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We need De Jure Governors!

We need De Jure Governors!

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 What does it mean… to constitute?When we make something we do so using things…and with a specific intent.Take a knife. It is made from metal…Shaped into certain dimensions… weight… and balance…For one mission — to cut.The knife is not a cup. It cannot hold liquid. It is not a bowling ball. It is not a flowerpot.Nothing in the design, the clauses, or the maker’s instructions…Allows the knife to serve any purpose other than what was intended.So — let’s agree:To constitute means… to create with purpose.If you write a love poem for a friend…You choose the paper… the pen…You select words to send a particular message…And you shape the tone to match your intent.The poem is not a legal brief.It is not a horror story.By its very constitution — like the knife —It has boundaries that keep it true to its nature.The Founders of America understood this.When they framed the US Constitution…They were not drafting an abstract idea.They were building something very specific…A structure made of words and principles…Designed to form and bind a government.And this Constitution —Like the knife, like the poem —Cannot, by deception, be turned into anything else.This famous document is not a knife.It is not a bowling ball.It is not a love poem.The Constitution creates… and controls… the United States Government.We must be firm about this:The Constitution is not the source of our freedom.Even the Bill of Rights — another creation —Was written with a clear and limited purpose:To prohibit the government from doing what it has no authority to do.Patrick Henry said it plainly:“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people…It is an instrument for the people to restrain the government.”But to understand how to constitute anything — especially freedom —We must first understand what that freedom is.John Locke described liberty as:“To be free from restraint and violence from others…Which cannot be where there is no law.”Freedom is not chaos.It is the natural condition of man…Bound only by the equal rights of his neighbor…And governed by natural law.The Constitution was built to preserve that condition.A carefully measured frame…Designed for justice… and for nothing more.Freedom is the open meadow…Without a fence… master… or hand to pull us back.It is the birthright of every man and woman.It does not come from parchment…Or from the promises of politicians.Robert Heinlein put it simply:“In the absence of order, there is chaos. In the absence of freedom, there is tyranny.”Freedom is the natural condition into which we are born.It can be limited only by the equal rights of another.The Founders understood this.They knew government is not the giver of liberty…It is, at best… its guardian.That is why they wrote the Constitution with boundaries —Not to control the people…But to control the power that governs them.Chief Justice John Marshall affirmed in Marbury v. Madison:“The powers of the legislature are defined and limited;and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten,the Constitution is written.”James Madison, in Federalist No. 45, reminded us:“The powers delegated… to the federal government are few and defined.Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite.”Freedom thrives only when those limits are honored.When the meadow is kept open…And the fence is built to keep the government in —Not to keep the people out.Even a carefully built frame…Can be broken…If the limits are ignored… or erased.This was the great debate over the Bill of Rights.Thomas Jefferson argued in 1787…That a Bill of Rights would guard against abuse:“A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to againstevery government on earth…and what no just government should refuse.”But Alexander Hamilton, in Federalist No. 84, warned of a danger:That by listing some rights,We might suggest all others were surrendered.The Ninth Amendment resolved this:“The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights…shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.”Yet over time…Two dangerous phrases have crept into our language:“Constitutional rights.”And “civil rights.”They sound harmless.But they imply that rights come from government…And what government gives… government can take away.Consider this:Have you ever wondered how Congress—meant to be chained down by a short list of powers—ended up ruling almost every corner of your life?It wasn’t by accident. It was by twisting a few words in the Constitution into weapons of control.First, the Commerce Clause. Written to regulate trade across state lines, it was stretched into a blank check—allowing Washington to dictate everything from farming wheat in your backyard to the rules of your workplace.Second, the General Welfare Clause. Intended as a boundary to keep spending for the common ...
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