December 8, 2019
Who Are the American People?
By Greg Roller
Today, we hear our representatives (it seems increasingly less clear just whom they represent) frequently invoking the phrase "the American people." I ask, who are these American people whom politicians so flippantly feign to speak for?
The preamble to our Constitution states: "We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and to secure the blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity ..."
The implementation of a more perfect union is to be carried out by "We the People." President Kennedy said in his inaugural address that it was by his fellow citizens, far more than him, that the final success or failure of our freedoms would be decided. He said the graves of young Americans around the globe bore testimony to their answering the call to service in their generation. Will we continue to answer the call that so many have died in answering, or will we despise their sacrifices on the altars of ease and pleasure?
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