American Values and Principles Part Six

Part Six: American Values and Principles
So what can we do about the current state of our beloved country? I would say first know the history. Know what the founders believed, read our Constitution. But the best way to preserve the country; root yourself in the unchanging values and principles that were handed to us by God. So by knowing about our founding and our Constitution you would know that James Madison said: “The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite… The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improved, and prosperity of the State.”
The powers of the federal government as defined in the Constitution are few and defined? Who would have thought that these days?
Did you know that the founders warned against the United States drifting to the left side of the political spectrum? The left is home to today’s liberals, democrats, socialist, communist, and also of the so-called moderate republicans and compassionate conservatives. They warned against a strong central government operating from the collectivist left. They warned against the “welfare state” where the government endeavors to take care of everyone from the cradle to the grave.
Jefferson: “If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.”
They also warned against excessive taxes and deficit spending. Jefferson said it was immoral for one generation to pass on the results of its extravagance in the form of debts to the next generation.
Jefferson: “…we shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.”
Take note Obama and Congress.
The founders also warned against and did everything possible to make the ideas of socialism and communism unconstitutional.
Samuel Adams: The utopian schemes of re-distribution of the wealth and a community of goods, are as visionary and impractical as those which vest all property in the Crown. These ideas are arbitrary, despotic, and, in our government, unconstitutional.”
Now who was it again that said they want to spread the wealth around?


Now I ask you; is this against the Constitution and the ideas the Founders had for this nation?
I believe that we are so removed from what our Constitution allows and does not allow because of a lack of a proper education in this country these days. People are just not taught about the Constitution and what it has meant for the whole world. We are not taught the actual history. We hear that our Founders were racist, and the document they created was racist and that the Constitution is an outdated document from another time. I hope by now, as I have tried to show above, that anyone reading this does not or no longer believes this. Once again if we turn to our Founders we find that they were right on this issue also.
Jefferson on the necessity for an educated electorate: “If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.”
Jefferson: “No other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom and happiness… Preach…a crusade against ignorance; establish and improve the law for educating the common people. Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.”