We the People Part I

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

We the People.

This is who we are as Americans, as of this writing “We the People” total over 300 million souls. It is not “I the Person” who drafted this declaration; there is no person in America that is more important than another, from the 3.5 million people who are currently homeless[1] to the President of the United States. It is a well known adage that the “Golden Rule” is no longer “Do unto others…” but is now “He who has the Gold makes the Rules”, well “We the People” indicated a total income of over $26,535,673,694 for the year 2004[2] . I’d say that entitles “We the People” to make the rules. The other side of this is that it does not say “We the Government”. Here in America we have a unique way of approaching government, which had its birth in the very document I am quoting. “We are a nation that has a government--not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the Earth. Our Government has no power except that granted it by the people.”[3] We live in a land where the rule of law begins and ends with “We the People”. The American People are not stupid, are not sheep, to be led; and we are most certainly not “the masses”, that nomenclature is reserved for those suffering under communism. We live under the curious predisposition that the citizens are in charge of the government, and that that government exists only because we allow it. Where else can one find such a place? I firmly believe that because of the Liberty “endowed upon us by our creator”, there is nothing in this world that can stand against the might of “We the People”.
[1] Based on figures recorded on http://www.washprofile.org/en/node/2295 as of 2-10-2007.
[2] http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/indtaxstats/article/0,,id=133521,00.html as of 2-10-2007
[3] Ronald Reagan First Inaugural Address. Tuesday, January 20th, 1981.