You Might Be A Constitutionalist If . . .

by Chuck Baldwin: [Excerpt] . . . I am absolutely convinced that without a renewed allegiance to constitutional government and State sovereignty, there can be no resolution to America's current slide into socialism and oppression. Therefore, it is critical that we cast aside our infatuation with partisan politics and steadfastly stand firm for the principles of federalism and freedom, as did America's founders.

Might you be a modern-day Minuteman who understands the principles of freedom and federalism? I offer the following test. Read it and see if you, too, are a Constitutionalist. (Yes, Martha, this is another Jeff Foxworthy spin-off.)

1. You might be a Constitutionalist if you believe that every congressman, senator, President, and Supreme Court justice is required to obey the U.S. Constitution.
2. [. . .] you believe that before the United States invades and occupies another country, Congress must first declare war.
3. [. . .] you believe the federal government should live within its means, like everyone else is forced to do.
4. [. . .] you think that taking away people's liberties in the name of security is not patriotic, nor does it make the country more secure.
5. [. . .] you would like to see politicians be forced to abide by the same laws they make everyone else submit to.
6. [. . .] you understand that we have three "separate but equal" branches of government that are supposed to hold each other in check and balance.
7. [. . .] you believe that the federal government has no authority to be involved in education or law enforcement, or in any other issue that the Tenth Amendment reserves to the States, or to the People.
8. [. . .] you believe that gun control laws do nothing but aid and abet criminals while trampling the rights and freedoms of law-abiding citizens.
9. [. . .] you believe that the income tax is both unconstitutional and immoral, and, along with the I.R.S. and the Federal Reserve, should be abolished.
10. [. . .] you believe the federal government had no authority to tell former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore that he could not display a monument containing the Ten Commandments in the Alabama Judicial Building in Montgomery; or to tell a Pace, Florida, high school principal that he could not pray before a meal.
11. [. . .] you believe that Congress or the White House or any sovereign State is not required to submit to unconstitutional Supreme Court rulings.
12. [. . .] you understand that freedom has nothing in common with illegal immigration.
13. [. . .] you understand that outsourcing American jobs overseas is not good for America.
14. [. . .] you believe that the United States should get out of the United Nations and get the United Nations out of the United States.
15. [. . .] you believe that it is not unconstitutional for children in public schools to pray or read the Bible.
16. [. . .] you believe that the Boy Scouts are not a threat to America.
17. [. . .] you believe that the federal government should honor its commitments to America's veterans and stop using U.S. military personnel as guinea pigs for testing drugs and chemicals.
18. [. . .] you believe that U.S. troops should never serve under foreign commanders or wear the uniform or insignia of the United Nations, and that they must never submit to illegal orders, such as turning their weapons against American citizens, or confiscating the guns of U.S. citizens.
19. [. . .] you believe that the federal government has no business bribing churches and faith-based organizations with federal tax dollars.
20. [. . .] you believe that federal agents who murder American citizens should be held to the same laws and punishments that any other citizen would be held to. (Can anyone say, "Waco" and "Ruby Ridge"?)
21. [. . .] you understand that NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and the FTAA (and similar agreements) are disastrous compromises of America's national sovereignty and independence.
22. [. . .] you would like to see congressmen and senators be required to actually read a bill before passing it into law.
23. [. . .] you understand that it is the job of government to protect and secure God-given rights, not use its power to take those rights away.
24. [. . .] you understand that there is nothing unconstitutional about the public acknowledgement of God and our Christian heritage.
25. [. . .] you believe that government bailouts and "stimulus" expenditures defy virtually every principle of free enterprise and are a flagrant leap into socialism.
26. [. . .] you believe that airport screeners have no business touching women's breasts, using sophisticated machinery to look through passengers' clothing to see their naked bodies, confiscating fingernail clippers, or denying pilots from carrying handguns.
27. [. . .] you believe that many public schools' "zero-tolerance" policies are just plain stupid.
28. [. . .] you believe that parents have a right to homeschool their children.
29. [. . .] you believe that governmental seizure of private property is plain, old-fashioned thievery.
30. [. . .] you are personally determined to not submit to any kind of forced vaccination.
31. [. . .] you oppose any kind of national health insurance.
32. [. . .] you believe that U.S. troops are not the world's policemen, that they are not "nation-builders," and that their purpose is only to defend American lives and property, not to be the enforcement arm of international commercial interests or global elitists.
33. [. . .] you understand that the county Sheriff is the highest law enforcement officer of his district and that federal law enforcement (much of which is unconstitutionally organized, anyway) is obligated to submit to his authority.
34. [. . .] you are determined to oppose America's merger with any kind of regional, hemispheric, or international government, such as the North American Union.
35. [. . .] you oppose sending billions of taxpayer dollars as foreign aid; the U.S. State Department meddling into the private affairs of foreign countries; and ubiquitous foreign entanglements that require vast sums of money, create animosity and hostility towards us, and expose us to foreign wars and conflicts in which we have no national interest.
36. [. . .] you would like to meet one single congressman or senator besides Ron Paul who acts as if he or she has ever read the U.S. Constitution.

Well, how did you fare? Are you a Constitutionalist? If so, your country desperately needs you to stand up and fight for freedom's principles before they are forever taken from us. This means never again voting for anyone--from any party--who will not preserve, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution. So, don't just take the test; make the pledge!

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