In Our Time

Since the mid-sixties, America saw a shift in it's overall paradigm and character. Some of these shifts may have a direct effect on the U.S. Constitution and how it plays out in our country. Here are a few examples:

• We saw changes in moral life, a sort of rejection of the typical 'family life' to 'doing what one wants'.

• There is a change from the founders' intent of 'consent of the governed', for a new favor of leadership and expertise, and elected leaders acting independently.

• The protection of ' equal rights for all' is morphing into equality of economic situations, political equality, equal recognition of self-esteem. Inequality is accepted as long as it favors the less advantaged.

• In the economic sphere, regulatory capture, intended to monitor corporations, lead to instead administrative state benefiting each other and not the common good.

• Foreign policy changed from the purpose of security of American rights and actions to secure those rights, to the post Cold War management of world affairs without a clear understanding.

Let's be clear, history can't be changed, and there is so much to learn from it. Our founders and their trials and tribulations from their history led to the greatest government the world has ever seen, and the most important document of all time – the U.S. Constitution.

In our time, we are deemed the responsibility for upholding what has been created for us. In any circumstance, we have to look to the U.S. Constitution and be sure that it is being adhered to and not breached in any way.

Can you name an instance where our Constitution is being breached here in Central Oregon?