by First Liberty Institute • 3 minutes
Every day, the radical Left publishes something new attacking our country. They don’t just want to crush judicial independence and the rule of law via a Supreme Court Coup. They want to destroy the Constitution altogether.
According to Jennifer Szalai at The New York Times, the U.S. Constitution is “dangerous.” She wrote a piece recently claiming that “one of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document.”
The Constitution is the world’s longest surviving written charter of government. More than two centuries after its ratification, the Constitution continues to serve as both a guide and a protector of U.S. citizens, our elected officials and our representative form of government. Many countries and oppressed people that yearn for freedom have used the Constitution as the foundation and inspiration for their systems of government.
Without documents like the Constitution, we would not have the freedoms we cherish today. It remains one of the last—if not THE last—safeguard of our God-given freedoms as Americans—including our right to live out our faith, the first one listed in the First Amendment.
But to Szalai and many on the far Left, the Constitution is “antidemocratic” and “dysfunctional.” They despise some of most important articles that have made our system of government the envy of the world, including the Electoral College (Article I), the structure of the U.S. Senate (Article II) and the process of selecting federal judges (Article III). She argues that “worship” of the Constitution has negative “consequences,” going so far as to say that “the document that’s supposed to be a bulwark against authoritarianism can end up fostering the widespread cynicism that helps authoritarianism grow.”
“Who thinks the Constitution is ‘dangerous’? Those whose power it limits,” explains Laura Hollis in American Greatness. “The First Amendment—guaranteeing freedom of speech, of the press, of religion, of peaceable assembly, and the right to petition the government—is a threat to them.”
“Here’s the thing: The Constitution does not just protect against human malevolence, of which there is plenty,” Hollis adds. “It also protects against human stupidity, of which there is much more…Our Constitution is not dangerous. But the people who are threatened by it—all of them: politicians, academics, journalists, activists—are.”
The radical Left wants to tear down the Constitution. They want to rewrite, ignore and even discard our country’s founding document. They say a document written in 1787 can’t possibly be applicable today. But the beauty of the Constitution lies precisely in its foresight. The principles the Founders outlined were timeless principles that continue to guide our nation to safety, liberty and prosperity.
We’re not a perfect nation. Still, we should cherish and value our founding documents. These foundations have helped our country flourish for more than 250 years. Without them, we likely would not be able to live in liberty as we do today.
We should be tremendously grateful for the Constitution. As President Calvin Coolidge once said: “To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.”
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