Just as I
wrote in my last article about President-Elect Trump in which I pointed out the
need to adjust our thinking about the office of the President and learn to think
of ourselves as consumers of government services buying them from a company
headed by a CEO called “President of the United States”---- we need to start
thinking of ourselves as inheritors of America and its traditions.
There is
an understandable tendency to claw back to the roots of the Republic to try to
find our way forward. Necessary as it is to do all this historical
research so that we have a clear view of the past as we move forward, it can get
in our way if we focus too much on what happened then and not enough on what can
and should happen now.
We have
important, basic, guiding precepts: self-governance, equality,
private property rights, self-respect, brotherhood, duty to God and country,
responsibility for ourselves and for the welfare of others, the supreme value
and uniqueness of each living man and woman.
These are
our inheritance, both from our Judeo-Christian history and from our Founding
Fathers.
We are
not taught to value our rights as possessions, but in Law and in fact, our
rights are our most valuable and sacred possessions without which we can have
and can aspire to no others. This is why the Preamble to the
Constitution comes first and foremost and is in fact the most valuable part of
the contract established between the British King and his subjects and the
American People.
The
Preamble establishes our true National Trust.