Our Constitution in Peril

By Ammoland

By John Farnam

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “Whenever you hear people talking about ‘a living Constitution,’ invariably they are in the process of slowly killing it by ‘interpreting’ out of existence its restrictions on government.” ~ Thomas Sowell

Our Constitution provides for the destruction of each of its elements, and indeed the entirety of itself. The process of destruction is “amendment.”

Governments have “powers.” Individual citizens have “rights.” Our Constitution currently imposes limits on powers of government, as well as, via the Bill of Rights, enumerates rights of citizens.

Most Americans believe our Bill of Rights is the document that guarantees our individual rights and freedoms as citizens. As we see from recent events, such “guarantees” are mostly delusional!

James Madison was the author of the Bill of Rights, and was the force that aggressively drove it through the First Congress of the United States. He developed a list of individual rights after studying history and government. He was familiar with tools and methods used by tyrannies and tyrants to destroy individual liberty.

In fact, those who at the time opposed the Bill of Rights being added to the Constitution, did so on the basis of …read more

Source:: AmmoLand