In rejecting God's sovereignty, 'we the people' reject our own - Alan Keyes

[TomSea]

In rejecting God's sovereignty, 'we the people' reject our own
Alan Keyes diagnoses leaders' 'arrogant disdain' for the authority of the Constitution
By Alan Keyes
May 29, 2018

I fear that many people who profess to be staunch supporters of the U.S. Constitution belie that claim in the way they speak and act. In ordaining and establishing the Constitution of the United States, the people of the United States exercised the chief power of their sovereignty over themselves. The provision that declares the Constitution, and all laws and treaties made in pursuance thereof, to be the Supreme Law of the land confirms this fact.

In this respect, the people as a whole (using that word to denote the many and the outstanding few, working in concert) are the governing power, the boss, as it were. The words of the Constitution are their instructions, establishing the goals, parameters, and procedures for their instrument of self-government.

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With this in mind, it's striking how rarely these days the key employees and managers of the U.S. government structure their thinking, and consequent actions, in a way that takes the words of the Constitution as their guide in both selecting and pursuing end, ways, and means for the government's activity. Instead of such logic, pragmatism prevails....

Read more at: http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/keyes/180529

He writes in a long fashion way, but he's probably usually on mark.

[INVAR]

Instead of such logic, pragmatism prevails. They decide what they mean to do. They select the goals and ways and means that might achieve it. And then, pretty much as an afterthought, they consult supposed experts to come up with some way to give their actions some plausible gloss of constitutional respectability.

Pretty much what many of us on this board have been saying with much poo-poohing from the Trump fans who dismiss much, if not all of what Keyes has written here.

At present, all too many of America's governmental officers, elected and otherwise, are influenced by a factional mentality that disdains belief in the sovereignty of God (the same can be said of a good chunk of the populace). But, in terms of the organic law of the United States (which includes the American Declaration of Independence), the authority of God is the source of the sovereignty vested in America's body politic. Disbelieving the sovereignty of God, these elements of what I call the elitist faction also do not believe in the sovereignty of the people. But to keep people who do from getting in their way, they make a pretense of doing so. Their disbelief leads them to disdain the constitutionally expressed will of their boss, the people of the United States, the way many of them disdain the rule of Almighty God.

Sadly, when those purporting to be adherents to the Constitution, the mention of scripture or morality will be met with condescension and declarations that those quoting God are 'self-righteous' and 'holier than thou'.

I'm convinced the majority want to be governed by a man rather than by God.

[roamer_1]

I'm convinced the majority want to be governed by a man rather than by God.

Or by a lesser god. The glaring error in our establishment is that our founders did not see fit to specifically name the God from whom our rights derive. I have long seen that as its eventual undoing.

[jmyrlefuller]

Or by a lesser god. The glaring error in our establishment is that our founders did not see fit to specifically name the God from whom our rights derive. I have long seen that as its eventual undoing.

God fouls the plans of nations, as the Psalms note repeatedly. Remember that.

Any nation that claims to follow God invariably is corrupted within a few generations. It does not matter what God that is. Rome flipped to Christianity in the fourth century, and 100 years later, it fell to heathens. Israel, God's chosen people, fell away, having been cursed with corrupt rulers from their first king Saul, and were driven into exile. The British Empire claimed its own church, persecuting other Christian sects.

No man can live by the standards of God on Earth. Nor do most even want to do so, as lust for sinful pleasure is far more appealing.

[Oceander]