The Second American Revolutionary/Civil War, Part 14
Rick Joyner
We covered how the reversing of what our
Constitution said about the relationship between church and state led to
increased stifling of our religious liberty. This led to the erosion of
morality and integrity, as well as our other liberties and the Constitution’s
authority itself. Using the courts to do this was a main strategy of the
enemies of liberty. They have accomplished this to a great degree and are now
close to being able to almost completely nullify the power of our Constitution.
Judges are human; we cannot expect them to be
perfect. An assault on America’s religious liberty may not have been the intent
of the judges issuing the judgments that led to this, but it was the effect.
That’s why the Founders in the Constitution gave Congress, not the judicial
branch, the authority to keep the government moored to the Constitution. When
Congress allowed their authority in this to be usurped by the judicial,
everything the Founders foresaw as the greatest threat to our Republic—judicial
tyranny—came upon us.
As shocking as this thought may be to most
Americans, the judicial branch was not given the authority to determine what
was constitutional or unconstitutional, and for a very good reason. Federal
Judges, and even Supreme Court Justices, are not elected and therefore do not
answer to the people for their decisions. This authority was given to the Congress
because it was believed that in Congress, free and open debate would be
required for congressional action. Therefore, Congress would be more likely to
come to the right interpretation of the Constitution, the supreme law of the
land. This was more likely than putting such weighty decisions in the hands of
a single judge, or even small groups of them such as the Supreme Court.
We really need to get this: the Supreme Court does
not have the authority to interpret any law as being constitutional or unconstitutional
unless this is asked of them by Congress. It was asked of them early in our
history on an issue Congress considered itself too busy to research and address
at the time, and the Supreme Court has assumed this authority since. That this
was allowed has proven catastrophic by leading to increasing judicial tyranny.
It has also led to the increasing and unnecessarily vicious conflicts among the
people over issues that were designated as authority reserved to the states and
the people, and for a good reason. No small body of unelected judges or
justices were to be allowed to impose their will, or their interpretation of
major issues, on the whole country.
You can have
the best form of government and still have bad government if you do not have
good people in it. Our Republic has not failed, but we have failed the
Republic. The present growing crisis could have been avoided if we had honored
our national fathers by heeding their warnings, especially about the threat of
judicial tyranny. Because judges are now so politicized, making decisions based
more on political prejudices or expediency rather than the merits of each case
or its adherence to the Constitution, increasingly desperate political
maneuvering now dominates the judicial branch. For there to be true justice, no
politics should be allowed in the judicial, and we have drifted far from that
now.
A strong, just, independent judiciary is
necessary for true justice. This can only be recovered and maintained by
strong, just, independent judges who are committed to staying in their lane as
established by the Constitution. For any judge to legislate from the bench, or
make law, is unconstitutional. Congress alone was given the authority to make
laws, not the judiciary or executive branches.
Weak, inept leadership in Congress has allowed its
authority to be usurped by both the judicial and executive branches. Every time
this is allowed and goes uncontested by Congress the Constitution’s authority
as the supreme law of the land is weakened, and we continue spiraling down
toward a terrible chaos. Later we will address specific examples of when and
how this happened and the damage it has done, but there is another culprit in
this we must address first—the church.
Again, whenever we see major destructive strongholds
growing in our land we need to look at the church first because what we release
or bind in heaven gets released, or bound, on the earth. Or, our salt has lost
its ability to preserve and our light has not been shining. Later, we will
examine the connection between the failure of church leadership and the release
of judicial tyranny in our land.