WE the
PEOPLE;
The Preamble: “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more
perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common Defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of
Liberty to Ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this
Constitution for the United States of America.”
These three words establish the intended use and definition of the word People
as a very specific subset of humanity, ie, “of the United States”, ie, citizens
rather than the painfully stretched definition the Left contends to include all
those who find themselves here by permissive guests or by surreptitious entry.
Those words also begin laying out the unified vision for a brand-new Nation,
raised up from the ashes of an armed Revolt of a People from their rightful if
not oppressive government. Three words, the meaning of which, for most of our
history were taken for granted; recently questioned for its founding intent as
either too narrowly focused or intended to be globally applied.
The Founders relied on contemporaries like Burke, Locke, Hobbes, Coke,
Montesquieu and Rousseau as well as Philosophers in Antiquity like Plato and
Socrates to build on the concept of the social contract emanating from the
agreement between free men for there can be no other legitimate expression of a
free, deliberative, protective government unless it is first established by the
very free men whom that government is established to protect.
When they first convened in May of 1787, to establish the framework for
governance, its responsibilities and limitations, they determined to start with
whole cloth versus simply cutting and pasting from established works like the
Articles of Confederation like some had proposed. Their approach was simple,
time honored and built using accepted rhetorical tools; Logic, Progression,
Redundancy where needed, Concise Language. They approached the document as if
building upon precepts established in documents and from language they had
already used and accepted like in the Articles and the Declaration of
Independence.
The Preamble identifies the purpose, establishes the source of authority, the
principle duties of the new government and one narrow definition: the People.
Considering they had just engaged in a Revolt to secure for themselves the
Right to chart their own destiny and to establish themselves as a new Nation,
it would be entirely illogical, arrogant and presumptuous to use a universal
definition of People even while the philosophy underpinning their claim, is a
universal one. The US Constitution then, is for the governance and the
limitations of that government delegated by an uniquely American
People/Citizenry, for the Establishment, Tranquility, Defense and Security of
the newly formed United States of America.
Each of the Articles and Amendments to the Constitution use progression and
redundancy as tools to emphasize their intent and to revisit their definitions
when reusing certain words and phrases which show up earlier in the document.
The word “People” has been bandied about to muddy clarity and win converts to
the idea that the word is pluralistic in its use and applies to the entirety of
the global population to justify all of whom might breach our borders and squat
here, without deliberative permission.
From that first sentence of the Preamble, the definition of the word People, is
clearly narrow in scope and refers only to those establishing the Nation and
their Posterity. Section I of the 14th Amendment then expands that definition
to include those Immigrants who are also Naturalized as citizens by Legal
Process. Thus the contextual meaning of the word “People” equals Citizenry.
Nowhere does the context change in Section I, either linguistically, stated
expansion of the definition or omission.
The past three generations of youth having been fed a steady diet of the Gene
Roddenberry science fiction construct of an altruistic, utopian, United
Federation of Planets reinforced with Academia’s teaching that the essence of
Socialism and even Communism are the manifestations of that fantasy; suggesting
not only of it being possible, but anyone being of low moral character for not
being willing to sacrifice your essential Liberty (Rights and Private Ownership
of Property) to help bring the Star Trek fantasy/global Utopia to fruition.
This, despite the entire breadth and depth of history, revealing precisely the
opposite. It is astonishing that any Nation has survived the 200-year mark much
less our approaching 250 given man’s capacity to self-destruct and even to
demand his own enslavement. Even the Bible’s core message is the almost comical
inability of mankind to keep 10, basic rules much less the 700 that the
Israelites heaped onto themselves.
In fact, the entire Old Testament can be summed up in two words: continual
failure. There is no historical evidence of people evolving or of a maintained
Altruistic spirit, no Utopia and surely no evidence of men – or women who
didn’t succumb to the base desires of the heart; Lust, Jealousy, Depravity,
Self-aggrandizement, Power Mongering, Envy, Murder, etc. Even IF Communism or
its little sister, Socialism could be justified, where are the men and women,
pure of heart that would be assigned to guide it and guard against abuse?
Pelosi, Schumer, Waltz, Harris, Schiff, Obama, Biden, Bill or Hillary (to name
a few) none of whom ever held a job in the private sector or contributed one
once of personal effort to the GDP having leeched off the Taxpayer teat their
entire lives and who are all, mysteriously multi-millionaires? They are not
unique in their self-concern, they are in fact reminders of the unquenchable,
uncontrollable, universal affliction of all men and women spanning the entire
history of mankind; past, present and future.
Its unfortunate that the Academics don’t spend at least as much time teaching
English Grammar much less history. If they did, NYC might not be poised to vote
for their first Constitutionally antithetical Muslim/Shiite/Twelver/Communist
and there might be more support for ICE and outrage toward the Democrats for
causing the problem ICE Agents are now saddled with correcting. But then those
teachers and professors were once students having been fed a steady diet of
freedom ending indoc diatribe from their first mentors/professors who were also
fed in kind.
This problem we have been witnessing is neither new nor recent. It has been
simmering for our entire existence as a Nation as evidenced by the
disagreements amongst the Founders and the final battle of the Revolution
fought a scant 84 years later in the Civil War. While the North used Slavery as
the battle cry to energize an entire generation to fight, the South focused on
the Sanctity of State Sovereignty.
That war laid to rest the argument as to whether the State or a Federal,
centralized government would be the supreme authority even while maintaining
those pesky definitions including that of the use of the word People.
Semper Fidelis;
John Bernard
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