Government Has No Rights

Government has no rights. It only has responsibilities. That is, it has no innate rights. Only people have innate rights. The government is responsible to the people, not the other way around. If government does have rights, it is only secondarily, as a product of its responsibilities. Obama apparently doesn’t grasp this basic concept. He says, “the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties. It says what the states can’t do to you, says what the federal government can’t do to you.” Does he want the government to be able to do things to us? The government has absolutely no liberty to do anything to you (although it may have a responsibility). It acts for you; particularly at the Federal level. The uniqueness of America, and thus its exceptionalism, is because in America the citizens are above the government, not vice versa. The Constitution that he can’t seem to understand begins with the words “We, the People . . . do ordain and establish this Constitution.” That seems pretty clearly to put the people first. Jughead also apparently doesn’t think the Constitution says what the government must do for us, either: “But it doesn’t say what the federal government or the state government must do on your behalf.” But if he’d just read the ellipsis, he’d see that it does: “to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity.” Apparently, mission statements are beyond him. What a maroon! If he either doesn’t understand this simple but eloquent statement or if he rejects it on principle, he is incapable of upholding the Oath of Office which he will take if elected. And he called himself a Constitutional scholar when he said those things! We’re laughing all the way to the polls.