By Dr. ROBERT OWENS

In America today a debate rages concerning the legitimate role of government.  Currently the Federal Government is controlled by a group of politicians who consider themselves the ideological descendants of the Progressive Movement.  Beginning in the 1890s the Progressives led by Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson championed the idea that it was time to progress past America’s old ways of doing things.  They felt the traditions, forms, and style of American governance and society should break-out of the mold provided by the Constitution by casting it as a “Living Breathing Document” that could be remolded to meet the desires of every generation.

They believed, and their descendants still believe, it is the behavior of men that defines who they are.  This contrasts with our Founders who believed that it is instead the nature of men that provides this definition.  Our Founders expressly stated that they believed humanity has been endowed by the Creator with rights.  They felt that these rights are inalienable, meaning they are humanity’s by virtue of existence.  In other words, these rights have not been earned by man; they’ve been given by God and since they haven’t been given by government, government can’t legitimately take them away.  Instead of existing for its own right, the reason for government is to protect these natural rights.  It’s the need for the order, security and liberty for the pursuit of happiness, which justifies the establishment and continuation of government.

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By now readers are aware of the modern secular spin that the Founding Fathers were godless children of the Enlightenment, but their words reveal a deeper sense of spirituality, and what’s really worth noting here is the 19th century answer to diversity of religious persuasion.  It’s a lesson in tolerance everyone ought to heed.

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION

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By NANCY MORGAN

Millions of Americans watch with horror as the Obama administration continues to implement its own version of ‘change.’ Change involves an unprecedented and systematic devolution of power to the federal government, in direct contravention of the Constitution.

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