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Fire in the Minds of Judges
Many Americans speak of “constitutional rights” with a reverence that borders on myth. But few have actually read the Constitution.
Even fewer grasp its structure, amendments, or original purpose. Like the Magna Carta… wrongly thought to have empowered commoners when it only granted rights to nobles… the U.S. Constitution is now a symbol whose actual contents are overshadowed by legends. People speak of it as if it were divinely perfect, even while overlooking the fact that it has been ignored and altered dozens of times, some changes being radical.
For instance, the 16th Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax, overturned the concept of equal taxation. Where once all were taxed uniformly, the new amendment created a system where one man’s income could be taxed at a vastly different rate than another’s.
This not only violates biblical equity… God’s requirement of fair weights and measures… but also undermines the very structure of limited government the Founders envisioned.
Amendments and the Machinery of Control
Each amendment to the Constitution, in practice, reinterprets or even nullifies what came before it. Lawyers and courts increasingly operate under the idea that newer amendments… like the 16th… override older protections such as those in the First.
Religious liberty, once enshrined in “Congress shall make no law,” is now subject to the whims of public policy and tax code. In tax courtrooms, attorneys have argued for years that churches enjoy “revocable privileges,” not constitutional immunity.
And it’s not just religious liberty. The Constitution once insisted that gold and silver be the only legal tender. That, too, has been discarded in favor of fiat currency, allowing endless money-printing to fuel government welfare, war, and vote-buying. With real currency constraints gone, politicians no longer govern… they purchase loyalty.
From Republic to Rule by Regulation
A republic is ruled by law. A democracy, the Founders warned, devolves into mob rule and then tyranny. Today, the American Republic has the form of law but not the substance. Behind the façade, an unelected bureaucracy churns out regulations… tens of thousands per year… which carry the force of law but are never passed by Congress.
This regulatory explosion was foreshadowed by revolutions past. In Fire in the Minds of Men, James Billington highlights how journalists and media men played leading roles in revolutionary movements across Europe. In modern America, the revolution is quieter… but no less real. The Constitution is not being overthrown with barricades in the streets, but continues to be redefined by court rulings, executive orders, and agency guidelines. The media collaborates with it to marginalize dissenters… especially uncompromised Christians and anyone suspicious of dishonest medicine and deadly vaccinations.
Mainstream Media and the Subversion of Liberty
The First Amendment protects both religion and the press. But the press often attacks the Christian worldview that gave it birth. By undermining Christian influence in public life, mainstream media saws off the very branch it sits on.
Should government redefine press freedom as it has redefined religious liberty, the media will find itself isolated. History proves this: every revolution that used the press locked it down once power was seized.
This isn’t speculative. We’ve already seen broadcasters and websites that question deep state narratives deplatformed and even debanked. Federal courts have ruled that anything opposing “public policy” can be denied protection. The Constitution is being used…ironically… as a legal platform for dictatorship, while compromised conservatives continue to dream that mere citation of the Bill of Rights will secure their freedoms.
From Self-Government to Caesarism
The Founders built the Constitution on the presumption that individuals, governed by biblical law, could govern themselves. But as biblical teaching declined in churches and schools, so did self-government. The cry for a strongman will grow louder as chaos builds… just as it did in ancient Rome. Americans today are governed by “czars” for energy, health, education, and everything else you can think of. They’ve traded personal responsibility for promises of protection and provision.
Jefferson’s Louisiana Purchase, celebrated in schoolbooks, was a clear constitutional violation that set a dangerous precedent. Today, the federal government claims powers nowhere found in Article I, Section 8. The states, once sovereign within their spheres, have become administrative districts of a centralized national government.
Equity Forgotten, Liberty Forfeited
Biblical equity… treating all by the same standard… is foundational to justice. Yet modern Christians rarely know what the word justice really means. When courts speak of “social equity,” they mean outcomes engineered by bureaucrats, not impartial laws.
This is why progressive taxation, forced thought, and speech regulation are justified by shifting moral definitions rather than fixed principles. Without equity, the Golden Rule collapses. Without biblical law as a framework… constitutional liberty dies.
Churches bear much blame. Pastors teach false prophecy and spew pious gush, but neglect justice and the biblical basis for civil government. The Constitution, like the Bible, must be read as a whole… not wrongly divided and not cited when a national crisis occurs. Christians must relearn what justice is, or they will keep surrendering their rights without even realizing it.
A Constitution Without Foundations
Modern architecture often hides its foundations to appear weightless and new. Humanism, likewise, wants law without a Lawgiver, government without God, freedom without moral restraint. But floating idealism, whatever the flavor, is suicidal.
A state built on nothing except babel will fall into tyranny or chaos. And the more Americans lose the ability to govern themselves, the more they will cry out for someone else to rule over them.
The Founders warned against this. They gave us a Constitution designed not to provide but to protect. Its greatest virtue is that it can be amended… reformed… not through revolution, but through lawful consensus. But that reform must begin in the pulpit, in the home, and in the heart.
Unless Americans return to the foundation of the law of God and the principle of self-government… the Constitution will remain what it has already become: a relic cited in courtrooms, reinterpreted by elites, and unread by the people it was meant to protect.
