tyrant character …
unfit to be the ruler
of a free people
Adapted from the line written by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of the Independence that reads, “A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”
So how do we define tyrant?
The online Merriam Webster says simply: an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution.
Who would have ever thought that this country would live long enough to have the Supreme Court of the United States rule that the Office of the President of the United States was now deemed to BE an absolute ruler unrestrained by law or constitution.
I don’t know about you but those words Mr. Jefferson wrote, that expressed the reasons for the Declaration sent a chill down my spine.
Henry Louis Mencken said back on July 26, 1920, that “As democracy is perfected, the office [of president] represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people.”
Don’t folks realize this is what 1776 was all about.
They say the courts move to establish the original intent of the founding fathers.
Can’t get much more original than the Declaration of Independence that all those Founding Fathers signed.
And they signed a statement that said that all American’s were equal, restrained by law and by constitution.
And if someone would not, could not be restrained by law and by constitution, then that person was unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Could that be more clear?
Yet …
We doing it too ourselves and over this 4th of July we should know that.
As Mr. Mencken continued, “We move towards a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
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