Protests Should Be For Something

Americans believe the government in Washington is a national government and unless they rid their minds of this false belief there is little hope for the expansion of our freedoms.. The nationalists now entering the most important offices in Washington will be quite happy to use their power  by ruling us as though their political powers are national. We should not help reinforce their power by believing that meaningful political actions can take place only nationally. Under the Constitution, the Federal Government is granted full sovereign powers only when dealing with foreign states. It never enjoys unlimited sovereignty when dealing domestically with Americans. The million women protesters that may come to Washington in January to publicly demand their rights should be careful that they do not demand them from a government that is not national, not a state, not located in a state, and has no power in itself to either give them rights or take them away. If the Federal Government is a fully sovereign government of our nation, then it would have the power to marry us Americans and also to deny us same-sex marriages. It has no power to marry anyone and it was certainly not granted by the Constitution any power over men and women’s bodies. The Federal Government was granted no power over slavery. Some sovereign states made slavery illegal in their states and it took an amendment to the Constitution to make it illegal in all our states. The Supreme Court of Massachusetts declared in 2004 that the state did not have the right to deny marriage to same-sex couples. Marriage is a state business exclusively. Democratic protest is a good thing but if it is protest only against an American president elected legally under the laws that make us a firm and secure union of states ruled by a Constitution it is bad. Protests should be for something. Read the Constitution and you will find there plenty of things that you should demand that the Federal Government do. We owe unflinching loyalty to the Federal Government no matter who is president and it owes us the same degree of loyalty by unflinching obedience to the Constitution. But neither the Constitution nor the rights of states will protect us from new leaders in Washington bent on using their victory in Donald Trump’s election to act unconstitutionally. Only protests and actions by men and women guided by the Constitution and states’ rights can do that.

Daniel McNeill

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