The U.S. Constitution was approved and signed on this day in 1787. It reflects the will of a people who wanted to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

Its creation was a landmark event, putting the government at the behest of the people and not the other way around.

Yet, the beauty of such a relationship is seemingly lost on so many of us.

Many Americans sit idly by as our government:

1) involves itself in undeclared and, therefore, unconstitutional wars;

2) allows a private corporation, the Federal Reserve, to print paper money at will — the inflation taxi — and do so at interest, currently at nearly $10,000,000,000,000;

3) in 2006 passed the Military Commissions Act, which did away with ihabeas corpus, the fundamental and Constitutional right that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment;

4) regularly violates the 10th amendment of the Constitution, The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the sStates respectively, or to the people with the departments of education, agriculture, housing and urban development, etc.

Please, take time today to reacquaint yourself with the Constitution, Bill of Rights and other relevant freedom documents at www.constitution.org.

Let’s get back to what made America great.

Brian Sanburn,

Owatonna