When America began its descent ~ By Henry Lamb

Every week, Henry somehow comes up with these columns that tell us how the U.S. government is assuming more power than the Constitution allows for. And, they always leave me asking questions, such as, "How do we not just stop this from happening, but how do WE get back in control of the government?" Or, "How do we take back the public schools that indoctrinate our kids and teach them that parents and tea parties are wrong, and government and Barack Obama is good?" And, "How do we find good candidates for national offices that don't end up being corrupted by Beltway politics?"  Just sayin'...

How does a nation of people thirsting for freedom so fervently that they were willing to fight the king of England to win it, move to a nation of people that allow its government to impose far more onerous taxes and living restrictions than the king of England ever did? Not only does this nation now allow its government to impose these unauthorized powers, many people celebrate the new "sustainable" (read: government-managed) society.

The moment the United States government gained and began to exercise control over its people is the moment the United States began its descent. The nation is no longer the sum total of the pursuit of happiness of its individuals, but is becoming the managed product of the current power brokers.

By Henry Lamb

Posted: May 08, 2010 ~ 1:00 am Eastern

© 2010

The government of the United States of America exists for one purpose, according to the Declaration of Independence: to secure the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, endowed to every individual by their Creator. The people who adopted this profound declaration knew only too well the heavy weight of government oppression. In addition to declaring the purpose of the government they were creating, they wrote and adopted another document: the Constitution of the United States of America.

The Declaration of Independence declares the purpose of government; the Constitution declares the source and limit of power entrusted to the new government by its creators.

From the outset, there have been people who disagreed with the underlying philosophy on which the Declaration and Constitution were constructed, but they were distinctly in the minority for the first century or so. In the last half-century, this paradigm – and the purpose of government – has been shifting.

The purpose of government is no longer to "secure the unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" for every individual. The purpose of government today is to dictate to every individual what he may or may not do, and to impose a fee for the privilege of doing it.

The people who created the United States wanted their government to defend them from invading enemies who might inflict bodily harm and steal their property. They wanted a system of law that dealt justice equally to all who would dare harm or damage their neighbors. They wanted a system of standard weights and measures and money to facilitate free and fair trade among the people.

The people who created the United States did not want their government involved in their personal affairs. In fact, the Constitution says quite explicitly that no government official may enter the private property of an individual without a warrant signed by a judge, after a sworn affidavit of probable cause of a crime.

No one remembers the first time the federal government ignored this limitation of power and sent an official into private property without a warrant for whatever purpose seemed justified at the moment. Now, no one questions the Environmental Protection Agency official who can show up on your property to declare that the ditch you are digging is polluting the waters of the United States.

Most employees of the Department of Agriculture – and too many in Congress – believe that government has every right to send its agents onto a private farm to count the number of livestock animals, to retrieve all sorts of information about the source age, and movements of these animals and to require the owner to report his activities to the government on a regular basis.

The Constitution was not amended; how did the government gain all this new, unspecified power?

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