The Constitutional Imperative for Absolute Abolition at America’s 250th Year

I. THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE CREATOR AND THE DELUSION OF REPUBLICS

America stands at a catastrophic precipice as she prepares to mark 250 years of independent existence. We plan to ignite fireworks, display banners, and chant hollow anthems of liberty. Yet, a silent, pervasive, and terrifying blood guilt saturates the very soil of our continent.

National survival is never a guarantee forged by military hardware, fiscal policy, or political legacy; it is a spiritual lease granted strictly by Almighty God. We have forgotten the foundational premise of our national existence—that our rights are a direct endowment from the Creator. Jefferson famously trembled for his country when reflecting that God is just and that His justice cannot sleep forever. Today, that divine justice hangs like a sharpened blade over a nation that has codified the slaughter of its offspring.

Scripture leaves no room for ambiguity regarding the status of the unborn child or the consequences of hands that shed innocent blood:

“Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee…” (Jeremiah 1:5).

“These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood…” (Proverbs 6:16-17).

We cannot mock the living God by celebrating two and a half centuries of “liberty” while maintaining a state-sanctioned network of human dismemberment. True national survival requires an immediate, unconditional cessation of this wickedness. It requires national repentance.

II. THE FOUNDATIONAL WARNINGS OF THE FRAMERS

Our founders possessed an unyielding clarity regarding the moral framework required to sustain a free republic. They understood that liberty divorced from the moral law of God rapidly degenerates into anarchy and tyranny.

John Adams, writing to the military in 1798, issued a warning that pierces through to our current generation with prophetic precision:

“We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

When a nation codifies the destruction of its own children, it destroys its claim to be a moral people. We break the very cords of the Constitution. Similarly, Samuel Adams reminded his contemporaries of the true source of national security:

“He therefore is the truest friend to the liberty of his country who tries most to promote its virtue, and who, so far as his power and influence extend, will not suffer a man to be chosen into any office of power and trust who is not a wise and virtuous man.”

To elect leaders who permit, fund, or defend the killing of the pre-born is an act of political treason against the Republic. Furthermore, George Washington, in his timeless Farewell Address, explicitly dismantled the secular fiction that a nation can remain prosperous while discarding divine commands:

“Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.”

By slaughtering the unborn, America has systematically kicked out the indispensable supports of her own house. We are witnessing the structural collapse that Washington foretold.

III. THE SUPREMACY OF NATURAL LAW VS. THE TYRANNY OF THE STATE

The political establishment treats the right to life as a negotiable policy plank, a fundraising tool, or a matter of shifting consensus. This is a fatal apostasy. The right to life does not originate in legislative chambers, judicial robes, or the popular ballot.

Sir William Blackstone, whose legal treatises formed the bedrock of American jurisprudence, made this explicitly clear in his Commentaries on the Laws of England:

“Life is the immediate gift of God, a right inherent by nature in every individual; and it begins in contemplation of law as soon as an infant is able to stir in the mother’s womb… For any defense, use, or action, which a stranger is capable of doing to the infant as an embryo in the womb, is justifiable by the law.”

When civil government presumes to license the destruction of innocent human life, it abdicates its legitimate authority and degenerates into an illicit cartel. Any human edict that contradicts the immutable moral law of God is not law at all; it is a raw act of lawless tyranny. We have traded the eternal rock of absolute truth for the shifting sands of judicial supremacy and legislative pragmatism. To compromise on the absolute duty to protect every unborn child—from the absolute moment of biological conception—is an act of open insurrection against the Ruler of the Nations.

IV. THE ONTOLOGY OF CONSTITUTIONAL PERSONHOOD

The crux of our constitutional degradation lies in the willful, textually fraudulent denial of the personhood of the pre-born child. Secular jurists and compromised politicians have asserted that the word “person” is a flexible, political construct to be defined by legislative caprice or judicial fiat. This is a profound subversion of both language and original intent.

When the framers of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments utilized the term “person,” they did not use it as a political honorific reserved only for those who have drawn breath. They used it as a direct legal synonym for a living human being.

To understand the absolute, unyielding definition of personhood, we must return to Blackstone, who explicitly divided the subjects of law into “natural persons” and “artificial persons.” A natural person is not created by the state; a natural person is created by God. Blackstone wrote:

“Natural persons are such as the God of nature fashioned us…”

This definition was universally understood by the authors of the Fourteenth Amendment. During the congressional debates of 1866, the sponsors of the amendment repeatedly declared that its purpose was to secure the absolute, foundational rights of humanity to every individual who possesses a human nature. To be a human being is to be a person.

The pre-born child is a distinct, living, whole human individual from the moment of fertilization. They possess a unique genetic architecture. They possess a heartbeat. They possess a soul. To argue that a human child is not a “person” under the law until they reach a certain stage of development or location is to resurrect the exact demonic logic of the Dred Scott decision, which sought to strip personhood from an entire class of human beings based on their status and utility.

