The Right Rev Rowland

Admin Note: This article originally published on the Nolan Chart website back in March of 2009. It has been slightly edited and re-posted here.

The Constitution of the United States guarantees protection for our individual rights, while at the same time establishing due process for a civil society to govern those rights.

As a nation, we have held the rights of the individual to be sacred above all other governments in history. While our track record is not flawless, we have come closer to the perfect form of government for mankind than any other experiment in history.

The Revolutionary War was sparked by a repeated violation of what the colonies viewed as their inherent rights. They determined that no form of government had the right to take those rights without showing justification that made moral and legal sense.

How have we survived for over 200 years as a nation that preserves individual liberty, only to see the last few decades erode our freedoms more than the last two centuries?

Because our government has forgotten where our rights come from. The governing system of the United States has been operating on autopilot for so long, it has lost touch with where the Constitution was birthed. Many even subscribe to the notion of a ‘living’ document that will morph into whatever the current poly-sci fad of the day is.

The Constitution was written to express what the authors held to be true even before it was writtten: That God, the Creator of Mankind, had given His creation rights that could never be removed or usurped by any governing system. The Government didn’t create our rights, and cannot erase them.

Human rights can be suppressed by governments, or attacked by individuals, but they do not cease to exist. Just because I am blocked from my rights by a thug, doesn’t mean they aren’t still my rights, and I am within my rights to fight for what is mine.

The Constitution put into practical formulae for governance what the Founders had already put forth as truth in the Declaration of Independence: That our rights are inalienable, because they come from our Maker, and that no individual or government could simply remove them without just cause.

The more we reject the notion of a Creator, the further removed we are from the immutability of our rights. The more we look to Government as the source of our rights, the more freely Government suppresses our liberty.

Without God, we are at the mercy of man-made institutions. The more these institutions become full of their own wisdom, the more the individual suffers. We have a full-scale attack in our nation against the concept of God, and promoting the removal of any acknowledgement of God from the public square.

So, when the idea of God is completely gone, what is left of my rights? The Government will say they hold the keys to my liberty, as the ‘defenders’ of the Constitution. What we need to maintain is the truth that my rights are still my rights, with or without government, with or without a Constitution, because they came from God and not man.

So, let me ask you to ponder this question….. Does the current generation even realize what has been stolen from them, or where their individual rights come from?

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