The Constitution was
created by the Founding Fathers. Why? Because they were looking for liberty.
Liberty, not Democracy. The people who started the French Revolution were
looking for Democracy. They wanted power. The Founding Fathers wanted freedom.
They knew what human nature is and they came up with this system of checks and
balances to combat it.
People want power. People
like power. There is something satisfying about showing another person that “I’m
better than you are.” We like to be the person in charge, the top dog, all
those things. But people can’t be trusted with power. Once we have some, we
want more.
The Constitution is not a
charter, granting us the rights mentioned inside. It protects these rights, but
it does not grant them. These rights are part of our birthright. They cannot be
changed, modified, or removed by anyone. This is very important! The
Constitution is based on old British Common Law, which in turn is based on the
two fundamental principles: Do all you have agreed to do, and Do not encroach on
other persons or their property. All major religions and philosophies support
those two principles.
Humans have a sense of
right and wrong. Children know when something is fair: they know that it is not
right to take all the toys, or more of the toys, instead of sharing them
equally. This is not something that we learn from books or movies, it is part of
us. We are born with it.
We have moved into a law
system where what is right and wrong is based on political law. Political law
is the law that the current government has laid down. With this system, what is
right or wrong can change every time the government changes hands. You cannot
predict what is right or wrong under political law, because it is always
changing. There is no stability. A country cannot do well under political law because
the law is different with each new government.
Decisions are no longer
made according to whether they are right or wrong, but they are made according
to the whim of the people. Since this whim changes all the time, so do the
laws. This makes it very much like trying to play a game of baseball while the
audience is voting on changing the rules every few minutes. It is very
difficult to know what to invest in when the rules are changing so often. Under the Constitution, politicians cannot change the law whenever they want. It is based on the two fundamental principles and not on the whims of the people.
This is why the Constitution is important.
-Bell
