Government Grants You No Rights

Most Americans think the government grants rights to the people.  In our book Vigilance The Price of Liberty our survey asked what rights are granted by the Constitution?  Responses included the right of speech and religion.  But the Constitution grants no rights.  Surprised?  For example the often misquoted 1st Amendment is referred to as the right of freedom of speech but this Amendment actually reads “Congress shall pass no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech”.  Notice it grants no right to speech but protects the right of speech from . . . the government taking such right from the people.

As we further explain in our book “Our American government is based on the people granting power to the government…The Constitution perfectly specifies that only the people can expand the power of government.” As such, the Constitution is the “rule book” for our process of government, and to secure our liberties we must know the rules or we will be deposed of our liberties.

The Constitution is a simple document and, in essence, there are 18 sentences that define the power of government.  The problem is that we have not read the Constitution so politicians take all they can get away with.  This has led to the unchecked expansion of government and the unsustainable accumulation of debt and liabilities.

Vigilance The Price of Liberty provides a working knowledge of the Constitution and you can find links to the Constitution as well as other important documents on our website www.usvigilance.com as well as buy our book and join the march to “Be Vigilant Be Free”.