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EV,

Your excerpt is wonderful evidence of Keyes' brilliance. Especially:

We have, instead, an oligarchy based upon the dictatorship of the few. That change has already occurred. And the question is, shall we work to restore our republic or shall we sit quietly by while it is destroyed? sometimes we have a tendency to act as if the Constitution of the United States is just about institutions or just about arrangements on paper somewhere--and we forget, don't we, that the founders themselves told us quite clearly that the Constitution can only work if the individuals who man the posts under the Constitution have the necessary character, vision, understanding, and moral courage to make it work.

What does this mean? It means that if you destroy moral courage, the moral character of the people and its leadership, then you effectively destroy the Constitution.

I have heard Keyes speak in person on two occasions: once at our local Republican Committee banquet when he was seeking the republican nomintation for president, and once at a Constitution Party seminar, entitled 'The Biblical Foundations of American Law,' in Lancaster, several years later.

Both times I left his presence with the knowledge that this is a man who is immovable in his beliefs, and that his beliefs both reflect and revere those of our Founders. Which makes Alan Keyes an anomaly in modern American politics, and which also, unfortunately, bars him from higher office, because he posseses the very character, vision, understanding, and moral courage that he asserts are leadership prerequisites necessary to preserve the Constitution, but the American people no longer see them as such.

Thanks for providing the excerpt. Did my heart good to read it!

~ joanie