Mark Levin: “A Post-Constitutional Country”
January 19, 2012 at 3:57 am in News by Steve Davies 22 Comments
“I believe to a great extent we now live in a post-constitutional country, where much of the Constitution is ignored or evaded,” Levin told CNSNews.com, “It’s going to destroy us because it is an attack on the individual. It is an attack on the nature of human beings.”
In an interview with CNSNews.com about his new book—“Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”—Mark Levin contrasts Utopian schemes laid out by political philosophers from Plato to Marx with the vision of natural law, God-given rights, and individual liberty that inspired the Founding Fathers.
Levin argues that what all these Utopians -from Plato, to More, to Hobbes, Marx and today Obama – have in common is “an attack on the nature of man, it is an attack on individual sovereignty, it is an attack on morality, it’s an attack on the civil society.” To affect the fundamental transformation of society they seek, they must destroy individual liberty, and this is a “very serious mindset and it’s not the American mindset.”
Against this Levin contrasts John Locke’s notion “of an individual’s God-given and inalienable rights, in which all individuals are entitled and which provide the moral condition of a civil society.”
“John Locke was the most frequently referred to and read of all the philosophers during the Revolutionary and pre-Revolutionary period. His impact on Thomas Jefferson was enormous. You can hear that as the basis of the Declaration of Independence”.
“What Locke meant by equality, what the Founders meant by equality in the Declaration, was not conformity, was not uniformity, was not outcomes. What they meant by equality is there are certain God-given rights that every human being upon birth has. And those God-given rights are the right to live, the right to live freely, and the right to pursue your interests. In other words, the right to be unmolested by other people and unmolested by your government. This is the essential part of our founding.”
Read the entire interview by Terence P. Jeffrey at CNSNews.com
So Steve, what do we do and in what order do we do it to blunt and eventually reverse the sustained attack on the Constitution and our freedoms? How do we undo the biased ‘education’ our children are getting that supports the move against the Constitution? How do we reverse the trend set in play by the Elite few who want to control everything? Many people are calling this trend the ascension of the New World Order, my take on it is the attempted return of the Old World Order trying desperately to reestablish itself in the ‘Divine Rights of Kings’ mode. To me the true New World Order was and is the revolutionary concept of self rule in a Republic based on Democratic Principles and constrained by a written Constitution, as opposed to a classical true democracy which always ends in disaster and dissolution into a dictatorship.
Take your kids out of public schools and put them into Montessori school < called different things in different states (Also free) SCARES the heck out of most public schools because public schools are funded by how many kids are in class and when enough people take their kids out they will wake up and do what the people want again. They have forgotten WHO pays them! "We the people". A few years ago when my youngest started high school I had the misfortune of having to tell 2 of the 3 principles that fact before pulling her out of school and putting her in a Montessori school. most all the schools I researched had better teachers small classes 1 on 1 tutoring and MANY extra things that public schools tell us they just can't afford to give our kids. Well truth be told it wasn't rocket science to figure out why, public schools have way too many people in the administration end and therefore will not give the teachers what they need to teach our children properly. Or pay a good wage to the teachers who honestly want to teach.
IMHO, #1 Elect Ron Paul President! He will take care of the rest!
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In my opinion the TPP has become a bunch of establishment war mongering Republicans just like Republican party. If you say you are for “constitutionally limited gov’t” it should apply to all things said or not said in the Constitution, not just what is convenient for the TPP or R party. Going to war without formal declarations and in violations of UN treaty. The recent wording of the NDAA 2012 with respect to detention of US citizens should be of greater concern than lets bomb Iran. I think one of the saddest moments recently was when Ron Paul was booed in SC for quoting the Golden Rule, which is in a sense Jesus’ greatest commandment. A bunch of bible belt “Christians” booing their saviors greatest commandment just to tote the party line of WAR….. Ask yourself, Do you hold your “party’s” mantra higher than that of the Constitution, your morals, and your God?
our battle tanner, is against your ideology. ,socialism, marxism and communism.in the end
God will decide who the victor or victors will be.