V. THE COMPLICITY OF INCREMENTALISM AND THE TWOFOLD CONSTITUTIONAL BULWARK

The greatest failure of the modern conservative movement has been its addiction to incrementalism, regulatory compromise, and the cowardice of the “states’ rights” retreat. We have been told to settle for regulations that merely manage the slaughter rather than abolish it. We have been urged to accept exceptions, to compromise with evil, and to remain silent for tactical electoral advantage.

This political pragmatism is an abomination. You cannot regulate murder. You cannot negotiate terms with the shedding of innocent blood. To assert that a child’s right to live depends on the geographic boundary of a state or the circumstances of conception is a total betrayal of both the Christian faith and the American Republic.

The supreme law of the land provides an explicit, dual-layered barrier against this slaughter:

• The Fifth Amendment: Explicitly decrees that no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Because the pre-born child is a natural person fashioned by God, their deprivation of life by abortion is a direct violation of this sacred restriction on federal power.
• The Fourteenth Amendment: Commands that no State shall “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Therefore, any politician, judge, governor, or President who refuses to demand the immediate, total, and equal protection of the law for the unborn child is violating their solemn oath of office. They are acting in direct defiance of the Constitution they swore to defend. If the law protects the born adult from murder, the Fourteenth Amendment demands it must equally protect the pre-born child. Anything less is a declaration of lawlessness.

VI. THE LINCOLNIAN PRECEDENT: THE FRUITS OF MORAL COMPROMISE

We must look to our past to understand the precise nature of our current peril. President Abraham Lincoln, standing on the blood-soaked ground of Gettysburg, recalled that our nation was:

“…conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

Lincoln understood with terrifying clarity that a nation cannot long endure if it attempts to institutionalize the denial of God-given personhood. In his Second Inaugural Address, as the fields of America ran red with the blood of her own sons, Lincoln acknowledged the terrible, righteous judgments of the Almighty:

“Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said ‘the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether.'”

If God exacted such a terrible price for the sin of human bondage, what will He demand from a nation that has sacrificed tens of millions of its own children upon the altar of secular convenience? The timeline is chillingly parallel. We are arriving at our own “two hundred and fifty years.” If we do not repent of this national holocaust, we cannot escape the matching fury of a just and holy God.

VII. A PROPHECY TO THE PULPITS: AN UNCOMPROMISING REMNANT

The primary blame for America’s advanced moral decay does not rest in the halls of secular governance, but in the pulpits of our churches. Too many pastors have traded the prophetic, unyielding Word of God for political access, social acceptance, and tax-exempt comfort. They have remained silent while the defenseless are led to the slaughter, completely forgetting that judgment begins at the house of God.

National survival requires an uncompromising remnant to rise. We must demand nothing less than the total, immediate, and unconditional abolition of human abortion. We must hold our leaders to a strict standard of biblical righteousness and constitutional fidelity.

If our current political parties, legislative bodies, and judicial systems refuse to uphold the primary purpose of government—which is the security of the God-given right to life—then those structures have lost their moral legitimacy. They must be peacefully, legally, but completely bypassed and replaced by men and women of unyielding principle.

VIII. THE MANDATE FOR THE NEXT CENTURY

As the clock ticks toward our 250th year, the choice before America is stark: Total Abolition or Total Destruction.

We cannot continue to butcher our posterity and expect to remain a free, prosperous, and secure people. God will not be mocked. True patriotism is not found in blind allegiance to a corrupted political apparatus, but in an unshakeable allegiance to truth, justice, and the supreme law of God.

Let us mark this historic milestone not with hollow boasts of liberty, but with sackcloth, ashes, and an unwavering commitment to restore the foundational right to life for every single image-bearer of God. Only then can we look to the future, praying that God might yet grant our land mercy, revival, and survival.

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Travis is a dedicated constitutional abolitionist who was the FMR lead editor of the Peace Through Strength Institute.

Globalism – Ecumenism

(A repost from 2012 that still applies today)

It’s very easy to be labeled a ‘doom and gloomer’ these days for simply reporting the facts. “But facts are a stubborn thing”, John Adams once said.

Seemingly simple problems for nations to solve often come with extremely complex strings attached. The United States is addicted to spending money. What does one do if they are neck deep in debt? Well, for starters, you stop spending so much money. The muddy waters part is where to stop spending and which programs you’re going to cut to actually make a difference.

The United States’ purse strings are ultimately being pulled in two different directions between the far left and the far right. Each side has their sacred cows they refuse to touch, and will only do so at an excruciatingly high cost to the other side. I realize I’m staying pretty vague here, but my intent is to show you the forest and the trees, seeing the picture as a whole rather than just individual issues.

Our system has three legs of power that constitute the operational managers of a system of systems. The controlling authority being an architectural contract created by the founding fathers of this nation 236 [now 250] years ago. The basic premise is that man does not guarantee our rights; God does. The three branches of government act to serve as a check and balance against themselves, to prevent any one from becoming too powerful. So let us do a quick review over how that is going thus far.

