The Law of the Land

"WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, IN ORDER TO FORM A MORE PERFECT UNION, ESTABLISH JUSTICE, INSURE DOMESTIC TRANQUILITY, PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENCE, PROMOTE THE GENERAL WALFARE, AND SECURE THE BLESSINGS OF LIBERTY TO OURSELVES AND OUR POSTERITY, DO ORDAIN AND ESTABLISH THIS CONSTITUTION FOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.”

The enterprise or social experiment that started what the US was and it is still, cannot be considered, at all, as a single race, white, initiative simply because it never was and it cannot be by nature and by requirement.

Yes! The founding fathers were all white, but first: They were legislating to control and develop a land that was originally not theirs. This is a land which was expropriated, at gun point, from its owners; another race of people whom were living a full culture when that expropriation took place; a people that still, now, are on this land living as an excluded native nation.

Those same founding ancestors took advantage of others bringing another race of people, also at gun point, from their distant home lands as slaves, to make them work as free labor for the developing of their businesses and the new nation.

Finally, the founding fathers claimed to be Christians. So, it is more than fair to assume that the opening clause: "We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union", was and is intended to be inclusive to all of those humans participating in any way in the progress of that same Union. Christianity, at least the real Christianity, is inclusive to all humans in reference to the rights of freedom, justice and progress.

Maybe, as it happens still today with many individuals, the founding entrepreneurs of the land were not aware of that implication while writing the constitution, but it is obvious to me and today is more than ever, that this was the real spirit behind that section which can be, even, considered as a prophetic paragraph in relation to the history of the USA.

It is undeniable that the creation of this Union is a work of divine intervention in great extent; the men behind the Constitution believed it and knew it, and through history the evidence has showed that; at least it does to the majority of Americans. And it is important to take this in account, first because the US is a Christian endeavor in its cultural, legal and political origins and second, as a consequence of the first, its Christian nature calls naturally for that being the goal in the long term; precisely that is what is meant to evoke the phrase: “In order to form a more perfect Union”.

There will be those that pursuing their personal interests and point of view will oppose these assertions, but history had, is and will prove them to be wrong. The divine providence in which the founding fathers depended many times has set the USA to be a kind of salvation isle, among the nations of the world, for all of those that will come to its shores looking for the freedom, the justice and the prosperity that are stated in the Constitution as being the rights for all humans entitle by Divine mandate.

It is the call and the honor for this Land, the USA, "to secure the blessing of liberty to ourselves and our posterity"; as the constitution announces it. Two Hundred and twenty three years later, those "ourselves" are still around through their posterity: Us, all the people of the USA; people from all around the earth. And this is the force that has built the Nation we have today and will keep developing and changing toward a more perfect Union in the years to come.