The Tea Party should get behind Rick Santorum Now! Here’s why. Rick Santorum is a consistent, steady, level-headed, and wise conservative. Newt only won South Carolina because it was his territory where he campaigned harder than the others and because he is an “entertainer” on the stage. Newt and Romney have not been conservatives over the years. They claim to be conservative now, but we cannot trust them to keep fighting for conservative values if either one gets the nomination. Newt can win a debate, but OBAMA will not debate the GOP candidate. His record cannot be defended so why would he participate in his own destruction on stage. Romney is not a conservative: just look at RomneyCare. Ron Paul is “way out there” with wanting to legalize drugs and diminishing our military defense around the world.
The issues are important and Rick explains them best. Character matters! Rick is genuine: What you see is what you get. He is no fake! His honesty and integrity would bring respect back to America. Those who know this PLEASE: Shout it from the housetops! Tea Party Patriots, Please act like true patriots and support the true, consistent, conservative! Rick Santorum 2012!
Sounds like you are right. Mitt is a liberal simply look at his record. If he I did not look at his face I would think he was Obama. Newt is a great debater with some pretty good ideas but has WAY too many issues and says too many silly things. I think Rick is our country’s only prayer. Honesty, Integrity, Intelligence and Conservative (opps…that is intelligence)
I agree Santorum was my second choice after Herman Cain.
Here, Here well said!!!!
If you think Ron Paul’s ideas are substantive you are not wrapped too tight. You seem to be too agitated about something you do not understand. It is true that most liberals: they do not have a good sense of reality.
The terms”establishment” and ” war mongering” are not addresses in the constitution.
The War was declared against us by the Islamic radicals. Citizens that war against their own country are to be hung as traitors. And if ole’ Gorge Washington was still around he would hang em for sure. You could spend a couple of weeks in stocks for terminal ignorance. The great Thing in America is you can be anything you desire.
Contrary to what is being espoused, Ron Paul is not Anti-War. Instead he is a strong Constutionalist and believes that, in accordance with the Constitution, Congress has the duty to determine whether or not a war is in the interest of the American People. Given a situation where war is in the interest of the American People, the President has the duty to do what is needed to carry out the instructions of Congress – No More, No less. We have not had a declaration of war since World War II. Given this fact, for more than a half century, our youngsters are considered little more than Cannon Fodder for the presidential re-election and the Military Industrial Complex.
I came to this website after long and hard soul searching. After watching the Republican primaries and the debates, I have decided that the Republicans have no candidate for President, and no platform if they could find soneone who is both electable and has the heart and soul of our Founding Fathers. Several of you have commented about our needing to return to our roots. I believe with all my heart that is exactly what is needed. A candidate who would do that, would begin by getting out troops out of any country where we have no Constitutional Right to be there. Second he would stand up in full sight of the citizens of this country and tell them all exactly why our Constitution has a Bill of Rights and that todays U.S. Government looks a lot like what those Founding Fathers feared in those years of turmoil after the Revolution and leading up to the adoption of the Constitution. If the Deligates at the ratifing State Conventions were told that our New Government would grow so enormus and so out of control that they built a mountain of debt totalling in excess of our annual gross national product, there would never have been a United States of America. Fear of just such a Governemnt is what spured our Founding Fathers to include a Bill of Rights and to Limit the powers of the new Government to just those specificly spelled out in the Constitution. Our Founding Fathers could never have imagined a Government so corrupt as to require all working Americans and their employers to pay a Social Security Tax for their entire working life only to find out when retirement age was reached that the Government had squandered the wealth and then had the ordasity to say we have to cut Social Security benefits because of the interest paid on all these “ENTITLEMENTS” . Lumping hard working, tax paying Americans in with welfare recipients and using a word like entitlements to describe money they were entrusted with that they waisted. A Government who made a contract with Federal Employees Unions to lump them into the Social Security System and knowing all the time that most of those employees will never see that money. All this happened in the 1980′s and still today nothing has changed. Still spending like there is no tomorrow. I hope that the Tea Party can mend their fences and find an honest man with a good grasp on our history. One who can put a stop to the uncontrolled spending, reduce the size of Government, and rebuild our Industrial Base to provide the necessary jobs to pay off this mountain of debt before it crushes us all.
