If you were to ask my brother Paul...

I guess since I have some political work experience and military background, some have asked me what I think about different things that have been happening in America, so to keep it general…let me be specific.

"...whenever any one shall go about to bring them into such slavish conditions, they will always have a right to preserve what they have not a power to part with, and to rid themselves of those who invade this fundamental, sacred, and unalterable law of self-preservation,... And thus the community may be said in this respect to be always the supreme power..." - John Locke

The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America
WE THE PEOPLE of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure 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 for the United States of America.

The Founding Fathers of American Government, with Godly wisdom, structured the new American government to be divided into three branches; the Executive, the Legislative, and the Judicial. This system of government was designed to keep the federal government small and to keep it from growing to powerful. If someone were to ask you which branch of government was the most powerful, what would you say? Some might say the executive, but most anything the president does can be cancelled out by the other two branches very quickly. If you said the judicial branch, keep in mind they can only strike down rulings or laws already in effect and they can only hear a limited number of cases each year. If you said the legislative branch you would be right for the legislative branch introduces and passes all legislation, and are entirely more active in that sense than the other two branches. Also, it is the Legislature which is elected more often by the citizens, therefore the other two branches are and should be subordinate.

There is a more powerful check on the American government that is written into the US Constitution that is all to often ignored. It is written into the preamble to the Constitution. It was the preamble that expressed the Founding Fathers reason and right to create a new government and it did not begin with "We who are rich" or "We who are more intelligent than the rest of the Americans", it began with WE THE PEOPLE. As the preamble to the US Constitution states, it is up to the people to establish justice and insure domestic tranquility. By this I take it that the Founding Fathers would whole heartedly expect the citizens of America to organize and act out of concern for the welfare of the American citizen when concern by our elected officials is not evident in their actions (their concern seems to always taper off after an election).

All power is given to the government by the people with trust in hopes of attaining an end, an end in which liberty and freedom is secured to the citizens. However, should that end ever be ignored and neglected or even opposed, then that trust is forfeited back into the hands of the citizens who gave it. Those citizens then decide its new placement where they think best to ensure their safety and security. Thus is a perpetual cycle in which the supreme power remains with the people and each new form of government, leaders, etc... are in danger of the people should they ever be so stupid and careless or wicked to carry on with designs against the freedom and liberty of its citizens.

The last part of the preamble establishes that WE THE PEOPLE are the ones who have ordained and established the Constitution of the United States, therefore it is WE THE PEOPLE who are supreme to the powers that it commissions.

I hope this was plain enough.

Paul Curtman