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The Constitutional Crisis: The Role of the Federal Judiciary
By Warren Lee Grant
An Overview
In the summer of 1787, fifty-five men, representing the thirteen states, gathered in Philadelphia to hammer out a new governing document to replace the growingly ineffective Articles of Confederation. The new covenant was called the Constitution. After ratification and adoption by nine of the states, it went into effect on March 4, 1789. It became the nation's chief document, the supreme law of the land.
Some have declared this work as one of the greatest ever forged by a given body of men. It provided the foundation for what would become the greatest republic the world has ever known. The Constitution has served the nation with great effectiveness, guiding and preserving it through rapid growth, expanding complexities, and internal strifes holding the potential to make ruin of the republic.
Today the founding document of this nation is under siege. In the hands of the federal judiciary, the Constitution is being interpreted and applied in ways contrary to the founding principles and structures it established. Federalism is being dismantled, states rights are increasingly being denied by federal intervention, and the liberties of the people are being destroyed. The justices are no longer bound by the Constitution as the supreme law of the land but have become a law unto themselves. At will they now abandon the constitutional borders to impose their own predilections on a range of social and legal matters. For purposes of deception, they clothe their decisions with constitutional language.
This siege of the Constitution comes from other quarters as well-law schools, constitutional scholars, and from those who believe our founding and constituting document has outlived its usefulness in this modern age of rapid change. A body of men has gone so far as to propose a new national constitution.
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Separation of church and State: Myth or Reality?
By Warren Lee Grant
An Overview
This is indeed one of the most confusing issues facing America today. It is perplexing even for many in the church. A phrase once used by Thomas Jefferson, that a wall of separation should exist between church and state, has been seized by the federal judiciary,the ACLU, and others to increasingly deny religion access and voice in the public arena and in the affairs of this nation. The Constitution, however, makes no demand for such separation.
Furthermore, the phrase is nowhere to be found in the four corners of the Constitution. It has been seized upon and wielded to excise religion, Christianity namely and principally, by those who would have religion relegated exclusively to the private sphere. Only the secular is to find display and voice in the public sector.
Not only is such a position and act contrary to the Constitution, but to God as the Creator of all. According to Scripture, God created the nations. He is the Lord of nations as well as the King of nations. He ordained government which is bound to take His word and commandments for its guide. Those in government are declared in Romans 13 to be His ministers for the good of the people and for the carrying out of God's will and purposes. Too, God created the church. She also is under His lordship. She also is ordained by God to carry forth specific work in all spheres of human existence, to include government. Correctly understood, there is a functional separation between the church and government but not an absolute separation. God designed an alliance to exist between them for the good of all, and for the advancement of God's creative purposes.
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