Will the Constitution Stand?

When I was in Washington DC recently — for the Moms for Liberty Summit — I took a morning off to visit the National Archives. In February, enviro extremists poured a red powdery substance on the glass case holding the US Constitution, explaining that they just wanted to “foment a rebellion.” I set out, eager to make sure the Constitution — as well as the Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights — were all secured.

I was delighted to find that not only had the documents been restored, they are still popular. Americans were pointing out passages to each other and to their children, explaining the glory of our heritage, keeping alive the phrase in the Declaration of Independence that still resonates — “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who became a great abolitionist orator, agreed with Abraham Lincoln that the Constitution was the only document that offered “the promise of universal freedom.” But these days, the Far Left trashes the Constitution.

The Biden-Harris White House ignored a ruling from the Supreme Court and forgives student loans without congressional approval. The Left also talks of packing the court, to ensure a radical majority. The NYTs’s book critic, Jennifer Szalai, recently wrote that “one of the biggest threats to America’s politics might be the country’s founding document.” Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s law school, called for a new constitution, as otherwise, he said, the U.S. would “drift toward authoritarianism.”

Elon Musk put it succinctly. “They want to overthrow The Constitution.”

When the Constitution was drafted in 1787, the 55 delegates who gathered in a hot Philadelphia summer deliberately made the Constitution difficult to discard. Anyone wanting to amend the document would first need to lobby Congress and win two-thirds of both the House and the Senate. And then they would have to marshal enough support from the public to win ratification from three-fourths of the states.

In my own books about the women’s suffrage movement — Gilded Suffragists and And Yet They Persisted — I demonstrated that amending the Constitution is a tough climb.

In our nation’s near 250-year history, we have added only 27 amendments. The first ten were known as the Bill of Rights. And the only reason we have those is because critics in 1788 argued the new Constitution gave too much power to the central government. Men had spilled blood for the Revolution and women had worked hard to support their families amid the boycott of British goods. They would not have their efforts mocked by a tyrannical government that merely replaced one kind of king with another. If the framers want them to ratify the document, they would have to add a Bill of Rights that protected state sovereignty and individual liberties.

Lately, those ten amendments — the first amendment right to free speech and free religion, the second amendment right to bear arms, and the tenth amendment that gives any powers not expressly reserved for the federal government to the states and the people — have come under attack. In fact, all over the world, globalists weaponize law enforcement to end freedom of speech on Social Media platforms in Brazil, France, England, Ireland and Australia — especially if the speech is critical of their political regimes. Joined by the international organizations more intent on global control than on their missions — the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, the United Nations — they are quashing free will. Free speech without freedom to chose your topic has another word: censorship.

Elon Musk shut down X in Brazil because he would not bend to the corrupt administration’s censorship. X is no longer accessible in the largest country in South America. And if any of the 22 million Brazilians with X accounts are caught attempting to log in via a VPN, they face fines of $8,900 per day. 

Once, an American president would condemn this illegal crackdown on an essential human right, praising the people of Brazil for mass protests in the streets.

But there silence in the Biden-Harris White House — and not just because the building is vacant. Minnesota AG Keith Ellison, rumored to be Kamala’s choice for US Attorney General, expressed the Far Left’s disdain for constitutional law and free speech rights by posting in Portuguese "obrigado Brasil!" (Thank you, Brazil)

The US Constitution was based on Judeo-Christian values, standing on morality, a belief in God, and those inalienable rights accorded all humans. But those seeking to destroy the Constitution and eviscerate the First Amendment have a new religion — a Marxist ideology not of class but of gender, race and enviro craziness. The only God they seem to worship is the idol of totalitarian, corrupt governance, where the only speech is approved by the government, and dissent is punishable by jail time.

Some of you may have heard of Rebecca Lavrenz, called the J6 Praying Grandma. She was in the Capitol for 10 minutes on January 6, 2021, praying. She entered and left peacefully. She was convicted of four misdemeanors and sentenced to six months’ home detention and a $103,000 fine — the exact amount donors had sent for her legal expenses to GiveSendGo (this is the Christian fundraising site created after GoFundMe stole the money of those of us who donated to the Freedom Convoy of Canadian truckers seeking to end the COVID-19 mandates). But the judge also banned Rebecca from using the Internet for six months, robbing her of free speech.

These days her daughter Laura often posts for her, to email her followers, because she is not allowed to. And often Rebecca texts her daughter with her intent. Here’s one.

So how do you determine when to keep silent and when to speak up? I believe knowing when to speak up, and when not to, comes out of relationship with God. … After waiting over 3 hours in the DC district courtroom on August 12th for my sentence to be determined, and just before the judge delivered it, I was given the opportunity to address him. … Many of you may already know what came out of my mouth but these were my first words as I addressed the judge, "Even though I respect your position, your honor, I do believe there's a God who's a Higher Judge and one day He said every knee will bow to Him and therefore I honor Him." … I was fully aware of how my words could affect the sentence I received, but over a life time of determining and learning to not let the fear of man rule above my fear and awe of God, I chose to not keep silent at that moment and God did fill my mouth. …There is much injustice and deception occurring in our government today. If I would choose to remain silent at this time in history, I agree with Albert Einstein, "If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity." And as Martin Luther King Jr. said, "There comes a time when silence is betrayal. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."