The Trees

One branch has the responsibility to execute the duties of leadership and enact the laws and powers granted to it by a bicameral congressional legislative body. It has worked around the legislative body by creating a small army of un-elected techno/bureau-crats. It has ignored or bypassed the legislation to initiate warfare, emplace unconstitutional bureaucratic legislation (mandatory healthcare), and refused to enforce the laws that are already in place.

The other branch entrusted with creating the laws and controlling spending can’t because it remains too entrenched in the pockets of special interest groups. The handful of actual, honest, and trustworthy ones have a difficult time getting anything passed either by committee or through House votes due to the divisiveness of the interests represented there. Both houses recognize the dire dilemma we are in financially, but can’t even agree on meaningful steps toward achieving that goal.

The last branch acts as the legal authority that enforces the laws of the land as an ultimate last resort of legal interpretation of the architecture, otherwise known as the Constitution. The problem with this branch is that lifetime appointments that were meant as a safeguard against knee-jerk movements of the political climate of any given decade also mean that they become defenders of their interpretation, which we have to live with for most of our lives. Appointments, whether right or left, have long-term ramifications.

And to think we have the best system on Earth? The problem with our system is that man is running it. Man is flawed and sinful, therefore, unable by default to ever have a system that actually functions as it should for any longer than a brief period of time.

The Forest

Geo-political strategists often use terms like ‘red line’ or ‘point of no return’ to signal events that, once they happen, can’t be undone. Like the proverbial bell that cannot be ‘unrung’, so too are the ‘red-lines’ that once crossed forever change the geo-political landscape. We (U.S.) have crossed that economic ‘red line’ some time ago. We have put ourselves in such a financially distressing position that most politicians and talking head pundits would rather discuss things from a hole in the sand than deal with them honestly. Those who are honest are labeled ‘alarmists.’ Is it alarmist to yell ‘fire’ in a theater if it is actually on fire?

We have crossed that economic ‘red line’ and have no other recourse than to radically and fundamentally change the way we function as an economy. It has to change because there simply is no other way around the magnitude of unsustainable debt we’ve accumulated. There are not enough years left on the planet to pay off what we owe, and by the way, we are not alone.

Budget cuts and austere fiscal measures are about as popular here as they are in places like Greece, London, and Spain. The choice will become: do we as a society agree to reduce the quality of life here in the good ol’ US of A, or do we keep things as they are and go to a new system? I think, overwhelmingly, most people will willingly authorize the use of another currency or system to keep welfare, Medicare, Medicaid, and subsidies rather than lose all of them. Why? Because people still need to eat, see the doctor, and help pay the bills. People still need paychecks to own cars, put roofs over their heads, and put their kids through school.

So we are at loggerheads as a nation in that we have reached that point of both having unsustainable debt and an unwillingness to change our ways. Something will have to give, and I’m willing to bet that tweaking the Constitution is going to be sold as the least painful option. And once we go to a global currency (whatever that looks like), we will no longer control our nation.

Don’t believe me that we are that close to doing it? Look at the chaos the world is currently enduring: a promising nuclear and genocidal Iran, a hermit nuclear nation run by a 29-year-old, a burgeoning Russia and China, suicidal and maniacal jihadists, and 35 other armed conflicts currently ongoing in the world today, and we want to SHRINK our military? We want to reduce the means by which we have to defend ourselves. Things must be a lot worse than anyone can imagine.

The big picture is that America is at that point where it is now willing to trade autonomy for security. Soon, we will be no different than Greece or Italy. We just have the best military right now, which is why no one is forcing our hand at the moment. But there is coming a day when all of our military might will not be able to stop the forces seeking to force us to become subservient in our role as the big stick in someone else’s hand. The wealth, power, and might of the US will come to naught pretty soon, and everything people have worked and slaved away for all their lives will seem rather irrelevant in the months and years to come.

Silver Lining

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Matthew 6:19-21).

Where is your treasure laid up? Is it in the next Ronald Reagan? Gold and silver? A 401K with stock options? This age is coming rapidly to a close. Our current system is unraveling faster and faster, and if you’ve placed your faith and trust in your own ability to provide a long, comfortable life, you’re going to be disappointed.

Satan can see the storm clouds gathering, so he’s instituting his plans with greater swiftness and ferocity. The fact that we are becoming irrelevant is only relevant as it pertains to how close we are to the end of this dispensation. It is becoming more and more apparent that the US will not have some kind of massive revival and repent as a nation again.

There is a reason why the Bible makes no mention of a great nation in the West in the last days. Regardless of how it happens, something does. We are, as a nation, buckling under our own weight. At this point, super-committees and last-minute budget deals are as meaningful as rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16).

The silver lining is that salvation is yours for the asking. You need only place your faith in Jesus Christ to change your life and your eternal destiny forever. Oh, and some sound spiritual advice is that you shouldn’t wait too long either. Because His return is a lot sooner than you think.

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