Alexander's
Essay – September 17, 2009
'A Republic, if you can keep it...'
"We the People of the United
States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish
Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the
common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure
the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,
do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United
States of America. ... Done ... the seventeenth day of
September, in the year of our LORD one thousand seven
hundred and eighty seven." --George Washington and
the Signers
Fellow Patriots,
Today, September 17th, 2009, marks the
222nd anniversary of the signing of our Constitution at
the Philadelphia (Constitution) Convention in 1787.
What better day than this to launch
the first phase of the "Essential Liberty Project,"
the most important initiative ever undertaken by The
Patriot, and one motivated by the most critical
need of our time?
"These are the times that try
men's souls."
—Thomas Paine
Like many of you, I have devoted much
of my life to ensure that the legacy of liberty, "endowed
by our Creator" and codified by our Founders in the
Declaration of Independence and our Constitution, is
sustained in our day, and preserved for our posterity.
"Liberty must at all hazards be
supported. We have a right to it, derived from our
Maker. ... Our obligations to our country never cease
but with our lives."
—John Adams
Unfortunately, the current Democrat
hegemony does not share our love for this great nation,
this greatest experiment in human history, and is bent
on terminating the last vestiges of our constitutional
Rule of Law, replacing it with their "enlightened"
version of rule of men.
"Of those men who have overturned
the liberties of republics, the greatest number have
begun their career by paying an obsequious court to
the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants."
—Alexander Hamilton
This regime has also laid a trap to
ensnare our free enterprise economic system. By engaging
in unbridled government spending at an unprecedented
scale and for which there is no constitutional authority,
this menace is on course to enslave future generations
with unsustainable debt and freedom-crushing taxation
levels.
"The principle of spending money
to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is
but swindling futurity on a large scale."
—Thomas Jefferson
Some of our countrymen are overwhelmed
with the current state of affairs. They have resigned to
defeat and withdrawn from the fields of battle. In so
doing, they betray the legacy of liberty extended to
them by generations of Patriots who have pledged their
"Lives, Fortunes and sacred Honor."
"Contemplate the mangled bodies of
your countrymen, and then say 'what should be the
reward of such sacrifices?' ... If ye love wealth
better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than
the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace.
We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick
the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly
upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our
countrymen!"
—Samuel Adams
However, I take heart because there is
a groundswell of activism across the Fruited Plain, as
our fellow Patriots are awakening to the ominous threat
of constitutional adulteration and tyranny. Citizens are
speaking out for liberty at public forums. Americans are
joining grassroots actions like the "Tea
Party" in the nation's capital last weekend, which
drew petitioners in numbers rivaling estimates for those
who attended Barack Obama's coronation.
"A free-born people ... may make
use of such power as God has given them to recover and
support their ... liberties."
Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty after the Boston
Tea Party
The "Essential Liberty Project"
is the first of a three-phase enterprise to support the
restoration of constitutional integrity, an objective
that has been foremost in The Patriot's mission
since our inception in 1996.
To that end, Phase One entails the
distribution of millions of Essential Liberty
booklets to high school and collegiate students
nationwide, as a primer on our nation's founding
documents and essential liberty.
This primer on Essential Liberty,
"endowed by our Creator" and codified by our
Founders in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S.
Constitution, has a proven record as an outstanding
resource for young Patriots. Its success is attributed
to both its comprehensive yet concise introduction to
American Liberty, and its compact size -- which is to
say it is at hand for debate, anytime, anywhere.
The Patriot recently
published that introduction as Part
One and Part
Two on liberty and Rule of Law. The combined essays
are published as the introduction to our new Constitution
booklet, the centerpiece of the Essential Liberty
Project.
Today, Constitution Day, we are asking
you to facilitate in two ways a successful launch of
this endeavor.
First, if you are a parent or
grandparent of a high school or college student, please
consider providing these Essential Liberty Constitution
booklets to your student's entire class, grade or school.
The booklets are available in bulk here.
Second, if you would rather sponsor
the distribution of Essential Liberty booklets to
student groups or classes who do not already have
sponsors, you can do so at our Essential Liberty Project
sponsorship
page.
Of course, we encourage distribution
of the Essential Liberty booklets to other groups,
organizations, clubs, ministries and the like.
At the close of the Constitutional
Convention in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin was asked
if the delegates had formed a republic or a monarchy.
"A republic," he responded, "if you can
keep it."
We invite you on this Constitution Day
to support the Essential Liberty Project, and help
restore Rule of Law for our great Republic, and keep its
flame of liberty bright for future generations.
For as John Adams cautioned, "A
Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom,
can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost
forever."
Help us restore our Constitution's
mandate for Rule of Law by distributing Essential
Liberty booklets or by sponsoring
that distribution.
Semper Vigilo, Fortis, Paratus et
Fidelis!
Mark Alexander
Publisher, PatriotPost.US
P.S. On a personal
note, happy birthday to my elder son, who drew his first
breath 16 years ago on this day, September 17th. Was it
mere coincidence that God would bless his mom and me
with a child on Constitution Day? We don't believe so.
(To submit reader comments visit our Letters
to the Editor page.)
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