Charles
I have to agree with you about Ron Paul in some respects. However his view on how we should handle traitors is not one of them and he is totally disconnected on foreign policy.
Ron Paul is the only sane person that is still left…..and to show that Romney and Gingrich are ahead of him shows that people are brainwashed and fed lies by the media. I’m not even a big Ron Paul fan, he is honestly the ONLY sane person left though. The day that the south carolinians boo’d him was the day that I lost all hope for the republican party. George Washington stated that political parties would tear the country apart, but apparently many modern republicans ignore this when talking about the ideas of the founding fathers. And I hate to say it but a large part of that is the money. Gosh I hope the people come to their senses soon
The appointment of czars and cutting of the defense budget by $662,000,000 has greatly shown that the nation as a whole is getting alot worse rather than getting any better. It doesn’t matter whom we elect into office (with the notable exception of President Obama to a second term…God Forbid) the new president is going to have his hands full with pulling this nation out of the nose dive it’s already in. Economically, we are crushed with debt (and China, our dear friends to the east, continue to buy it). Before President Obama took office gas prices fell to about $1.60 per gallon. Really, gas prices have alone doubled since then. Our federal gov’t has racked up more than $14,000,000,000,000 in additional debt and the answer coming from the left is to raise taxes on the rich. I am not a rich individual, however, I seriously doubt that raising taxes on the top 2% will counter in any way the existing 47% that do not pay any federal or state income taxes whatsoever. The more to the left we as a nation swing, the more idiotic we become as a whole. If you were a “draft dodger” you should not be in a position to hold a public office. Politicians do not serve the country nearly as much as they serve themselves.
I am convinced Obama set the price for crude much higher with his early meeting in Saudi Arabia. Remember the bow? He suggested the price for crude should and could be much higher. This was desired by the bamster to ultimately support his green agenda. He needed higher crude prices to make the green agenda work economically so he told the Saudis this. And they of course agreed, went back to thier tents and laughed all night long about how stupid this new President was.
In the recent history, the price of natural gas is now so low the gas fracking companies are taking rigs out of commision. Basic Adam Smith at work supply and demand actually oversupply. Move the fracking rigs to the Bakken and do the same for oil and tell these Mid-East oil shiekdoms to sell it somewhere else, we are using American crude, drilled by American companies and refined in American refineries. Now if we could just build some pipelines.
Jeff the president is not stupid he knows exactly what he is doing to Is all this planned. Even the dead voted for him in chicago! He is taking down the country from the inside we should be able to use his own law against him (ndaa).
NANCY,YOU ARE SO RIGHT.EVERYTHING THAT OBAMA IS DOING IS INTENTIONAL.HE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT WHAT HE IS DOING.IT IS ALL PART OF HIS MASTER PLAN,TO TAKE DOWN THE US.
The problem began long before this President and the solution must go deeper than simply replacing this incompetent ideologue. Mr. Obama’s imperious disregard of the Constitution is only one manifestation of a national government which has expanded far beyond its original constitutional bounds. We can only hope to be free of this or future administrations of its ilk when we restore the original limits on the national government which have been stripped away by Supreme Court decisions since 1937. Given how entrenched that Supreme Court jurisprudence is, this can only be done by amendments restating those original constitutional limits. See http://www.timelyrenewed.com.
this is a terrific meme that many people can understand. excellent.
I had just finished reading Mark Levin’s book “Ameritopia” ~~ it goes on my lifetime top 10 list ! What an eye-opener ~~ Levin masterly outlines historic decisions which directly relate to America’s economic failure and our Constitutional decay.
He could have fact checked before starting a mobbing campaign against a guy who was used for medical testing without his knowledge causing physiological reactions, or accusing people of raping kids who didnt, or footage of medical problems like prostatitus and boils described as something they werent. But that goes a few years back.