THE UNDENIABLE WISDOM OF AMERICA’S FOUNDERS: WHY MORTAL HUMANS LUSTING AFTER ABSOLUTE POWER MUST NEVER BE TRUSTED!
THE UNDENIABLE WISDOM OF AMERICA’S FOUNDERS: WHY MORTAL HUMANS LUSTING AFTER ABSOLUTE POWER MUST NEVER BE TRUSTED!
Leo Emmanuel Lochard Thursday, December 15, 2022
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Though flawed in their miraculous undertakings to create a new form of Human governance on the Earth, e.g., Human slavery atavistically continued and women were prevented from political participation through voting, still, our American Founders, were neither cynical pessimists, nor naive utopians.
But, due to their faith in God as Creator of the Universe, they were imbued with eternal Hope that “a free people could govern themselves without the whip of a task master.” (American Founder, Thomas Jefferson).
General George Washington, after victoriously ending the American Revolutionary War, in 1783, did not declare himself “emperor for life” for “king George of America.”
General George Washington literally got off his horse, removed his officer uniform, surrendered his military commission to the Continental Congress, and returned to his farm as a common American citizen, to plant and harvest, its crops.
Still a farmer, George Washington, now a civilian American, waited until 1789 to be lawfully elected President of the United States of America according to the laws of the land at that time in the 18th Century during which all forms of humanly administered government on the Planet were despotic kingdoms and tyrannical empires.
Thus, General George Washington set the tone, once and for all time, regarding how democratically elected forms of representative republican self-government, ought to be freely established, from henceforth, in accordance with the free principles enshrined in our Declaration of Independence: “That, in order to secure these Rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
Our American Founder, James Madison, by his profound self-evident and sound pronouncements, put the reality this way, as proven by the history of Humanity: Men are not angels and government must be obliged to control itself, hence, the paramount necessity for "AUXILIARY PRECAUTIONS," (American Founder, James Madison, Publius / Federalist Papers, No. 51).
Our American Founder, James Madison also wrote: "An elective despotism is NOT the government we fought for......" (American Founder, James Madison, Publius / Federalist Papers, No. 48).
Thus, America’s Founders, though not historically faultless in their endeavors, had a profoundly realistic understanding of the innate vicissitudes of our flawed "Fallen" Human Nature. Mortal Humans with delegated constitutional powers, even when justly derived “from the consent of the governed,” must be carefully, cautiously, and prudently watched with diligent public oversight as well as scrupulously safeguarded with lawfully designed processes and constitutional procedures for dealing with official corruption and abuses of power, e.g., President Richard M. Nixon was “compelled” to resign from his official duties in the Executive Branch due to illegal criminal malfeasance.
Consequently, in order to preserve, protect, and defend our God-endowed Human Liberty and inalienable Civil Rights:
(1) At the same time that WE THE PEOPLE in the United States of America, have a form of free, representative self-government whose official administrators are periodically and democratically elected for a limited duration by American voters as “public servants;”
(2) WE THE PEOPLE, also have an inalienable God-endowed constitutional Bill of Rights, both of which facts, protecting us, not only, against government-initiated, totalitarian fascism but also, against chaotically emergent or anarchic, “mob rule.”
Thus, our form of representative Self-government is secured, from both ends of the political spectrum, by the free principles embedded and enshrined within its prudently framed and cautiously organized structure, as a democratically elected free republic.
As Lord Acton aptly put it: POWER CORRUPTS, ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY.
Our realistic, prudent, and foresighted American Founders, logically deduced and scientifically recognized, in the 18th Century, by their sober-minded analytical conclusions, that, sinful mortal flawed Human Beings, as proven by the bloody historical experiences during which Humans violently, painfully, criminally, unjustly, and painstakingly travailed and fought each other, in their relentless quest to finally establish, for our mutual benefit and general welfare, the perennial undeniable self-evident Truth: That, ALL our Human rights, freedoms, privileges and immunities of American citizenship, do come and originate, only from ONE ETERNAL SUPREME BEING, our loving and merciful Creator, Almighty God!
America’s Founders also firmly ensured, prudently affirmed, and constitutionally protected the necessary immutable provision: That our inalienable God-endowed Human and Civil Rights, were based, neither upon transient MORTAL AND SELF-CENTERED Human whim or invention, nor upon instrumental ad hoc self-serving contrivances, but, are therefore transcendent, or “super-natural.”
Our inalienable, constitutionally secured Bill of Rights, within which are embedded our privileges and immunities of American citizenship is transcendent: Our Rights come from God, our eternal sovereign immanent Creator.
Consequently, these inalienable God-originated Rights are purposefully and deliberately founded and ordained, with a clear conscience, to securely, equally, and safely prosper, by being administered, justly, lawfully, freely and peaceably, in order to remain in good standing with our Creator Almighty God and in good standing with all Humanity, as safeguarded perpetual “blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.”
Flawed, error-prone, sinful, and corrupt, mortal Humans, who are lawfully and freely, peaceably and justly entrusted, with "societal powers of Human governance," have to be, must be, and SHALL be permanently observed, prudently watched, and cautiously monitored, with continuous public oversight actively engaged in preserving practically exercised Checks-and-Balances, verifiable Division of Powers, sustained Separation of Powers, in foresighted application of direly needed necessary "AUXILIARY PRECAUTIONS," as already ordained and established so prophetically and so carefully by our Founders.
These AUXILIARY PRECAUTIONS are transcendentally designed and eternally discerned, as absolutely necessary for the perpetual security and long-lasting enduring preservation of our God-endowed inalienable constitutional Rights to "life, liberty and pursuit of Happiness.”
These self-evident eternal universally proven Truths, are historically affirmed, as essential pillars and fundamental bulwarks that firmly undergird the very “substantive raison d’être," and "intrinsic material essence" of our God-given Liberty. They are therefore to be irrefutably preserved, indestructibly defended, and protectively safeguarded, as “embedded blessings” within the God-inspired, eternal, free principles of our democratically elected, republican form, of representative Self-government.
“IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION” is a perpetual ever-present constitutional mandate that, We the American people, freely decide to deliberately co-labor, together, in resolute commitment, not only to PRESERVE that which is proven to be already Good for all the American people, such as these free principles of our form of representative self-government: Constitutional due process of law, just powers from the consent of the governed, and the equal protection of all the laws; but to also, at the same time, resolutely decide to co-labor together in order to justly, freely, lawfully and peaceably REDRESS, AMEND, and CORRECT such historical grievances that regrettably continue unto the Present, to even soil our global repute, compromise our domestic tranquility, and sabotage our historical maturity.
May God continue to bless and preserve in perpetuity, the United States of America: “ONE NATION, UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL." ***
