Change The Constitution ?

 

This morning I read a couple of articles that were commenting on a column written concerning the US Constitution, the column suggesting that the constitution isn't working and it needs to be changed to reflect today's world, not the world of 1787. Suggesting that because most Americans have lost faith in the institution of government and those allegedly leading it, that the document needs to be changed

While I too have no faith in the government, regardless of party control, it is not the constitution that is at fault. The fault lies with those so called leaders that fail or out right refuse to follow the constitution that are the problem.

Whether it's 2022 or 1787 tyranny is the same. The faces may change, and some small details might be different but tyranny ,at it's heart, hasn't changed. Our founding fathers knew this, they had lived it.

No, the problem is not with the document, the problem is that for many years that document has not been followed. If it had been we wouldn't even be thinking about it.

The federal government powers were limited to a very few things such as defending the country, coining money and passing laws that were in accordance with the constitution.

The three branches of government, the executive, the legislative and the judicial all had their very specific roles to play and were meant to be checks and balances against one rule tyranny. They were never meant, as we have seen in the last few decades, to over lap.

Most of the power was meant for the individual states to have, not the federal government.

In the beginning they only met for short periods of times and , at best , had a stipend to compensate them for their time. There were no full time politicians.

There was no massive federal government institutions (see the part about limited government) employing 1.5 million workers, there wasn't even a standing army at the time. When the government can go into a partial shut down and lay off 800,000 as “non essential” you know it has become way to big.

For the most part, up until the civil war, the federal government stayed out of the states business and the states left their people alone. Then everything started to change. Not to the degree we see today, but it started there.

Since that time, the constitution has been ignored repeatedly.

Woodrow Wilson is responsible for the creation of the federal reserve, negating the governments responsibilities in creating and backing of our money. Nixon took us off the gold standard and so now our money is virtually worthless.

The “great society” created by Lyndon Johnson put in place what is now a series of massive social programs and institutions, again negating the constitution, that spoke of limited government.

George Bush the younger after 9/1/1 created a bunch of lettered security agencies to allegedly spy on our enemies, and apparently on us, that has gone from a few to something along the lines of 16 or so.

We have allowed our government to run us all into pointless wars ( none declared by congress since WW2) for decades now, the last time there was any real opposition was during Vietnam but the government kept it up anyhow until they were forced to quit.

There are countless examples of this kind of government expansions from both parties, more then I can write here, but that's not the only issue.

We have three branches of government, as I mentioned before, and all of them have a purpose of which none of them seem to be following.

The executive is supposed to uphold the laws and defend/ follow the constitution.

The legislative is supposed to make law and provide for spending.

The judicial is to uphold laws and determine whether or not a law is constitutionally sound.

All of this is supposed to be with the consent of the people.

Instead we have the executive making laws with a stroke of a pen without the approval of the legislative and completely ignoring things, such as the border and national defense, of which they are charged to do.

We have a legislature that is so out of touch with their constituents, that instead of doing what they are told to by the people they represent, they instead go with whatever either the big corporations want or their party demands no matter how destructive it is to the country.

The judicial has become a kangaroo court for what ever is popular and totally ignores the fact that they are supposed to interpret laws according to the constitution not their feelings.

The problem is not the constitution, the problem is those elected, by the people, are not doing their job of upholding the will of the people or the words of the constitution.

So rather then “fix” the constitution, which isn't the issue, we need to go back to it.

We need to get rid of all the useless government agencies that tax and regulate us to death.

We need to hold all our representatives feet to the fire, if they are not doing as we wish, remember they work for us, then they should be recalled and fired.

Term limits should be in place, no more lifetime politicians.

There should be put in place an amendment that would hold the judicial to following the constitution as it is written rather then by feelings and there should be a system in place to fire them if it becomes obvious that they won't.

The executive should be limited to only using executive orders in an emergency and even then it should go through some sort of review by the other two branches to assure it is constitutionally sound.

I am sure that there are many more suggestions that could be made but really until “we the people” stand up and demand change and a return to the constitution will anything come of this.

The powers that be certainly aren't going to give it up willingly.

So the problem is not with the constitution, the problem is with those that refuse to follow or enforce it.