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The State of the Union address was meant as one of the checks and balances between the executive and legislative branches. Every other president has been respectful of the other branches during the annual address—except for this president.

Amy Lutz of the blog, The Young Federalist, guest posts at WWTFT. Ignorance might be bliss in the short run, but enables tyranny in the long term. If we are ever to stop the ever over-reaching authority of the federal government from expanding exponentially, we must first look at ourselves. Americans must wield the power of knowledge and use it to prevent intellectual servitude.

The Founders believed that the Constitution was a legally binding agreement between Americans and their government. Here are some quotes contrasting the views of some of the document’s framers with that of some politicos of more recent times.

Concentrated political power frightened the Founders. They believed that only by limiting government could liberty survive the natural tendency of man to dictate the habits of other men. The balanced separation of power with checks was designed to prevent tyranny.

The first outsized words of the Constitution read We the People. It’s our document. It was always meant to be ours, not the government’s. It is each and every American’s obligation to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.

In the first of our Constitution Day (week) posts, Jim looks at the speed bumps specified by the nation’s charter document to restrain government.

James takes a look at what the newly media-proclaimed “expert” (Richard Stengel) on the Constitution has to say in the most recent edition of Time magazine. (Note, Stengel’s no expert, his article is rife with errors and his ideology leaks through all over it.)

Whose government is it anyway? The first words of the Constitution refer to “We the People” as the source of government and the Founders went to great lengths to limit the power that government could exercise in our name. But somewhere between then and now something went terribly wrong.

We know a lot about what the Founders thought and the philosophical views they had because of their prolific letter writing and extensive chronicling of events. Those who dig into this wealth of material will begin to understand what set them apart and what the founding principles really were.

A new “old” book reviewed. Life of Washington is a concise biography/history/Sunday School curriculum.