THE CONSTITUTION

            Our Founding Fathers fought and sacrificed for their freedom, as well as ours, and established the “By-Laws” under which our country would operate:  The United States Constitution.  They examined their combined experiences of previous governmental abuses and were determined that this new government would be ruled by the people.  The government would not be allowed to abuse the people, in the same manner as other governments.

The Founders of our Nation wanted the Federal Government to be limited.  They specified in the very First Article, under Section 8 of the Constitution the only areas in which they wanted Congress involved in the lives of the people.  They could only pass laws regarding Taxes, Debts, Credit, Defense and General Welfare, Commerce, Naturalization, Bankruptcies, Weights & Measures, Counterfeiting, Post Offices, Copyrights & Inventions, Courts, Felonies on the high seas & against other Nations, Funding and Ruling over Military Groups & Properties, as well as over the Capital.  That’s it.  Eighteen Clauses.

            More and more laws are becoming established as a result of judicial decisions in absolute contradiction to the intentions of the authors of the US Constitution.  These decisions have been allowed to stand because Congress has abdicated its authority to challenge such decisions.  The President, the Courts and Congress have continued to ignore the US Constitution and have seized powers, which the founders of our Country fought to restrict.

            The Supreme Court no longer acts as it was intended by checking and balancing the unconstitutional actions of Congress and The President.  It has degenerated from its Constitutionally intended responsibilities as one third of the Government, charged with checking and balancing the President and Congress, by insuring that they operate within the “By-Laws” of our Nation, to nothing more than a political extension of Congress and the President.  They are appointed more for their political philosophies and past decisions, than for their knowledge and understanding of the Constitution, resulting in mostly 5 to 4, or 6 to 3 decisions, for the most part decided on their political affiliations. 

            The Supreme Court appears to base their decisions on how they, or their political affiliates, wish the Constitution had been written instead of how it was.  They put their own interpretations on words never intended by our founding Fathers.   We don’t need to understand “legalese” to know what the founding Fathers were attempting to achieve in the First Amendment, we only need to be able to read and write English.  After all, George Washington wasn’t an Attorney, but he knew the meaning of the Constitution. 

            We need to appoint to the Supreme Court people who have made a life out of studying the Constitution, including the supportive writings and arguments, thereby knowing the intent of our Founders.  That person would much better serve the Nation than a Judge, who has made a life out of arguing words and sometimes missing the intent.