Greetings!
Our Honor the Constitution! rally is only a few days away. Please remember it will happen at the southeast corner of Big Beaver and Coolidge in front of Somerset Mall in Troy, Michigan. Our rally on February 27th will begin at 2 p.m. and continue until 4:00 p.m. Please park in one of the parking garages behind the stores.
As I look out my window this morning I see a beautiful scene of snow gently falling from the skies. Regardless of the forecast for Saturday, come out to the southeast corner of Big Beaver and Coolidge in front of Somerset Mall in Troy, Michigan. It is the least we can do to honor not only the Constitution, but the memory of those who overwintered at Valley Forge. They committed themselves, and not just their fortunes and sacred honor, but their very lives. They were not summer soldiers or sunshine patriots. The same speaks for all of those who have sacrificed for our country.
I have been reading about what the Founding Fathers called "public virtue". Franklin wrote that:
Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.
George Washington later said that the American Constitution "...was the palladium of human rights", but noted that it could only survive as "...long as there shall remain any virtue in the body of the people".
Gordon S. Wood defined public virtue as follows:
In a Republic, however, each man must somehow be persuaded to submerge his/her personal wants into the greater good of the whole. This willingness of the individual to sacrifice his private interest for the good of the community--such patriotrism or love of country--the eighteenth century termed public virtue... the eighteenth century mind was thouroughly convinced that a popularly based government "cannot be supported without virtue".
W. Cleon Skousen then observes that, "Virtue has to be earned, and has to be learned. Neither is virtue a permanent quality in human nature. It has to be cultivated continually and exercised from hour to hour and from day to day..." In saying this, he declares we as citizens are responsible for the daily care of our country. Participating in a rally is an example of an exercise that permits us to earn our virtue. This means that we regulary exercise our Constitutional Rights, and Saturday we will be doing just that, as we will peaceably assemble to and to petition the Government for a redress of our greivances. Let us declare that we will not let our Constitutional Rights disappear in the night. Let us leave the comfort of our houses and get out to let our elected officials know that we expect them to
Honor the Constitution!
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