The Rabyd Theologian Looks at the Constitution -- Part 9 == For Ourselves and Our Posterity.

For ourselves and our posterity. in short we want to create a government that does all these things not just for themselves but also for future generations. You can say what you want about the founding fathers but one thing they were not was short sighted. They may have had their public and private doubts about their grand experiment but they went forward thinking ahead for future generations. The design of the rest of the Constitution reflects this desire to create a government that would do what they set it up to do. For themselves and for the future.

Part of this then is that even as we live under the constitution, we also must understand that the blessings of our liberty had to be preserved long term and thought of long term.

Wish that was the case now.

In most cases I find the government never thinks beyond the latest crisis. In general, democracies tend to be like this but of late, we have gotten very good at thinking only for the moment. Evidenced by how much we are willing to go into debt in this country thinking that future generations will pay it off. We are willing as citizens to tolerate a government that will do this because as long as we get ours, who cares what happens to our posterity? Maybe we should look at this line a little more.