225 Years of our Constitution

Earlier I posted about the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Antietam. Today is also Constitution Day, celebrating the 225th anniversary of the culmination of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, May 14-September 17, 1787 and the signing of our Nation's structural document.

Today, our constitutional republic is threatened by Statism. Our federal government acts today in areas and capacities not intended or conceived by the men who gathered in Philadelphia two and a quarter centuries ago.


I encourage all my readers to today (re-)read the Constitution, and just as importantly, contrast it to the Articles of Confederation that preceded it, and take in as well our founding document: the Declaration of Independence. Our Constitution is meaningless without the Declaration standing behind it.

Take the structure and limitations placed on our federal government by the Constitution and then remember this line from the Declaration of Independence, written a mere 11 years prior:

He has erected a Multitude of new Offices, and sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People, and eat out their Substance.

This is true today. We serve our federal government in so many more ways than not when the reverse should be true, and liberty itself today hangs in the balance.

In another 225 years, I fear that the Constitution of the United States will be looked back upon as a mere speed bump to the story and march of tyranny that is the dominant trend of human history. It's up to us to insure that the last 225 years is an enduring story and not just a historical footnote.