Unwritten Constitution Under Assault
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Posted: 05/28/08
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Unwritten Constitution Under Assault
By Thomas E. Brewton
In the United States and Great Britain, immigration abetted by
multiculturalism is corrupting society's unwritten constitution,
which is the positive embodiment of the spirit that animates a
society and gives it a driving force of unity in belief and national
aims.
No society can survive without a consensus about right and wrong,
about what constitutes moral conduct. That consensus is the
unwritten constitution of society, ( http://www.thomasbrewton.com/
index.php/weblog/Core-Principles/ ) the content that gives meaning to
a written constitution, the meat on the bones of the structure of
government.
Without that consensus there can be only a disparate group of people
with little or no attachment to their new homes. That is what we see
increasingly, here and in Great Britain, under the impact of a
tsunami of immigration from alien cultures and religions.
Combining this huge flood of immigration with a liberal-progressive
ethos of rootless multiculturalism sets the stage for disintegration
of American and British societies more effectively than terrorist
attacks by Islamic jihadists. No longer is education viewed as a
melting pot to teach our history and the principles of our government.
Without the pre-existing unwritten constitution of 1776, which
Jefferson said was the source of his words in the Declaration of
Independence, our written Constitution has become vulnerable to
distortion by activist judges and liberal-progressive educators.
In Great Britain, the danger is even more acute. England has no
single written constitution, depending instead upon various
documents, commencing with Magna Carta in 1215, and long preserved
traditions that circumscribe political power and social interaction.
To see what happens when liberal-progressives impose standardless
"tolerance" and multiculturalism on a society, read Theodore Dalrymple's
"A Confusion of Tongues: Why Britain struggles to assimilate
immigrants."
( http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_otbie-
immigrant_assimilation.html )
Judeo-Christian traditions of right and wrong underlie the unwritten
constitution that prevailed in 1776. Those traditions taught
generations of Americans that every person should always do his best
to do the right thing, even if doing so did not benefit him
personally. A flood of judicial decisions since the 1950s reveals,
however, that doing away with precepts of right and wrong is one of
the primary objectives of liberal-socialism.
The "me" generation of the Baby Boomer era were taught that the only
standard is immediate gratification of their sensual urges. Hence
today's generally accepted belief that sexual promiscuity, murdering
babies via abortion, drug abuse, biological fathers abandoning
partners and the children they father, and living off the welfare
state are acceptable life styles.
Our liberal-socialistic educational system goes to great lengths to
teach students that the only important virtue is what liberal-
progressives call "tolerance,' which amounts to saying that there are
no standards of any kind. Liberals' version of scientific truth
flatly rejects what they call value judgments. John Dewey's
philosophy of pragmatism says do whatever you can get away with.
Cheat in school and cook the books in companies like Enron and Tyco;
dump substandard mortgage loans into packages of supposed
creditworthy loans. If it works for you, that is the only test of
validity.
It is not essential that a cohesive and successful political society
have a written constitution. But no political society can exist for
long without an unwritten constitution. The idea of a written
constitution is, in fact, fairly recent in world history. England's
constitution is not a single document, but a large collection of
acts, declarations, and traditions. So long as the English people
preserved reverence for and clear recollections of traditions,
England remained the dominant world power. Just as in the United
States, the unwritten English constitution began to disintegrate
under the corrosive effects of its 20th century socialist labor
governments.
Without the unwritten constitution, a written constitution is mere
form without content, the state of affairs that came to prevail in
the United States during the 20th century. Knowledge of the
unwritten constitution is essential to preserving the intent of the
written constitution, because words taken out of context can be
misinterpreted by liberal enemies of society.
Today, after seventy years of liberal brain-washing, American
students know almost nothing about our history and traditions, which
means that our unwritten constitution is falling apart from lack of
maintenance. The United States has become a large collection of
competing special interest groups, each heedless of the common good
and intent upon getting as much as possible of government handouts.
American society has become the equivalent of road kill being picked
clean by buzzards and crows.
Thomas E. Brewton is a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, Inc.
The New Media Alliance is a non-profit (501c3) national coalition of
writers, journalists and grass-roots media outlets.
His weblog is THE VIEW FROM 1776
http://www.thomasbrewton.com/
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