The United States Constitution, that vessel which contains our founding principles, limits our national government. It does not do so slightly, but fundamentally, boldly, and unequivocally: “Congress shall make no law,” “…shall not be infringed,” “…not without consent,” “…shall not be violated,” “…shall not be required,” [and] “…powers are reserved to the people.” This is the language of limitation, of constriction, and of governmental disempowerment in key areas of our lives. The fire-breathing dragon of constitutional unambiguity gave birth to history’s first truly free self-sovereign people.
From almost the start, the dragon-slayers in Congress, in the White House, and most of all the courts have sought to slay the constitutional dragon that stood between them and bureaucratic control over the people they wanted to rule. Congress passed laws that the Constitution prohibited, presidents executed actions the Constitution forbade, and the courts far too often declared that the principles and limits written into the constitution were null and void and meant nothing more than what the self-absorbed political hacks and social crusaders in the courts declared they meant.
It is the Supreme Court and the circuit courts—partners in crime—that have been, over the course of our history, most responsible for rendering the roaring dragon of our constitution a dying and wounded causality of American politics. The courts were supposed to be the guardians of constitutional integrity, the keepers of the vision of limited governmental intrusion into our civil society. The federal judiciary was to be the Constitution’s protector but in the end judges often acted like child molesters left to care for young children. They abused and raped the principles of constitutionally limited government intrusion into our daily lives and confiscation of our property.
These are strong words but I make no apology for them. Those who have knowingly and gladly strangled our constitutional republic and allowed us to be placed at the mercy of the tyrants inside the Beltway deserve more than a bit of vitriol spit in their direction. The times call for holding the courts to unadorned accountability for their destruction of the principles they were empowered to protect.
Despite the darkness of the hour, despite the fact that we have an self-serving Congress, a President that knows no limits and a government that spends us into bankruptcy against our will, despite the fact that our President seeks a Federal Civilian Security Force on the scale of the U.S. military, despite the fact that the defenders of the constitution are seemingly outnumbered in the courts, we can bring the constitutional dragon back life. To this end, we must swear an oath to cast no vote for any candidate not demonstrating clear allegiance to the constitutional limitations on the power that our national government wields.
