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October 26, 2009
How Seriously is America’s Sovereignty at Risk?
Our nation’s sovereignty, power within its borders, is derived from “We the People,” who ordain and establish the Constitution of the United States to preserve and protect our inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The Constitution was designed to allow our country to grow strong and able to defend itself against foreign aggression. As a result, it was anticipated that our country's happiness would be widespread, and our union, as a people, would be preserved. Our wise and beneficent government would gather the respect and admiration of mankind.
Today, there are encroaching threats to our sovereignty that undermine our rule of law. Unless these threats are recognized for what they are and addressed, our nation’s sovereign status in this world will be supplanted, as will the ability of our government to protect our natural rights. In order to protect ourselves from our enemies, we first need to be able to recognize our enemies. We need a moral clarity so we can recognize evil. There must be a distinction made between the American tradition of equality (which is that by virtue of being human there is equality of liberty) and Socialism (which aims merely for an equality of outcomes). The balance between individual rights and living in a society for mutual benefit must be maintained.
Basics Project believes that the main threats to our nation’s sovereignty come in three forms:
Constitutional Illiteracy;
The American Fifth Column - which is fighting an ideological war in the quest of succeeding in a Marxist revolution within the United States and which takes the form of political correctness and restrictions to the free market through boycotts and union activities; and finally,
Acts of Terrorism posed by radical Islamists who have issued a declaration of war against our country and its citizens with the end goal of achieving a global caliphate.
Since the United States is being attacked on all three fronts at this juncture of history, we describe this as “the perfect storm;” and because our freedoms are tied directly to our nation’s sovereign status in this world, our nation’s sovereignty must be preserved.
As President of BasicsProject.org and Director of Constitutional Studies, I examine the notion of sovereignty as it relates to these three threats in my book, Keeping a Republic: an Argument for Sovereignty. Chapters 1-4 explain the philosophical ideas which influenced the Framers and the context within which the United States Constitution was written. Chapter 5 provides us the specific rationale for creating the Electoral College and its importance to maintaining federalism. Chapters 6 -8 explain how the Fifth Column advances an ideological agenda within our country which is contrary to the fundamental law of the U.S. Constitution. Finally, Chapters 9-11 explain how a sovereign nation must operate on the world stage and provides the rationale for why we must conduct ourselves in this manner.
If we lose on any of these three fronts: Constitutional Literacy; The American Fifth Column; or the War on Terror, it will ultimately result in the loss of the sovereignty of our nation. James Madison believed “projects for universal peace” to be folly, that independent republics cannot trust to others to determine their rights, without forfeiting their independence. Basics Project believes Madison was correct in his assessment and seeks to educate the public in the threats to our sovereignty so that we may defend the freedoms for which we fought at our nation’s founding.
FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Nancy Salvato is the President and Director of Constitutional Literacy Program for Basics Project, a non-profit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) research and educational project whose mission is to re-introduce the American public to the basic elements of our constitutional heritage.
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