Getting Back To The Constitution

I have talked many times about getting back to the Constitution. I have heard many say that we don’t really want to get back to the Constitution; it would be too hard and we would lose many of the things that we have gotten used to. In some ways this is true, we could lose many of the things that we have gotten used to having around. I’m not good at getting my point across when in a discussion so I write. I do believe we need to get back to the Constitution and yes it will be a painful transition, but only for a short period of time compared to the pain we could be looking at.

Getting back to the Constitution will not be an overnight evolution, it will take time and it will take planning. The country would be thrown into complete and utter chaos. Just name a department within the Federal Government and it would more then likely be abolished on the spot. Our military would be in disarray since there is only one branch that is authorized by the Constitution. The FBI and CIA would become members of the bread lines along with anyone that is being fed or supported by a Federal Program, and all of our National Parks would become no mans land since they aren’t really owned by the States anymore and the Federal Government is not to own any lands that are not “needful”. Anarchists would be dancing in the streets and progressives would be crying in their beer, sorry, Champaign. The libertarians, moderate liberals, democrats, republicans and conservatives would be scratching their heads wondering what had just happened. With all that being said I still say, we need to get back to the Constitution.

Getting back to the Constitution means getting back to a smaller Federal Government; a Federal Government that works within the confines of the Constitution for the People and for the States. It means we would have to have an Article V Convention to repeal the 17^th Amendment putting the power back in the hands of the States and reinstituting the checks and balances in Congress that the Constitution put in place. The Convention would also have to propose Amendments that would bring the Constitution up to date with the way things have changed in the United States since the writing of the Constitution; some agencies are now needed so they need to be added correctly, constitutionally. It would mean a shifting of programs from the Federal Government to the States, or at least to the States that felt they should have them as is their right. The entire tax system would have to change to where only the States collected taxes from the citizens of their respective State and the States then paid the Federal Government an equal apportionment depending on population. It would mean that the individual States would have to balance their own budgets and determine which programs they wanted to support and which ones they didn’t want to support. It would mean individuals would have to take personal responsibility for themselves and become active at all levels, even on small levels, of the Government so they would be heard. There are many programs that in comparison to our Country are relatively new that used to be taken care of by our religious establishments and our communities. These programs should once again be taken care of by them.

Will getting back to the Constitution be easy? No. I have been fortunate enough to only live through prosperous times in our Nation. The times we are heading for, in my humble opinion, will be anything but prosperous and they will lead to changes in our country that no one will have ever dreamed could happen. All we have to do is look at history and see what has happened to other forms of Government that were allowed to run the lives of the citizens to see where we are headed. That is not the American way. If there is a true American out there anymore that is not the way they will want to live.

Steve Avery

1/16/2011