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Forsooth!

Now there’s a perfectly good English word with a clear, concise meaning. When was the last time you heard it used in everyday conversation? No doubt you recognize the term as one which people once used but the definition is insignificant. The word no longer conveys anything that matters. With a heavy heart I submit two more words which fit the category “Meaningless.” Democrat and Republican have ceased to convey anything meaningful! Their replacements are and ought to be respectively Liberal and Conservative.

Whatever Democrat used to mean clearly no longer matters and the same goes for Republican. These once venerable terms have degenerated into nothing more than a cloak behind which political parasites regularly and systematically hide. Ah, but the solution is simple in conception and implementation! The polarizing point is our very own founding document, the Constitution.

The people of this great nation must demand all holders and seekers of public office declare regarding their stance on the Constitution. Liberal or Conservative?

Liberal: Viewing the Constitution as a “living” document, subject to interpretation and changeable outside the established provisions for amendment and ratification by the states.

Conservative: Viewing the Constitution as being a “literal” document to be followed and enforced. Changes are to follow the established procedure of amendment and ratification by the states.

Remember…the Constitution places no constraint on the citizen, only on the government. In effect we are demanding our representatives to declare whether they believe the citizen is free and sovereign or does the governing authority have final say? Did the founding Fathers forge a guide for the nation or merely a suggestion? I confess my great fear to be that words like “freedom, civility and sovereignty” are becoming themselves “meaningless words.”

I pray not!