Constitution

The way I see it, the Founders constructed the Constitution of the United States as a means of putting a leash on government, and a hedge of protection around the individual liberties that are given to us by God. And I think I am not alone in this view. But a foundational element for the success of this arrangement was left unspoken, unwritten in any formal treatise regarding the fledgling government they were about to birth: just as the powers of government are tethered to a stake driven into the bedrock of the Constitution, so must the heart of the individual be tethered to God. If the people desire self-rule, they must endeavor to be the gate keepers of their own heart and to constrain the darkness that dwells therein. There is no action taken, no word spoken, that is not conceived first in the heart.

As Government has eliminated God from the public discourse, and dotingly shielded students from the dangers associated with even a cursory assent to the existence of God, it has cleverly created the need to expand its own powers. A government such as ours that develops a lust for power must necessarily push the citizenry toward an unfettered and equally lusty heart that cherishes and covets a selfish, unrestrained freedom over and above the nebulous energy force that maintains order in the human world: principle.