The Constitution of the United States is not a Rorschach ink blot representing whatever liberal-progressives imagine it to depict. Nor do its principles evolve in Darwinian fashion like fruit flies producing a new generation with random variations every ten days.
Read America’s Timeless Constitution, an editorial on the Investor’s Business Daily website.
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During most of the past century, novelists, historians, and academics pursued a deep love affair with the secular materialism of the French Revolution. Historians like Vernon L. Parrington and Charles A. Beard wrote volumes promoting the idea that the true spirit of America was a relentless drive to eliminate private property rights and to empower the masses through a process that the Socialist Party terms social democracy.
In the long battle between the English monarch and his subjects, beginning with Magna Carta in 1215 and extending to our 1776 War of Independence, the thrust was to restrain the rulers within a framework of checks and balances that tended toward fairness. One term, arbitrary, was frequently used to characterize unfair exercise of political power.
Political structural safeguards against arbitrariness were essential aspects of our Constitution. Increasingly since the 1930s New Deal, under socialist Franklin Roosevelt, those safeguards have been destroyed. Ever more power has been taken from states and local governments and usurped by the Federal government.
That process has reached new depths of degradation in the Obama administration. Treatment of bondholders in Chrysler and GM, as but one example, was of the same order as arbitrary seizures of money and property by monarchs, from King John to James II.
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