Home School Heartbeat Radio Program

This week on Home School Heartbeat, we’ll review America’s constitutional history to see how that impacts us today. Join us as Michael Farris looks at charges that our Constitution was illegally adopted.

Michael Farris:
In modern political debate, we often hear the phrase “judicial tyranny” applied to the Supreme Court. There is a growing number of people who believe that this third branch of government is misguided and way too powerful. The Court’s record supports this assessment. Many of the rulings of the Court in the last thirty years, such as Roe v. Wade, seem to embrace immorality while disrespecting our nation’s religious traditions. Citizens often feel helpless because the Supreme Court seems unstoppable. But this doesn’t have to be the case.

At the Virginia Ratification Convention in 1788, George Nicholas, an avid supporter of the Constitution, argued that the proposed document would not endanger the people’s liberties. “An enlightened people,” he said, “will never suffer what was established for their security to be perverted to an act of tyranny.” Nicholas believed that the Constitution was intended to protect the liberty of the people and that this good intention would not be subverted.

Why not?

The people would not allow it. If someone tried to abuse constitutional authority, the people would rise up and stop them.

The people’s ability to prevent such subversion depends upon their being enlightened—they must know what’s going on in our nation and understand how the Constitution was designed to work. Then, they’ll be able to apply that knowledge to prevent what was meant for their protection from being used as a tool to tyrannize them.

I’m Mike Farris.