God’s Natural Law, “Luck,” and Liberty.
There was a graphic representation of a horseshoe posted on Facebook yesterday. On the left end of the upside-down “U” that a horseshoe resembles was written “Communism.” Then on a political/ideological worldview continuum various “Isms” were labeled along the horseshoe with the word “Center” labeled at the top of the upside-down “U” looking shoe with the words “Constitutional Republic” following towards the downward curving right side of the shoe.
The complete sequence reads as follows from the left to the “Center” and then down the right side of the shoe: “Communism;” “Fascism and Socialism;” “Social Democracy;” “Democracy;” “Center;” “Constitutional Republic;” “Objectivism;” “Libertarianism;” “Anarchism;” "Anarcho-Tyranny.” The horseshoe graphic is misleading in so much as it is an oversimplification and worse, faulty in its inclusion of “Constitutional Republic.”
America’s constitutional republic does not simply represent an incremental shift on the continuum of political/ideological worldviews—it is fundamentally different.
The American experiment in government of the people which first and foremost recognizes certain truths as self-evident, among these truths that all men are CREATED equal and endowed by their CREATOR, the Lord Jesus Christ of the Bible (not to be confused with other 'Jesus' constructs of a multitude of cults) with certain unalienable rights is unique in all human history. It cannot rightly be placed upon the continuum of mankind’s efforts at government for it stands alone as a Christian—yes I wrote “Christian”—experiment in government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
The American experiment in government of the people alone maintains in its assertion within the Declaration of Independence “That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed,…”—that those in positions of political authority derive their ‘just Powers’ from the Consent of ‘We the People.’
“Because the elitist faction aims to overthrow constitutional government of, by and for the people, they work to obscure or tacitly deny…” the fact that our government’s design forces “…constitutional issues down a path that may ultimately lead to an electoral scrutiny by the people, in whose voice and name the Constitution is written.” (Dr. Alan Keyes. ‘Supreme Judge Or Supreme Court?’ WND.COM, 3/28/2013.)
“They want Americans to accept the notion that those who happen to wield the power of government at any given moment may decide, amongst themselves and without recourse to the people, what is constitutional and what is not. If and when the American people foolishly acquiesce in this oligarchic lie, they will thereby surrender their status as a free people. (Keyes.)
“…we learn the source and nature of these unenumerated rights from another “fundamental law” of the United States – the Declaration of Independence, which ascribes them to the Creator’s endowment of all humanity. Most self-evident among them are the rights of the God-endowed natural family “rooted in obligations antecedent to any and all humanly instituted law or government.” From this endowment the people of the United States derive the sovereign authority to establish and maintain their self-government. Unless they are willing to subvert their own sovereignty, they are obliged, in their actions and decisions, to respect the source of authority that validates it.
In the weeks to come, the U.S. Supreme Court may decide to promote specious rights intended to supplant “the laws of nature and of nature’s God” invoked in the Declaration of Independence. They may decide, in contravention of the Ninth Amendment, to deny and disparage the natural rights of the God endowed family. It will then be for us, the people, to decide how to respond to their assault on the very root and source of our claim to decent liberty. If we respect the logic that reasonably, morally and constitutionally justifies what their decision seeks to destroy, we will be able confidently to appeal, as America’s founders did in the Declaration, “to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions.” Then, whatever we face, we will have the courage to defend the institution that God made to be the living archetype of all the rest of our belongings.” (Keyes.)
America’s constitutional republic does not in fact simply exist upon a continuum of Mankind’s myriad political/philosophical ideologies, but stands separate as a declaration within ‘the Course of human Events’ as stated in the defining document of our independence as a nation, the Declaration of Independence: "When in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the Separation.”—a declaration that God’s natural law entitles human beings the right to assume separate and equal station among the powers of the Earth should it become necessary for one group of people to dissolve the political bands that have connected them with another group of people.
Consider the words "...to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them..." carefully. The American experiment in government of the people is founded upon God given rights and cannot be separated in its justifications for its own undertaking—the establishment of the United States of America--inscribed within the Declaration of Independence, from its proclamation of recognition and reverence of Nature's God, the Creator, the Lord Jesus Christ of the Bible. The American experiment in government of the people is fundamentally Christian or it is nothing at all.
No, the horseshoe mnemonic intended to illustrate political/ideological worldviews on a continuum would diminish the American experiment in government of the people unto the level of being simply a transitional position on a continuum of more or less Conservative as opposed to more or less Liberal-socialist ideological postures wherein the American experiment has simply been, up to this point in history, a matter of good fortune to have balanced out those competing worldviews in its achieving of its exceptional accomplishments. The horseshoe mnemonic in fact asserts that America’s greatness has been nothing more than dumb luck. (How funny: the horseshoe…, dumb luck…, but I digress.)
There’s no such thing as luck; God is in control of history past, and history—from His position as the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End—future; which is why history is sometimes referred to with levity as “His Story.”
The American experiment in government of the people has been blessed by God and America has been successful in her endeavors to the degree to which her laws have been congruent with the Truth in God's Word. To the degree that America has deviated from God’s instruction in His Word, as in the acceptance of slavery, the permitting of abortion, the toleration of the sin of homosexuality, etc..., America has reaped what she has erroneously sown.
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