Read, learn, defend our Constitution
Read, learn, defend our Constitution
Whether you're Republican, Democrat or neither, it is so important that people understand that there is one thing that protects us, the people, from tyranny. It's called The Constitution of the United States.
Our founders were wise enough to know that human beings are corruptible. So rather than ask the people to depend on their and their successors' good will and benevolence, they put limits on how much power any one person, or any group of people, could have.
The Framers gave us two methods of amending the Constitution. They purposely made it difficult to amend, so that a political majority could not easily oppress a political minority. It should alarm us - all of us - when anyone from any party opines that, or acts like, the Constitution is no longer relevant, or it should be abolished, or ignored, or be "flexible" outside of the amendment process.
At the end of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, a woman asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?" Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it."
The Constitution is only a document, but it is what stands between you and tyranny. Read it, learn it, defend it. Insist that your elected officials do the same.
Tyler Benjamin
West Chicago