Elder Herbie Douglas does it again: starts with a "prophetic quote" from E.G. White and then applies the quote to "current events"...imagine that!!! This article focuses on a growing body of lawyers sand legal professors that indeed perpetuate a notion that the US Constitution is "archaic" and "downright evil" and therefore expendable!!! Get ready for a ride right into the jaws of Adventist Eschatology fulfilled!!!
Dr. Herbie Douglas, Rede Alert: March 1, 2013
“When the leading churches of the United States, uniting upon such points of doctrine as are held by them in common, shall influence the state to endorse their decrees and to sustain their institutions, then Protestant America will have formed an image of the Roman hierarchy, and the influence of civil penalties upon dissenters will inevitably result.” The Great Controvery, 445.
I have been looking at this page for more than 70 years. I have discussed this page with many people a lot smarter than I. And the usual comment has been, “How could this ever be in these United States of America where we have something no other country has—that magnificent Constitution!” In other words, THAT PARAGRAPH IS REALLY UNIMAGINABLE!
Now, you understand why we frequently have Alerts that focus in some way on the Constitution of the United States. When the question is asked, what does America stand for?--we soon fall back on those vibrant, dynamic words of our Constitution to summarize our answer. No other country in the history of Planet Earth has had anything like it!
Our Founding Fathers were not radical zealots against authority. They were highly educated men (and their wives) who had faced tyranny of both church and state. And they pledged their lives and their sacred honor as they established a Republic based on a set of shared values that were embodied in the text of our U.S. Constitution. They studied all the limitations of all other forms of government and they were willing to stake their lives on what was finally ground out in the unique Constitution.
But today, many of our leaders on academic campus and in the halls of Congress openly disregard the Constitution whenever they choose; it has become fashionable to mock the U.S. Constitution.
For example, the New York Times recently published an article by Georgetown University Professor Louis Michael Seidman entitled "Let's Give Up On The Constitution" in which he publicly called the Constitution "archaic" and "downright evil".
www.nytimes.com/2012/12/.../lets-give-up-on-the-constitution.html?...
This man has been teaching constitutional law to the next generation of lawyers at one of the top universities in the nation for nearly 40 years. theeconomiccollapseblog.com/.../can-america-survive-if-americans-n...
Unfortunately, Seidman is not an aberration. The truth is that law schools all over America have many professors that teach that we should consider the U.S. Constitution a "living, breathing document" that must "evolve" as society evolves. They also teach that when we find something in the Constitution that does not work for us today that we should just ignore it!! it.
www.infowars.com/can-america-survive-if-americans-no-longer-agre...
Granted, the U.S. Constitution can be and has been amended—27 times: ten of which are in the bill of rights, the others followed afterwards. The Constitution itself outlines how an amendment may be made. en.wikipedia.org/.../List_of_amendments_to_the_United_States_Con..
In his New York Times article Seidman insisted that "constitutional disobedience" is "as old as the Republic". But if we can just ignore the U.S. Constitution whenever we want, where does that leave us? Should we be able to ignore all laws when they are not convenient for us?
Seidman wrote: “I've got a simple idea: Let's give up on the Constitution. I know, it sounds radical, but it's really not. Constitutional disobedience is as American as apple pie. For example, most of our greatest Presidents -- Jefferson, Lincoln, Wilson, and both Roosevelts -- had doubts about the Constitution, and many of them disobeyed it when it got in their way. [Such statements can be examined for time and place!]
He continues: “To be clear, I don't think we should give up on everything in the Constitution. The Constitution has many important and inspiring provisions, but we should obey these because they are important and inspiring, not because a bunch of people who are now long-dead favored them two centuries ago.”
Seidman concludes: “This is our country. We live in it, and we have a right to the kind of country we want. We would not allow the French or the United Nations to rule us, and neither should we allow people who died over two centuries ago and knew nothing of our country as it exists today. If we are to take back our own country, we have to start making decisions for ourselves, and stop deferring to an ancient and outdated document.”
Of course, we do live in a country that guarantees free discussion. But the glory of our country is that it has survived more than 200 years held together by a precious document—name me another country with that history!
Yes, as pointed out in many places these days, the United States does have its problems. But should we blame the document, and not the lack of adherence to the law, as reason for our country's condition? If people are continually being murdered, is it the law that says no person should take another's life-- inadequate and outdated? Should we rethink laws against murder?
At its heart, the Constitution was written to restrain government and retard the “devolution” of our government into tyranny. This document has served us very well, so far. The only alternative to support replacing our constitution is a direct democracy—the very alternative that was tearing France apart in the last of the 18th century and Athens (178 years) in the 4th and 5th BC--and our leaders did their best to avoid those colossal mistakes. Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States, further explained that "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." voices.yahoo.com/democracy-political-system-failed-ancient-460012.
Let's tuck these thoughts away in our frontal lobes, ready to be pulled out whenever we see/hear any leader--whether academic, political, financial, religious, or whoever—with silver tongues and golden promises that seem so believable to at least 51% of our country. In those tough days in 1776-1790, men and women were staking their lives and their sacred honor that we today could enjoy more than two centuries of relative peace and prosperity.
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