It's a government for the people, by the people, of the people. Just to help you out. Representative government...so until such time as they are willing to change...it is what it is.
LJS9502_basic
True and false. The government has to be true to the people it represents but also to the founding principles which govern the nation. If by some measure tyrants ever held the majority, the US is contructed to never under any circumstances violate its charters and principles. This is the very reason you have such documents as the Bill of Rights.
It is the worlds first and only nation to be founded from the very beginning on secular ideals, a compact between the religious and non-religious for the tenets of liberty and freedom.
"[When] the [Virginia] bill for establishing religious freedom ... was finally passed, ... a singular proposition proved that its protection of opinion was meant to be universal. Where the preamble declares that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed, by inserting the word "Jesus Christ," so that it should read "a departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion." The insertion was rejected by a great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend within the mantle of its protection the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mahometan, the Hindoo and infidel of every denomination.
-- Thomas Jefferson, Autobiography, 1821"
This goes to show that all this Christian-mongering, though present in those days as well, is not the foundation for the United States. The US is founded on those pieces of paper left by such people, and to be expounded upon by people that are so similarly enlightened.
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