Critical Time For The USA By T.S. Khanna, July 11, 2016

Critical Time For The  USA

T.S. Khanna, July 11, 2016

In the 1770s, when this nation was being established, it was remarked: “Providence has been pleased to give this one connected country to one united people; a people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, very similar in their manners and customs”. Ref. Federalist Papers.

The Constitution adopted with the Bill of Rights had a uniformly perceived meaning.  However, with the passage of time, greater assertion of conflicting interests have been having varied influence on the perception of the same Constitution.

Interests  and challenges have become so different now that there is hardly any analogy to the earlier times.  The principles may be the same, but the disputes on principles have since been envenomed by the vested interests and foreign influences. 

The nation is facing a critical time.

At another critical time in the nation’s history, Abraham Lincoln said that between the hard choices of saving the Constitution or saving the country, he preferred to save the country; by losing the country, both would be lost.  Presently, the nation is in a similar predicament.

Regardless of the party affiliation or political philosophy, this great nation is being called upon to revisit and temporarily suspend some parts of the Constitution: 

·       Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion…

·       A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of the people….