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Fictional Rights

By Tammy Derouin

Not that long ago, most Americans understood that in order to secure the blessings of our liberty and to be able to pass it on to our posterity, we had to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare. These were all necessary orders to forming a more perfect union.

The words, “a more perfect union” not perfect union, were used in the Preamble of the Constitution. The founders knew that a perfect world did not exist. Attempting to create one would be futile but there was always room for improvement. Besides, by whose standards would perfection be determined?

The founders understood that happiness and prosperity could only be obtained by the individual. It was not the job of the government to determine the definition of happiness or success. It was, however, the job of the government to protect the rights of the people as set forth in the U.S. Constitution.

There was a time when our freedoms and liberties were highly valued and therefore, the story of our country and our system of government were actually taught to the next generation. Without the knowledge of our past and an understanding of what led to our founding, it would become too easy to take such basic freedoms for granted.

If you do not understand the value of something you hold, it becomes something which can be easily traded. In the quest for power, government is all too willing to take advantage of ignorance. It preys upon the uninformed and dangles promises, which no government can truly keep.

We are an exceptional nation because we are free. We are free because we stood up to tyranny and tied it down with the U.S. Constitution. Without the Constitution, we loose our exceptionalism, our freedom. We become just another nation of men;