A return to first principles

As long as liberals continue to view the Constitution as a "living" document rather than a fixed document that protects fundamental key rights, namely life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness throughout time, we will continue to witness the growth of big government and the erosion of our personal rights. While liberals firmly believe that the state is the people and the people are the state, big government gets to decide which rights we receive and who is entitled to them namely in the form of social security, medicare, medicaid, prescription drugs for seniors, and now universal health care, if either Clinton or Obama are elected. Now, more than ever, we need to return to first principles, namely the principles outlined in the Declaration of Independence that are supported by the Constitution. A return to first principles clearly advocates that our rights are natural rights or in other words, rights endowed by God that are unalienable; they are not granted or taken away by the government for government. Furthermore, these first principles include the concept of limited government. Americans need to understand that limited government is not weak government. In fact, government does have a role to play in our society whether it be to protect ourselves from each other or to protect ourselves against tyrrany or to protect us against enemey invasion or from terrorists threatening to do us harm, government has a role to play in our society. However, when government itself violates the very basic principles it promises to uphold, there is a fundamental break down of the purpose of government. When government, not the individual, gets to decide the manner in which we live and how we live it, innately we know we must return to first principles: a government limited in size and scope. Electing either Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, who do not support the idea of first principles, clearly would continue the erosion of such inherent rights.