GP Academy Letter 250906: The Constitution, Read It If You Dare...

Dear Friends,

Did you know that no other country on Earth currently has a document like this—an actual written rule book that limits what the government can do, and that guarantees to protect your rights?

Did you know that countless people have lost their families, their entire fortunes, even shed their blood to create this document just for you?

That makes it pretty important, wouldn’t you agree?

Which means it would probably be a pretty good idea to read it… yes?

Did you know the average person could read the entire Constitution in 15 minutes flat?

The average TV show has 15 minutes of commercials in a single hour.

Just think, you could skip the commercials and read the Constitution instead.

Especially the juicy parts, like where it says the states can't use anything but gold and silver as real money.

Well, we haven't had that since the 1970s.

Gosh, it seems like maybe your great grandparents never read the Constitution, or surely they would never have put up with that... would they?

Or how about where it says that we can only go to war when the Congress approves?

Well, we haven't had that since World War II.

I guess your grandparents never read the Constitution either… so sad!

And there's nothing in there about the president giving billions of dollars of taxpayer money away each year in “foreign aid.”

What’s not to like?

Do you think it's possible that if millions of Americans living today actually read the Constitution, we wouldn't have nearly as many problems as we now do?

But wait a minute, surely everyone must read the Constitution in public school, right?

I don't mean to discuss it in reverent terms or gaze at it lovingly, but actually read it?

You say you didn't do that in public school?

That's funny.

Come to think of it, I didn't read the Constitution in public school either and that was a long time ago.

It seems like this not reading the Constitution in public school thing has been going on for quite a while now.

Do you suppose it’s because there are some pretty strong words in there about protecting our rights as citizens against the government ever taking them away from us?

Presidents raise their right hand, place their left hand on the Bible, and swear to defend the Constitution.

But have they ever read it?

I guess not.

Otherwise why would they keep saying they want to make the whole world safe for “democracy,” when the Constitution guarantees us a republic, and every democracy in human history has collapsed into tyranny?

That's right, boys and girls, every democracy that ever existed finally failed when its people began fighting over their ‘fair share’ of the public treasury.

Just like little birds in a nest, all craning their necks when momma brings home the worm.

People who are more interested in their goodies than their rights keep electing politicians who will promise them anything to get their vote.

Since there isn't enough money to spread around to make everybody happy in a democracy, the government has to keep printing it.

Tax and spend, promise and print, eventually the whole thing falls apart.

Eventually, when democracies begin to fail, a supreme leader appears—maybe even a billionaire!—who says he'll take care of everyone if you'll only follow him out of the crisis.

And you're back to having your very own monarch wannabe all over again.

If you listen closely, you can hear America's founders just-a-rotatin’ in their graves.