A Better Understanding Of Our Founding...

As I study more and more on the Founding Fathers and the founding of our country, it becomes increasingly obvious that we are woefully and almost neglectfully mistaught/undertaught about this great country.

It's blatantly clear, by merely reading our Founding Father's words, that they firmly believed that this experiment called democracy would only work if we were a moral and virtuous people based on religious values. They believed that our unalienable rights came from God, not from men.

They believed, and I now see how true this is, that we would begin to wain once we began electing immoral leaders.

But what I currently find fascinating, is their vision of far right versus far left. It's no where near our current vision of conservative versus liberals. Their far right was Anarchy (No Law) and their far left was Tyranny (Ruler's Law). And in the middle, was how we were founded...on People's Law.

Interestingly enough, our first national constitution, The Articles of Confederation was too far right. It was clear, in 1787, that things were beginning to come apart quickly for this country. Each state was vastly different from the next, and the too thinly composed national government was borderline no government at all....aka near Anarchy.

So the Constitutional Convention of 1787, convened, and new laws were debated. When the convention was over, our new historical document was created.

But what the members of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 knew, is that they couldn't go too far left...they couldn't approach Tyranny's Ruler's Law.

So the brilliant part of our new Constitution, and what most people currently misunderstand about the rights given to govern us in this great nation, is the Bill or Rights, our first 10 Amendments, were promises given to the States, by our newly forming national government foundation.

The States were the first consideration of our new government, not the individual peoples....because our nation is a respecter of laws, not a respecter of people. The newly proposed federal government, which had to be ratified by each of the States, were making a promise to the States that they wouldn't restrict speech, or tell a State what it's recognized religion must be. It was promising the States that once tried of a crime, that the national government wouldn't terrorize the citizens of the States by trying them again and again.

This was the brilliance of our founding. Our founders realized that the minimal role a government played in our lives, the better. They understood that the national government should play the most minimal role in citizens lives, and that only small doses of increasing influence and power should be given to the States, then slightly more to municipals, and slightly more to townships, leaving the vast majority of power and freedom at the Family and then Individual's hands.

It seems rather clear, that this country is now far left, based on our founding perspective. The power ladder described above is nearly flipped upside down...with less power and influence in our own hands, and the national government running our lives. No, we're not living in completely Tyrannical times, obviously. But ask yourself if our Founding Fathers, who created a document with promises to the States that it wouldn't infringe on it's rights to govern it's peoples, would even remotely recognize the government structure we have today.