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Constitutional Patriots

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Anthony Wells

 

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 Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” The Constitution of the United States of America.

 

How would you define an extremist? To me, an extremist must be a person who takes a view or belief excessively beyond the commonly held position. In politics, both liberals and conservatives lob the term back and forth. And like everything else, they muck up the meaning of word. It stands to reason then that there must be a putative position. For our country, the standard is (or should be) built upon the ideas embodied in the Declaration of Independence and Constitution. So who then is the extremist? Is it the person who believes in the principles of the Constitution? Or is the person who seeks to corrupt and pervert those principles?