Ron Paul Fails To Grasp The Threat To Liberty In The U.S. Constitution

Ron Paul is by far the most stalwart member of the U. S. Congress and a true American hero. However, his defense of the U. S. Constitution as the bulwark of American liberty in his campaign manifesto, is fatally flawed (“The Revolution”, Grand Central Publishing, 2008).

The cover of the book declares Ron Paul to be the leading advocate of freedom in our nation's capital. He has in fact been nicknamed “Dr. No” by his colleagues because he always votes for the perceived limitations of power in the U. S. Constitution. Ron Paul Fails To Grasp

The ThreatBut in the very act of embracing the Constitution Dr. Paul has ironically rejected the true Source of American liberty. He fails to understand why Patrick Henry and other anti-Federalists rejected the Constitution itself as an attack on liberty.

The reason is his inability to understand that the Constitution placed virtually no effective limits on centralized power. He believes that Article I, Section 8 limits Federal power simply because it enumerates those powers, when 200+ years of history has proven just the opposite. For example, Patrick Henry pointed out that when the powers of both sword and purse are given to Congress tyranny is inevitable. This sweeping grant of power left the states virtually defenseless in the face of federal power, as subsequent history has demonstrated. On the other hand, Dr. Paul asserts that “The limitations the Constitution placed on the federal government had to be taken seriously if we expected to maintain a free society” (p45). To that we respond with Patrick Henry, “what limitations? “”The Revolution” even takes note of the fact that Patrick Henry objected to the “general welfare” clause on the grounds that it was too open-ended. He points out that Patrick Henry warned that this was a blank check for the central government to do anything it so desired. But then Dr. Paul counters that the other founders disagreed with Henry. And since they are the founders they MUST be correct even though everything Patrick Henry warned against has come to pass. Abuse of PowerGiven Ron Paul's suspicion of central government, his endorsement of the Constitution's power to raise armies is remarkable. He naively asserts it is “not a power to force people into the army” (p57). Patrick Henry saw through that argument in an instant on June 16, 1788 in the Virginia Ratifying Convention. When the Constitution grants an unlimited authority to raise armies he declared, “It is a government of force, and the genius of despotism expressly. “Ron Paul fails to understand that the Constitution was a counterfeit from the day it was struck in 1787.

It promised liberty at the same time it rejected the fountainhead of liberty. Dr. Paul leaves us with a final exhortation: “It is not too late to rally and recall our people to the constitution, the rule of law, and our traditional American republic” (p67). But notice the thoroughly secular nature of this challenge.

There is no plea for repentance to God such as we find in the Old Testament prophets.

Instead of returning to God we are exhorted to return to the Constitution, the very document by which we rejected the law of God in the first place, making it the “supreme law of the land.
Oliver Woods is a born-again anti-Federalist, whose books and video reveal the secular nature of the U S Constitution at the America Betrayed website. He also is the headmaster at King's Way Classical Academy an online, classical, Christian school for grades 7-1
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