To answer the question that is the title, we have to know of what the US consists. Is it an ethnic group, a collection of buildings and resources, a land mass with boundaries, or is it the Constitution. Clearly what differentiates the US from other countries is the US Constitution. The Constitution defines us as a people. Without the Constitution we would be a different country. Therefore, to lose the Constitution is to lose the country.
Does the Constitution still exist? Let us examine the document and come to a conclusion.
The Constitution consists of a description of a republic with three independent branches, legislative, executive, and judicial, each with its own powers, and the Bill of Rights incorporated as constitutional amendments. The Bill of Rights describes the civil liberties of citizens that cannot be violated by the government.
Article I of the Constitution describes legislative powers. Article II describes executive powers, and Article III describes the power of the judiciary. For example, Article I, Section 1 gives all legislative powers to Congress. Article I, Section 8 gives Congress the power to declare war.
The Bill of Rights protects citizens from the government by making law a shield of the people rather than a weapon in the hands of the government.
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The federal government of the United States does exist as birthed under the 14th Amendment. The united States as outlined in the Declaration of Independence does not exist:
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
A republic built on the Liberty, states’ rights and the rule of law has been replaced by a dying democracy ruled by a political elite. These Looters have bankrupted the nation’s wealth, sacrificed our children’s blood for their profit and sold our freedom for thirty pieces of silver. They replaced God with the State, vilify the Christian faith as a mental illness and promote Islam as a “religion of peace”.
The government does not represent the people, our faith or our country. They trumpet tyranny and immorality from their ramparts as they look down on their “subjects”.
What is the duty of watchmen on the wall?
David DeGerolamo
