Op-ed: 

Ignoring 'Separation of Church and State' 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor                                                                                                      This an opinion piece, my opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com. 

“I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the Republic for which it stands, one nation indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”                                                                  - These were the words of America's original “Pledge of Allegiance” written on August 1892.* In it there was no mention of the word “God.”

Earlier this month, on Sunday May 17th, at the National Mall, our nation's capital hosted an event for folks to come together in “prayer, worship, and the reading of scripture” ahead of our nation’s “250th Birthday,” to “Rededicate our Nation to God.” And while there is nothing wrong with the saying of prayers for our nation, there surely is something wrong when the “rededicating” seems to be focused on but one particular religion's view of who and/or what“God” is.

Why so...because, in my opinion, a “rededication” of this type tries to put religion not just above what is our Constitutional rule of law, but also has a possibly dangerous undertone of trying to combine a given religious ideology with power...power manifesting in some folks wishing that our nation would become a modern day version of a Christian based theocracy.

And when the “Pledge of Allegiance” is thrown into this “rededication” mix we find religion itself actually encroaching upon “separation of church and state”...a founding principal of our nation...the very principal that defines who we are as both Americans and as a nation. Religious embellishments are not needed to define us for embellishments are not tangible nor proven facts, but instead, in this case, are but words of bravado masquerading behind a facade of pretending to be facts...a dangerous and at times divisive religious based “good vs. evil” scenario indeed.

And this is why I find it odd that certain “of name” politicians today... politicians who relish in wearing religion on their sleeve only when pandering for votes at or near election time...have suddenly embraced the “God rededication,” and hooked it into our nation's upcoming “250th Birthday” celebration. Simply, we as a nation do not need to “rededicate” ourselves to “God” for to “rededicate” means we were already “dedicated to God” which, in actuality, we as a nation never were.

And that, dear reader, is indeed a fact as witnessed by proven cause and effect scenarios that have played out in our nation's history itself. So here let's start with the fact that no matter what some say...no matter what some want to believe...the United States of America is not...I repeat not...a Christian nation nor was she ever intended to be a Christian nation. And while, in part, Christianity did help shape early American culture and ensuing morality, what was to become the actual legal framework for our nation was most decidedly secular in nature, and rightfully so as “separation of church and state,” was indeed a key factor in our nation's founding.

How so? Folks tend to forget, or simply chose to ignore the fact that a number of our great “Founders and Framers”...including Thomas Jefferson and James Madison...saw “separation of church and state” as actually being necessary to protect religious freedom, while at the same time helping to prevent government overreach into ones personal and/or religious life.

I do tend to think that both Jefferson and Madison believed then, as I have always believed, that when an individual’s private beliefs...religious or otherwise...invades what is to be civil governance that its intention is to be` divisive, and thus work to destroy instead of uniting “We the People” together.

And so these very wise men...and some modern day presidents as well (like JFK and Reagan) ...did deem “separation” to be the means by which to help ensure a stable and more diverse “Republic”...a “Republic” for “all the people” free from the confines of what are truly overly religious zealots, rhetoric, dogma, and of course drama. And it's drama that today tends to see certain branches of the Evangelical movement entwining itself not only into partisan politics, but calling those who do not share their faith or their political beliefs “heretics, infidels, and evil,” while at the same time damning them to hell, of which I myself have been a target of.

And so the truth is that these men...these patriots...understood at the time of our nation's founding what we all should understand today, but foolishly many do not. And that is by keeping religion out of “secular” government it in turn should mean keeping government out of religion, Remember, our “Founders and Framers” hoped to assure that the new “Republic” being formed would never fall into the trap of, or morphing into, a theocracy...the very form of government that did not serve the “Old World” well...the very form of government some not so silently hope America would turn into today.

And it is this not understanding the logic behind the “separation” concept itself...coupled today with an unhealthy dose, for some, of what is but an indoctrinated fear of “hell and damnation”...that has led a multitude to want religion...in this case their particular version of only the Christian faith... brought openly back into both the public and political discourse, as well as into America's public schools.

And this is also one of the reasons why our “Founders and Framers” were so adamant in their “separation” convictions, so adamant that when the Constitution was being drafted these same men made sure that no one religion...Christianity included...was ever to become or even hope to become the official religion of our nation. And this is witnessed by the fact...yes fact...that the words “Christian,” “Jesus,” or “ God” appears nowhere in either the“Declaration of Independence” or in the “United States Constitution.” In fact, the only time an official document used the word “Christian” in relation to our new nation, was in the text of the 1797 “Treaty of Tripoli,” signed by then President John Adams which stated these exact words, “the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.”

