Sep 17, 2011
Since 2004, "Constitution Day" is a federal observance in which we are encouraged to count our "Blessings of Liberty." But those who are out of work, struggling to pay their mortgages, pay their taxes, keep food on the table and gasoline in their car may well be asking: "What blessings? Where have the jobs gone? When will prosperity return?"
Jobs are scarce because American factories and businesses are being forced to function under overwhelming, impractical environmental and other regulations. Our Constitution is meant to be the supreme law of the land. It is not law directed at regulating and limiting the activities of the people and their businesses, but rather to limiting the government. All three branches on both the federal and state levels of government have abandoned a decent respect for the principles of limited government spelled out in Article 1, Section 8 of our U.S. Constitution.
The supremacy of our U.S. Constitution is being replaced by the U.N. Charter. These two documents could not be more diametrically opposed and irreconcilable. The U.S. Constitution is built upon the premise that the people are endowed by their Creator with unalienable rights and that the sole purpose of government is to protect those rights. Based on this premise, America flourished. The U.N. Charter assumes the role of God by granting rights, which are then subject to becoming revocable privileges. The United Nations does not recognize any limitations to its authority to legislate on any and all matters.
One example is the U.N. spawned Agenda 21. Its domineering, global, environmental agenda is being implemented through an end-run around both our U.S. Constitution and our Congress.
By the U. N. executing agreements with state, county and municipal governments across America, treaties are being made in direct violation of Article 1, Section 10 of our Constitution. "No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation ..."
Agenda 21 is being foisted piecemeal on state and local levels through programs such as: "Smart Growth Initiatives," "Resilient Cities," "Regional Visioning Projects," "STAR Sustainable Communities," "Green Jobs" and "Green Building Codes."
According to renowned environmental activist attorney Daniel Sitarz, "Agenda 21 proposes an array of actions which are intended to be implemented by every person on earth ... It calls for specific changes in the activities of all people.
Effective execution of Agenda 21 will require a profound reorientation of all human society, unlike anything the world has ever experienced -- a major shift in the priorities of both governments and individuals and an unprecedented redeployment of human and financial resources. This shift will demand that a concern for the environmental consequences of every human action be integrated into individual and collective decision-making at every level."
Instead of protecting our environment, it actually smothers economic prosperity, negates property rights, undermines liberty and constitutional government, subverts local control and spoils the local environment.
So how is the U.N. getting away with usurping our American sovereignty, the rights of the American people, the authority of our Congress, and our ability to prosper?
The prophet Hosea lamented, "My people perish from a lack of knowledge." As a nation, we have forgotten who we are as defined by our Constitution. We cannot insist our legislators obey and defend the supreme law of the land if we the people do not know it ourselves.
When we regain the knowledge of our precious constitutional heritage and reassert those principles of liberty, prosperity will return.
A good start would be to extricate ourselves from the tentacles of the anti-American, sovereignty-destroying United Nations.
Peter F. Boyce
U.S. Constitution instructor
Millville
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