The topic of
discussion for this Constitution Monday is what a Trump presidency means for
the Constitution and the conservative movement. Jim DeMint, president of The Heritage Foundation, says that the election of Donald Trump “may have preserved our constitutional
republic.” He continued, “We know the intent of [Mrs.] Clinton, and she talked
a lot about it and what her belief was of the Constitution. And we know Donald
Trump has talked about the importance of the Constitution and the list of
Supreme Court justices that he released gave us at least some positive
indication… to carry out the original intent of the Constitution.”
The Heritage Foundation recently
convened a panel of experts “to examine what a Donald Trump presidency will
mean for the Constitution and conservatism as a whole.” They discussed the
importance of Trump selecting new justices on the Supreme Court. Jonah
Goldberg, a senior editor at National Review and fellow at the American
Enterprise Institute, stated his belief of numerous defenders of the
Constitution. “It infuriates me how we have come to the point of where we think
the Supreme Court is the only guardian of the Constitution…. [The Supreme
Court] is a guardian of the Constitution, and in certain formalistic
situations, it is the last guardian of the Constitution. But anyone who swears
an oath to uphold the Constitution is a guardian of the Constitution, and, the
citizens from whom the Constitution derives its authority are guardians of the
Constitution.” He says that American citizens should “see themselves as the
first line of defense when it comes to preserving constitutional principles.”
In order for American citizens
to defend the Constitution, we must know what the Constitution says. In order
to know what is in the Constitution, we must study it. You can download a copy of the Constitution at this site. I encourage you to do so and study what the Constitution says in order to be
prepared the next time you have an opportunity to defend it.
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