A 5-MINUTE CLASS ON OUR GREAT CONSTITUTIONAL REPUBLIC

                                                I had the great pleasure of  being Justice Scalia’s escort for events twice in my life and each time I realized just how absolutely stupid I was and knew rapidly to shut up and listen to his Constitutional wisdom.  Each time I met with him I vowed to read more, investigate more, and his words and knowledge translated on to Justice Thomas.  Legally, and as an American, their words and interpretations are as precise for me as a Christian and the Scripture.  You simply can’t take that away from me.

                                                Since the vast majority of Americans have been dumbed down by the progressive liberal education agenda, don’t or can’t read (don’t forget 20-25% of high school graduates and young adults are functionally illiterate), and have their faces buried in trending social media vomit.  I just want to take 5 minutes of your time to explain something critical that the Democratic Socialists and progressive smooth-brains want to destroy—our Constitution.

                                                All of these screeching protestors believe that the Bill of Rights is what sets them apart to do whatever they want at the cost of those of us who are law-abiding citizens.  You have to realize that every Banana Republic in the world has their version of a Bill of Rights.  Every totalitarian “presidente for life” has a Bill of Rights.  The USSR had a Bill of Rights and it was written much better than our own.  We guarantee freedom of the press and freedom of speech—okay.  The former USSR guaranteed freedom of speech, freedom of the press, street demonstrations, protests, and anyone who is caught trying to suppress the criticism of the government are held to a strict account.  Just words on paper.

                                                This is what the great Framers of our great nation would have referred to as a “parchment guarantee.”  Why?  Because the REAL Constitution of the USSR is hollow.  When I think of the word Constitution in every context, I think the word “structure.”  Our Framers in their debate in 1787 didn’t talk about a Bill of Rights, they debated lawful, solid structure.  Our Bill of Rights was an after-thought. 

                                                The Constitution of the USSR did not establish de-centralization of power in one person or in one party.  When that happens, then the Bill of Rights in the case of the USSR is just a piece of paper.  What makes America distinctive, and what the rabid left wants to destroy, is the structure and foundation of our nation.  One big part is the independent judiciary NOT filled with activist judges, but judges who interpret the Constitution without an agenda.  Ah, but there’s more.  There are VERY few countries in the world that have a bicameral legislature.  Sure, England has the House of Lords but they don’t really wheel power in the politics du jour.  All they can do is make the House of Commons pass a law a second time.  Italy and France’s senate is honorific.  This makes us different.

                                                We have two distinct and separate bodies in the legislative or law-making branch that are equally powerful.  That is what makes politics so political and compelling.  To get the same legal language through two separate bodies of governance, each elected by the people in a different manner—an entire different dimension than any other country in the world. 

                                                Very few countries in the world have a separately elected Chief Executive.  No where in Europe or Western-thinking civiliation do they understand separation of powers, nor do they understand the independence of the Judiciary.  Europeans don’t even attempt to divide the powers.  In all of the parliamentary countries, the Chief Executive is a creature of the Legislature where there is never a disagreement between the Legislature and the Prime Minister.  If there is a disagreement, they just kick them out…much like the constant and failed barrage of impeachment proceedings by the liberal left.

                                                I hear and read Americans and elected officials everyday speak of how dysfunctional our government is and even attack the Constitution because of disagreements—and our Framers would have screamed, “YES!  That’s exactly the way we set it up.”  The entire goal was “power controlling and contradicting power.” 

                                                The main “ill” that beset us as Hamilton wrote in the Federalist papers is that the separate Senate seems “inconvenient,” “but inasmuch as the main ill that besets us is an excess of legislation that won’t be so bad.”  THIS 1787…Hamilton had no clue of what “excess of legislation” even was! 

                                                Until we properly educate our progeny, as the Constitution directed in the preamble, is taught for all of us to appreciate and love this concept of separation of powers, which often times means loving the political gridlock.  This gridlock is what the Framers believed to be the main protection of minorities—the MAIN protection.  For example, if a bill is passed that really comes down hard on any minority group that is terribly unfair, it doesn’t take much to crush it in our Constitutional framework of governance.  Americans should respect and appreciate that gridlock as it exists to ensure good legislation.