THE FOUNDERS' WORLDVIEW
AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT
SELF-GOVERNMENT IN SOCIETY
In the United States, the Founders embodied the laws of nature and nature's God as the supreme standard for families living within the nation's boundaries. So long as the members of any particular family observe the absolute standards of the laws of nature and nature's God, no other externally imposed government, including the church or state, has any authority to impose its will upon that family.
The elders, as the governing body of the church, are responsible to God for defining the boundaries within which the members of the Body of Christ are to control their own actions as individuals, family members, church members and members of the local community. Such boundary for action must comply with the laws of nature and nature's God.
Obedience to these absolute standards results in virtue and righteousness in the individual lives within the family, church and state. Again, as long as the church observes such absolute standards and operates in accordance with them, no externally imposed government, such as the state, has any authority to impose its will on the church.
Finally, as applied to the state, unique to our nation, we the people have authority over civil government. Why? Because we the people create civil government to protect the God-given unalienable individual rights granted to each citizen of our nation. We the people, as creator of civil government, have authority over our created work. Therefore, through our representatives, the concept of local self-government is embodied as the prevailing legal relationship between the people and civil government and between the various levels of local, state and federal civil governments.
The Ninth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution states that the rights granted to the Federal government by we the people, "shall not be construed to deny or disparage [other rights] retained by the people." Further, the Tenth Amendment says "[T]he powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." In other words, the Federal government has limited power as expressly defined or necessarily implied by the words of the U.S. Constitution which we the people have granted to protect the legal right of local self-government to we the people.
So long as the various agencies of local, state and federal government adhere to the laws of nature and nature's God the Founders established as the supreme law of the land, we the people will allow them to function. Otherwise, we the people will act to censure, recall, impeach or remove the person or persons responsible for any breach of the supreme law of the land.
Thus, for the various agencies of government to have legal power or ability to act in our unique nation, AUTHORITY is first required. Without such AUTHORITY, there is no legal power to act. In the United States, the laws of nature and nature's God provide the AUTHORITY to act in the life of the individual, family, church and state. If the proposed action is outside the boundary set by the laws of nature and nature's God, then no AUTHORITY exists for that particular action. Each of these governmental agencies are accountable to each other. However, one cannot impose its will onto another unless AUTHORITY to do so exists in the absolute standard set by the Founders; namely, the laws of nature and nature's God.
This explains why we the people of the United States have liberty to a degree no other people on earth enjoy. The Founding Fathers understood this to be the rule of law. Today, after thirty years of learning that no absolutes exist as taught in every public school classroom in our nation, the American Constitutional Republic has been brought to its knees. Our only hope is that this is an act of prayer before the Almighty Creator God and not an act of submission before the pagan throne of Humanism/Atheism that has usurped the place of the laws of nature and nature's God in our midst.
