Constitution Day is the Most Important

 but Forgotten Holiday this Year

 

by Scott S. Powell

 

     Constitution Day, which falls on September 17, is the national observance holiday that most Americans have never heard of. Yet this year, 2022, it may well be our most important holiday. For the Constitution is threatened more now than at any time since seven southern states seceded from Union and Civil War broke out on April 12, 1861.

      To understand the present peril, it is worth going back in time to appreciate how the Constitution was conceived as both the founding and governing instrument for the United States.

        The War of Independence lasted five long years from 1776 to 1781, with the impoverished colonial army being mostly on the defensive. It was a miracle that this small and disorganized American militia could defeat Great Britain—then the most formidable military power in the world.

        The second miracle in forming the United States was the drafting of the Constitution some years after the final and decisive military victory over the British at Yorktown in 1781. By contemporary standards, it is inconceivable how delegates from thirteen extraordinarily disparate states could muster the forbearance and magnanimity to agree on the terms of a new Constitution after only four months of deliberation.

      As good as that Constitution was, it had to be ratified by the states to become the law of the land. And several states withheld support out of fear the Constitution did not protect citizens and states from the inevitable overreach and corruption of federal government power. The hold-out influential states—Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts—finally agreed to ratify the Constitution on the condition of adding to the legal document ten amendments called the Bill of Rights which defined citizens’ and states’ rights.

       The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were revolutionary political doctrines because they clearly delineated citizens’ rights and established that these rights came from God and not the state. These rights being then sovereign and unalienable, the people are in charge and government is to serve them—not the other way around.

      The genius of the Constitution was that it limited government abuse by creating checks and balances of power between three separate but equal branches of government—the executive, the legislative and the judicial. The Constitution also separated power between the federal and state governing authorities.

      Frequent elections established by the Constitution provided yet another important mechanism to limit the extent and duration of government incompetence and corruption. This also meant that the most sacred responsibility of citizenship established by the Constitution was and is the right of the people to vote and decide who shall govern.

      This combination of limiting governmental power and maximizing peoples’ rights makes the U.S. Constitution unique in all human history. The U.S. is a young country compared to many, but it is the longest-running constitutional democratic republic in human history.   

      The Constitution makes it clear that everyone—whether in the public or private sector—is equal before the law. Additionally, every elected federal government office holder, judicial appointee and executive branch cabinet secretary is required to pledge an oath before assuming office, to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.”

      So, it comes as a shock to see the Biden administration politically weaponizing the Justice Department and FBI and violating peoples’ Constitutional Rights. Furthermore, many high-ranking U.S. Government officials—most appointed during Biden administration and some still around since the Obama administration—have walked away from their oaths of office to uphold and protect the Constitution.

      A short trip down memory lane is in order:  Remember the Mueller investigation exonerated Trump of Russian collusion, but that didn’t stop the war to destroy Donald Trump. House Democrats then proceeded to impeach Trump on two charges: abuse of power and obstruction of Congress — all hinging around a phone call Trump had with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. Trump finessed it all by making the phone call transcript public — collapsing the case and leading to vindication.

      Then came the November 2020 election. Since there had been little pushback and no penalties from previous coup efforts, even those based on fraudulently obtained FISA warrants, the Deep State and Democrat Party operatives seized on the coronavirus fear environment to make yet one more coup attempt in Trump’s fourth year — this time putting in the fix on the November 2020 election to deny Trump any chance of a second term.

      That effort in part focused on blanketing swing states with armies of lawyers filing suits to challenge voter ID laws, signature verification laws and extending the deadlines for mail-in ballots. Then there was a push for wholesale distribution of ballots and mail-in balloting and the placement of ballot drop boxes in eight swing states — all Democrat voting counties — made possible by Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg providing some $400 million.

      The voting irregularities, the unprecedented early cessation of vote counting in key swing states where Trump had sizable leads, only to get flipped in Biden’s favor the next day when vote counting restarted, reeked of foul play to Trump’s supporters, which ultimately led to them converging on Washington on January 6, 2021 in hopes — however vague or unlikely — that some electors might refrain from certifying their state’s votes pending a forensic audit.

      That was not to be and a small portion of the crowd, with incitement from well-placed agitators, entered the Capitol, creating a big media event with arrests and charges of insurrection. Shortly thereafter, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi filed yet another impeachment against Trump and later proceeded with a one-sided show trial, all clearly designed to paint Trump as an insurrectionist, which could disqualify him from being able to run for a second term in 2024.

      Now, as people have digested the recent FBI raid on President Trump’s personal residence at Mar-a-Lago, what do we the people do about this unparalleled abuse of Justice Department power? Many who find this shocking are also confronted with a realization that we really are just a step or two away from becoming a full-fledged banana republic.

      And just in case your normalcy bias still prevents you from seeing this, we all got another jolt in last month’s signing into law the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act. Among various provisions, this law provides $80 billion to the IRS to hire 87,000 new agents. That will almost double its present size, making the IRS larger than the Pentagon, the State Department, the FBI, and the Border Control combined. Such an enlarged IRS is inexplicable and makes little sense, until you do a little investigative research and connect the dots with such facts as the IRS having already stockpiled some five million rounds of ammunition and its posting advertisements for hiring people experienced, and/or willing to be trained, in the handling of firearms.

      Move over FBI, there is a new federal agency being added to the government gestapo to harass and intimidate the American people. The answer? Overcome every false flag October surprise, show up in overwhelming numbers on Nov. 8, and make sure ballots avert bullets.

 

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Scott S. Powell is senior fellow at Discovery Institute. His new book, Rediscovering America, has been #1 Amazon New Release in the history genre for eight weeks. Found here at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637581599. Reach him at scottp@discovery.org

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