You Know It is the Word of God

Woodrow Wilson:

“When you have read the Bible, you know it is the word of God, because it is the key to your heart, your own happiness, and your own duty.”

What Happens When The Constitution Does Not Mean What It Says?

Thomas Sowell

Who has the power to define what a word means? He who has the power decides the meaning of words. This is what is happening in our court system today. Too many judges are expanding or altering the meaning of words and phrases in our laws and our Constitution. When a judge does this, he is assuming the power to legislate law which is the responsibility of Congress. The duty of judges is to interpret the words of the law and Constitution based on the grammatical-historical meaning of the words when they were first used in the particular document. Economist Thomas Sowell writes on this topic:

“It was the Progressives of a hundred years ago who began saying that the Constitution needed to be subordinated to whatever they chose to call ‘the needs of the times.’ Nor were they content to say that the Constitution needed more Amendments, for that would have meant that the much disdained masses would have something to say about whether, or what kind, of Amendments were needed. The agenda then, as now, has been for our betters to decide among themselves which Constitutional safeguards against arbitrary government power should be disregarded, in the name of meeting ‘the needs of the times’ — as they choose to define those needs. The first open attack on the Constitution by a President of the United States was made by our only president with a Ph.D., Woodrow Wilson. Virtually all the arguments as to why judges should not take the Constitution as meaning what its words plainly say, but ‘interpret’ it to mean whatever it ought to mean, in order to meet ‘the needs of the times,’ were made by Woodrow Wilson. It is no coincidence that those who imagine themselves so much wiser and nobler than the rest of us should be in the forefront of those who seek to erode Constitutional restrictions on the arbitrary powers of government. How can our betters impose their superior wisdom and virtue on us, when the Constitution gets in the way at every turn, with all its provisions to safeguard a system based on a self-governing people? To get their way, the elites must erode or dismantle the Constitution, bit by bit, in one way or another. What that means is that they must dismantle America.”

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