227 Years Ago

[Bert Man]

227 years ago today on 17 September , 1787, thanks to the courage, dedication, and foresightedness of our Founding Fathers, the greatest social contract in the history of the human race was enacted. The United States Constitution is the bedrock of our liberty and a beacon of freedom around the world. May it forever endure.

 

[colt_saa]

Those were some pretty smart old guys.

I believe that is the GREATEST DOCUMENT ever to be written

Just look at those three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before or since. Tall words proudly saying WE THE PEOPLE.

This document which defines and shapes our Great Nation was not written for the Government, it was written for The People. This is something our Politicians have forgotten

'We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution.'

Think for a moment about current politicians and the laws they pass, Obamacare for example took over 2,000 pages. So how did our Founding Fathers define the Nation in a way that has stood the test of time for more than 2 centuries in just 6 pages of hand written text? That
included the Bill of Rights and all 39 signatures.

Perhaps our current politicians need to go back to writing legislation like the Founding Fathers did.

 

[wbraswell]

By golly, I think it's working.

 

[DR505]

Lets hope it lasts several more centuries.

 

[shouldazagged]

Despite the people crying to heaven that the country is going to hell, that civilization is on the verge of total collapse, and that people who don't agree with them are no damn good, the banner yet waves. It's still a great country that has been good to me and of which I'm proud, even when I don't agree with some things it has done.

Underlying all of that is the Constitution and the voice of the people. It's really a question of preserving the former by exercising the latter.

Call me a Pollyanna or a sentimental old fool, but don't expect to change that belief.

 

[Old TexMex]

Other nations have constitutions, but those nations seem to lack a certain Spirit that this country has.

A man by the name of Emmet Fox wrote about how the United States of America came to have that Spirit, in a book titled Alter Your Life (+- 1910) there's a chapter "the Historical Destiny of the United States".

Very much worth reading.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Just Thank the Good Lord for those wise old men that wrote this so long ago

 

[Mydogmax]

Not perfect but it's way ahead of what anybody else thinks is in first place.

 

[the ringo kid]

Well said all of ye. The only thing else that comes close IMO--is the Magna Carta.