The Constitution Or A King?
By Bill Lussenheide
Candidate US Congress CA-45
http://www.FaithFamilyFreedoms.blogspot.com

The founding of this country was no accident, and much deliberate thought was put into its creation.  The vision was that we would be a nation that was ruled by law, embodied into what we call "The Constitution", and to not be ruled by the passing whims of a King or any other singular leader.  Many would want to deny this, but the concepts of Judeo/Christianity were cornerstones to the foundations of this country and to its Constitution.  The love of law, and not the passing whims of men, has now become a forgotten concept in our current culture.

A good friend of mine recently enlightened me about the writings of Samuel Rutherford. Rutherford's political book Lex, Rex (meaning "the law [and] the king" or "the law [is] king") presented a theory of limited government and constitutionalism. He based his arguments on the Bible, and it supported the concept of the rule by law rather than that of men.  According to Wikipedia, Rutherford's writings were great influences on Thomas Hobbes, and John Locke.  Both of these men were later influential on America's founding fathers in the creation of a system of social contract and the idea of limited government through the vehicle of "separation of powers".

Here is an exercise that is worth pondering. If we don't operate under a system where "the law is king" what would we automatically default to?  Indeed it would be back to "the King is law".

Is it imaginable, that if our dear country was not ruled by an undying loyalty to its Constitution, that we would devolve to being  ruled by a dictator, a king, emperor or some other form of tyranny?  It is not a far out idea, for in examining history this has happened over and over again! It happened in ancient Israel, and it has happened in more modern times in places like Nazi Germany.  Germany, an educated, sophisticated industrial power found itself embracing a dictator!   Are we any different?  If we become dependent on government and look to it to provide all of our needs, to become a "nanny state" and to "take care of us" aren't we indeed vulnerable to the concept of embracing a dictator?

I tell you with all gravity and sternness, that such an eventuality frightens me.  Have we as a people grown tired and weary in regards to paying the price of Liberty?  If we have, let us repent of such, and remember the providential concepts of the gift of our precious Constitution. Let us always treasure it and demand its continuous application in all of our government and in all of our law.

As your Congressman, I will uphold my allegiance and duty to that very Constitution.