedoms are between each of us and our God.
So according to the DOI, America was founded on the principle that a very limited gov’t was a necessary evil to protect our God-given freedoms mainly from foreign threats and attacks. The people making up constitutional state sovereignty - decentralized and local gov’t - would take care of internal issues of law and order.
The greatest debate at our founding and ratification of the Constitution was the delegation of certain rights and liberties in order to create the necessary evil of a very limited national gov’t. This debate is what gave rise to the first ten amendments to assure to anti-federalists of constitutionally-protected freedoms.
Two of FDR’s “freedoms” were “Freedom from want” and “Freedom from fear”. FDR was trying to make gov’t the source of our freedoms so that our rights and freedoms would be between each of us and gov’t.
The Constitution is the protector of our individual freedoms from gov’t coercion. Gov’t is part of the protection of our freedoms, but not dispenser or source of our freedoms. FDR was trying to institute a lie by making “fear” - need for safety - as a means of undercutting the Constitution which created and severely limited the federal gov’t. As then, so now, FDR and the Left try to replace faith with fear to institute tyranny.
Beginning around 1900, society began to turn from trusting in God to trusting in man and his gov’t. From there we got FDR and his ilk making the federal gov’t mostly unconstitutional and the greatest threat to our lives, liberties, and well being.
The greatest source of success, prosperity, and wealth is not gov’t coercion, but the voluntary cooperation between buyers and sellers in the marketplace free from gov’t interference - the Free Market Economy which is individual freedom in action. As FDR did then, so now the Left hates individual freedom and the free market because the more freedom, the less gov’t and the Left as did FDR, LOVES gov’t.
Time to undo what FDR and his ilk - the Left - has done. Time to trust in God once again and restore America’s Free Constitutional Republic and eliminate the massive unconstitutional portion of the federal gov’t and LET FREEDOM REIGN.
America’s freedom was predicated on the understanding that most people have no business participating in democratic governance. THE END.
America, the American States, and the American Individual is to be governed by the American People via the Constitution whether you like it or not.
bttt
Amen and Amen! Proverbs 3:5 & 6
If you have Netflix, check out a 10 part series they have called “Hitlers circle of evil”. Probably the best documentary I’ve ever seen on the rise and fall of the Nazis, a lot of things in it I did not know.
It just really hammered home how incredibly incredibly important the DOI and the constitution are to we the people in this country, the checks and balances that keeps ASSHOLES from taking our freedom and our lives.
If Pam Bondi is confirmed and worth her salt, she MUST MUST go after these bastards that weaponized the FBI and our justice system. A message has to be sent that this crap will NEVER be tolerated again! Tyranny MUST be immediately hammered down the second it shows it’s ugly face!
All these bastards involved in the Russia collusion hoax, the lawfare against Trump and Giuliani, turning expired misdemeanors into 34 felonies, finding Trump liable for sexual assault without one single solitary shred of evidence, bankrupting Rudy for questioning the actions of poll workers, no no no, these people need to be fully investigated and held accountable, the Alvin Braggs, the Letitia James going around campaiging “I’m gonna get Trump! I’m gonna get Trump!”
And ESPECIALLY those involved in the Russia collusion hoax! They KNEW the dossier was FAKE yet they went ahead with the FAKE investigation ANYWAY for 3 YEARS!! Above ALL Hillary Clinton needs to PAY for this!! Enough with that bitch
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6600720/
This country was founded by men who knew damn well that allowing every mouth-breathing retard to vote was a recipe for disaster. That’s why the word “democracy” and any of its derivations is nowhere to be found in the U.S. Constitution.
the USA uses democracy in a limited way
to say the founders didn't want people to have a say via voting
is the height of ignorance
.educate yourself some more
( said in a buggs bunny voice /-)
Allow me to present to you the words of Samuel Adams, spoken at the State House in Philadelphia on August 1st, 1776:
“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.
Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.
The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. “
“Democracy”, the tyranny of the majority, is not found in the Constitution because America is NOT a democracy but a limited and decentralized constitutional republic.
And “Republic[an] form of government” IS in the Constitution.
Before FDR, there was Woodrow Wilson.
Yikes!
Yeah, and before Woodrow Wilson, there was Teddy Roosevelt, lover of government and initiator of pressure to make the income tax constitutional. Teddy Roosevelt was not a friend of America or the American People.
"In questions of power, let us hear no more of trust in men, but rather bind them down from mischief with the chains of the Constitution.”
In the 1792 presidential election, George Washington got fewer than 30,000 votes in winning every electoral vote.
THAT is exactly the kind of “democracy” the founders of this nation envisioned. If you didn’t own land in most states, you weren’t allowed to vote.
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