By state’s rights freedom is maintained, by state’s rights the diversity in our land is recognized, by states rights the citizens play a role in their local government- take it all away and you are left with… big government that will dissolve into tyranny as people vote away their autocracy.  Democracy is, according to Thomas Jefferson, “Nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.”  How does this ensure the freedom of citizens?

Read some of the following quotes by Jefferson.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.

I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

Jefferson clearly saw the dangers, perils, and curses associated with Democracy.  Where are we today?  With the defeat of the South by the North at the conclusion of the civil war, state’s rights were stripped and the Federal government’s role and rank established as supreme to that of state’s.  Since then, slowly but surely, the expansion of the Federal government has been voted in under guise and pretense by politicians hungry for power and willing to vote the citizen’s wealth to those who place them in office.  Once a government steps down the slippery path to socialism and becomes drunk with power, the end of democracy is in sight.  Power in unscrupulous, unrestrained hands will dissolve into mass corruption which will lead to anarchy.

Few today are aware of the realities we are facing in America.  Even fewer, recognize the end result of our current path.  The government is not the answer to our problems.  Jesus is.  If the church in the United States was alive, vibrant, and leading the way in government policy and action, we could still apply the categorization “A Christian Nation” to our country.  Today, America is anything but Christian and is progressing down the godless path toward socialism and the destruction of all we hold sacred, namely – life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Erik Brown