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The
Framework of the US Constitution - Revealed
Debra J.M. Smith
The
Constitution of the United States of America is accurately
written in all points. There is nothing in it that is not
there for a reason, that is not written intelligently, that is
not precisely presented. So why is it that numerous laws and
court rulings have been based upon claims of
penumbras (gray
areas) existing in our Constitution?
How much easier it would be to hold our
government to the true contextual meanings of the contents of
our Constitution if our founding fathers had declared a
framework for it! Yes, it surely would be if such were still
acknowledged. As it turns out, there is a framework to our
Constitution; it simply has been ‘overlooked’ for some
time.
In
the closing paragraph just before the signatures, the US
Constitution states, “Done
in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present
the seventeenth day of September in the year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven and of the
independence of the United States of America the twelfth. In
witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our
names.”
Notice
the prepositional phrase of the independence of the
United States of America the twelfth. When a
prepositional phrase is joined to the rest of the sentence
with the conjunction and,
the little word and
does
an amazing thing. It joins that prepositional
phrase with another prepositional phrase within the
sentence, making it of equal value contextually and parallel
to the other phrase in the
writing.
When I broke the first sentence up
into two complete thoughts, which it holds, I was
then able to see both clearly. Just read the highlighted part of
the closing paragraph and you
will see the truth of our great nation, revealed. You
will see the prepositional phrase, of the independence of
the United States of America the twelfth, in its “full
thought.” Then go back and read the entire paragraph to
see how it fits together in the full contextual meaning of the
sentence.
“Done
in convention by the unanimous consent of the states present
the seventeenth day of September in the year of our
Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven and
of the independence of the United States of America
the twelfth. In witness whereof we have hereunto
subscribed our names.” ---- We
were in the 12th year of our independence.
The
prepositional phrase is joined with the calendar year. This
makes it of equal value contextually and parallel to the
calendar year in the Constitution. With such, please consider
the following:
1) The
calendar date of the signing shows the time span of the
contract. The Constitution has a “beginning date”; there is no
“ending date.” ----In the year of the independence of the
United States of America the twelfth shows another
specific time frame that is specified on the contract with a
“beginning date” and no “ending date.”
2) In
the year of our Lord
specifies a time that 1787 is in; and it holds
foundational beliefs and truths of that time, which we are
still in. ---- In the year of the
independence of the United States of
America
specifies
a time that the twelfth is in; and it holds
foundational beliefs and truths of that time, which we are
still in.
Let’s
look at the parallelism of these two
phrases:
The closing paragraph has contained within it two phrases. To
be read grammatically correctly, the reader needs to see them
equal in contextual value and parallel to one-another. The
latter phrase was not needed on a contract to make the
contract legal; but, because of where it was placed, it
became equal in worth to the contract as the first, making it
also of equal legal binding worth. (A contract is not legally
binding without a calendar date.)
The phrase in the year of our Lord is a time of a
covenant between The Lord and the church, a time that The
Lord’s church is in; it holds truths that her people (the
church’s people) live by and are to adhere to, which are found
in The Word of God. Hence, the phrase in the year of
the
independence of the United States of America is
a time of a covenant between the United States of America and
Americans, a time that America is in; it holds truths that her
people live by and are to adhere to, which are found in The
Declaration of Independence.
Yes, there is a framework to the US Constitution that all laws
in America are subject to, a framework that gives specific
boundaries to: a) her laws and b) to the interpretations of
those laws. That framework is the truths found in The
Declaration of Independence. And our nation needs to respect
that framework, as well as all that which is within it, and
keep it in high regard. We call this
patriotism.
“…Every
kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and a
house divided against a house falleth.”
It is time that our government stops overlooking the framework
of our Constitution or The United States of America will
surely fall.
To view an: Authentic
Reproduction of the US Constitution,
from - The National Archives Experience
Washington,
DC
Learn
about our Declaration of Independence: Click
Here
By Earl Taylor, Jr., of the "National
Center for Constitutional
Studies."
©
Copyright 2006 - 2009 Debra J.M. Smith Original
Date --June 27,
2006
The Grounded Eagle Needs to Soar
Again.
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