A day that made it happened

This should be an important day for people living, moving, and having their being in the United States of America. Why? Today is Constitution Day. We recognize the wisdem of the Constitution’s creators in giving us a document that secures liberty, limites federal governmental powers, limits certain state powers, and defines and checks the three branches of federal government: Legislative, Judicial, Executive. 

Without the Constitution, the United States would have been a vastly different country, in which liberty would not have been as secure, as protected, and there may not have been any restraints on government. The creators knew that government left by itself, is corrupt, evil, and unjust. However, with limitations imposed on government, all benefit, the people benefit, and experience greater freedom. 

I rejoice in the manifested wisdom of America’s founders, the creators of the one document that made the United States of America, a symbol of hope, security, liberty, economic success, spiritual freedom, for all. Proof of this: countless numbers of people from every part of the globe came and continue to come to the United States of America to experience the liberties that we Americans have experienced through our unique history. We were the first modern nation to have a written constitution. All other nations either attempted to copy our creators’ wisdom, or come up with one themselves, in most cases, unsuccessfully. 

Today, I get out my constitution, which I have read on many occasion, and again, review the incredible mix of truth, wisdom, and harmony expressed therein. I say harmony, because the dcoument established a governmental system, with harmonious processes. Compared to other nations, more harmony has been the conclusion of processes under this constitution of the United States, even with difficult debates, and disagreements. It has proven to be a successful accomplishment, and for this, I owe gratitude the thinkers behind the Constitution. It is wisdom, that guided the Constitution’s creators. The Bible says, “with all thy getting, get wisdom.” The Constitution is an expression of devout, divinely guided wisdom. The constitution, framed the nation behind it, and made it extremely successful economically, socially, morally, structurally, and allowed for and open market of inventiveness and innovation, the hallmarks of American society.

Remembering How It All Started

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America is the
masterpiece of American history. It speaks to all who love liberty. It
defines the tone of the early American colonists and their longing for
independence from tyranny, oppression, discriminnation, abuse of
natural rghts, and taxation without representation.
Hear these immortal words as they are who we are:

“We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
rights that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

We cannot ponder this truth too often. It says fully that the Creator,
God, divine Mind, infinite good, the I am that I am, has made all of
us equal as sovereign individuals with rights that are given by this
Creator, not by other men or women,but that our rights are to be protected, secured by a government of men (or women).

I am very grateful that my father taught me early on, the importance of the Declaration of Independence, not just for Americans, but for everyone desiring the way of “liberty and justice for all.” When we internalize the ideas within this document, understand the context from which it was prepared, and focus on the applicability of the truths express, we become better citizens, and defenders of liberty, and rights.

This early American foundation stone allowed the success of many entrepreneurs in the land, and enabled the United States to have the best and most successful system of real estate with wide reaching home ownership in fee simple, with all the rights of ownership, than any other nation on earth. People from all over the world have come to buy real estate and take up home ownership. It has made the United States of America a rich land, an example to the world of what can be when the people recognize their rights as coming from something greater than anything on earth, greater than any human government, and that the people can speak up and discuss these rights, and fight to preserve them if necessary.  Laws and regulations were enacted to protect home ownership in the United States of America, and to make owning a home a practical, safe opportunity for so many. 

It has been and still is, relatively easy to buy a home in the United States, with its open society, and so many new and used homes on the market, including affordable prices for typical working people. So many have discovered the happiness of home ownership. I am reminded that the “pursuit of happiness” in early America often meant the pursuit of property.

Think of how wonderful that is, to have a government there to protect your life from criminals, oppressive laws, liberty to live where you want, in the kind of home you want, and the happiness of taking pride in owning a piece of the land with a house on it. If this has not been the American way, I don’t know what was. Even with more and more encroaching laws and regulations in our lives today, we still cherish home ownership, and have the continuing opportunities to pursue our dream of buying a home.

There is Gold in Tallahassee

There I has been a lot of talk about standards: a standard in customer service, a standard in accounting, a standard for our goals, a standard to follow in one’s career, a bible standard, a standard way of doing something, and yes, the gold standard.

For over 100 years the Unites States operated on a gold standard. Money could be redeemed in gold. Gold controlled government spending. Gold kept the nation economically under control and allowed for America’s early prosperity. For thousands od years gold was a standard currency in the world, but other metals were used as currency as well, chiefly, silver. Silver was also used as currency in the United States.

Then came the shocking switch to fiat money. That is paper money not backed by gold or silver. Then came the resulting debt, high inflation, government over spending at will (just print more paper) and greater taxation to pay for big government.

I long for the days in which we can return to a sound standard, such as the gold standard or bimetalism, in which two metals (gold and silver) form the money standard.

There are people in Tallahassee, Florida who are finding gold in the earth and holding on to it. The day of the dollars is coming closer unless we get back to soun4, solid money.