First, We Need to Save the Constitution | Eastern North Carolina Now

    As we watch corruption at the highest levels of government burn our beloved Republic to the ground, it is hard to look at the future with any optimism. Not only were more Clinton emails released this week that point to collusion between the Clinton campaign and the DOJ, but an anonymous source connected to the FBI told Fox News that the majority of agents assigned to the Clinton case favored prosecution, and that the conclusion that Director Comey came to was a "top-down decision." More so than ever before, the federal government seems impossible to trust. The so-called 'Justice' department has proved itself to be nothing more than a political chess piece, and any sober observer of current American politics should be able to see this. In my eyes, the only way to heal this virus is to limit the power our federal government has. The beast has grown too fat and evil for the American people to trust it to fix itself out of good intentions. The only path we have to maintaining our political system and protecting individual liberty going forward will require a rebirth of Constitutional government.

    The Founding Fathers were wary of powerful central government for a reason. Unfortunately, ignorance of and even disdain for the principles these men espoused from the political elite is rearing its ever-growing head in the form of lawlessness. While our Founders insisted that self governance was the way to American peace and prosperity, contemporary political elites believe that bureaucrats in Washington know best how we should run our lives. The utter corruption within that city proves this to be false. The tenth amendment to the Constitution was supposed to be what protected the people from entirely central rule, but state's rights have been trampled over by not only a fat bureaucracy, but also a Supreme Court that would rather write policy than make textual rulings and broad interpretations of institutional power by the executive.

    Fixing this enormous mess is admittedly easier said than done, but possible. An important step will be electing Senators and Representatives with a firm respect for the Constitution and encouraging the Congress to regain its ambition and uphold its Constitutional prerogatives against a presidency that is more powerful that the Framers ever intended. I would love to see more Senators in the mold of Mike Lee and Rand Paul and more Representatives like Trey Gowdy and Justin Amash who are willing to exercise the Congress's considerable oversight authority to keep Washington in check. The critical power of the purse that the Framers granted to Congress should also be exercised in a fashion that would require greater discipline within the government.

    With a Clinton presidency looming, we also have to be prepared for the possibility of State Nullification. This means that if Hillary Clinton appoints radical leftists to the Supreme Court that make rulings that infringe upon our Constitutional rights or more federal laws get passed that do the same, the states have to be prepared to render these laws null and void by refusing to enforce them. This will undoubtedly cause an uproar in the media and bring the Justice department down on any state that does this, but it is also the surest defense against federal tyranny and will be a critical step in giving the States back their rightful share of power in the Federal system.

    As a South Carolinian, I have much more faith in the leadership of Governor Haley than I do in President Obama and as an American, I have more faith in the political thought of Jefferson and Madison than that of Justice Ginsburg and others on the far left. I also trust my local and state law enforcement officials much more than I do James Comey and his FBI. The mass movement of power towards the central government since the 1930s has left us less prosperous and less free. It should be obvious that the crowd in Washington isn't responsible enough to handle the serious power they yield. It is about time that Americans of all ideologies take a serious look at the moral failures of big government, so that we can begin to move back to the Constitutional principles that we agreed to in the first place.

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Should Americans be thankful for North Carolinians setting precedent in taking a stand for their state's right to manage the safety of their public facilities, where separation of the sexes remains, or should they follow Bruce Springsteen's lead and boycott the state as bigots since they will not allow grown Transgender men to use the same bathrooms /locker rooms as pre-pubescent girls?

  North Carolina is right to control the separation of the sexes as a matter of decorum and safety.

  North Carolina is a bigoted state to not require that children of opposite sexes share the same public facilities with adults of the opposite sex, although misidentified - the Transgender.

  I generally prefer the natural environs of the vacant, although rather public, large tree.

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