Don't believe me...go read those very documents for yourself...go research the actual religious beliefs and practices of those men who put pen to our founding papers for it will surely surprise you...apologies accepted...as will the fact that many of our “Founders and Framers” were actually “Deists,” and not Christians in what we today consider to be the classical sense. In fact, some famous “Deists” at the time of our nation's founding included the aforementioned Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, as well as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, John Adams (who outwardly rejected orthodox Christian doctrines like the “Trinity” and “original sin”), Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and even George Washington himself who, while attending church is said to have avoided the key element of “communion.”

These men...again these patriots...did indeed have a more what was at the time called a “rationalist” approach to faith itself for they jointly rejected the so called “supernatural elements” of traditional Christianity while at the same time affirming a belief in what they deemed to be but a benevolent “Creator.” And said “Creator” remained unnamed...no words to the effect of “God” let alone “Jesus”...just the word “Creator” who they and their fellow “Deists” believed revealed himself through “acts of nature” solely driven by logic and simple reasoning alone. Sounds to me like our “Founders and Framers” were quite science driven in their thought processes...which again is why the words “Christian, Jesus, or God” appears nowhere in any of our founding documents.

And so here let me say that I personally do not believe or feel we need to “rededicate” our nation to “God”...to what is now being deemed by most to be only the Christian version of “God” meaning in the sense of “Jesus”...for I am not a Christian nor do I want to be one, but know I am not an atheist either. My personal religious beliefs are mine alone, I find no need to make them public for I believe one's religious beliefs, or lack thereof, should be between them, their “God,” and their conscience.

But I will say that as a Constitutional Republican I firmly believe in the “separation of church and state,” after all we as a nation never were officially dedicated to “God” in the first place, Constitutionally or otherwise. And the words “In God we Trust”...which appears on our paper currency...is in no way a “dedication,” but merely hope and wishes for divine protection...whatever protection that might be.

However, the words “a nation under God“ as stated in our in our current “Pledge of Allegiance” is not an issue, for it is not a “dedication” nor a “rededication” per se, for I see it as a “reaffirmation” to return our nation to the Constitution...the true law of our land...the very document whose words have been ignored and corrupted by too many for far too long. Word semantics I know, but sometimes word semantics do need both a semblance of justification and hence “reaffirmation.” Case closed.

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Footnote

 

* The Pledge of Allegiance was written in August 1892 by Baptist minister Francis Bellamy (1855-1931) who understood the importance and need for a separation between church and state, and was originally published in The Youth's Companion on September 8, 1892. 

 

Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved. 

Op-ed:

The 250 Countdown Begins

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google 

 

...So yes, it's our individual “liberties, freedoms, and fundamental rights” afforded us by the Constitution that not only help to protect us “citizens” from what could be government overreach, but is what makes our nation great. And with our Constitutionally given right to “freedom of speech, religion, and assembly,” along with our right to “due process,” the cornerstone of who we are as both a nation and a people was laid, while at the same time helping to establish the framework of what is deemed to be America's “social and societal order.” And while no nation nor rule of law...including the historic “Magna Carta”...even comes close to “freedom” as defined in our Constitution...one of the greatest if not the greatest document ever written...our “Founders and Framers” were wise enough to design the Constitution as a testament to both “individual freedoms” and the collective rule of all important “secular”...not religious...law...Read entire article here. 

Op-ed:

The 250 Countdown Begins

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google

 

In his first inaugural address, President George Washington referred to the having been set into place a ”republican model of government” as an “experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.”

And as we are now just a year away from said “experiment” reaching its 250th birthday...what is and of itself a true triumph in this ever changing and ever so volatile modern day world...it left me wondering not only why did we succeed as a nation but how we did so, especially when other nations with good intentions have failed. And I do not mean solely in the context of the individual freedoms our Constitution affords“We the People,” but in the larger context of how long will we remain as a nation when now coming into play is America's own special brand of “enemies within”...“enemies” hell bent on bringing our beloved America to her knees sometimes, but not always, minus the usual “shock and awe” tactics that have become the calling card of America's “enemies from without.”

But first know that America...that the United States...is far from the world's oldest nation as so many do mistakenly believe...as Egypt and China have us beat by literally thousands of years. And while both those nations have risen and fallen to yet rise again depending on the type of government in charge during any set period of time, we alone remain as we were founded, as in a “Constitutional Republic” even though misguided sorts erroneously call us and believe us to be a “democracy,” the very thing we are not...the very thing our “Founders and Framers” never wanted nor intended us to be. And while nations...while countries...seem to exist according to a generalized historical time frame regarding what is deemed to be the “organization” of said country...know that Egypt as a country was united around 3150 B.C.E. by King Narmer (the title “pharaoh” came later) and is historically accepted as the world's oldest country; while China was “organized” in 221 BCE with the establishment of the First Imperial Dynasty...making our great nation a “newbie” by comparison coming up on being but 250 years old or should I, in this case, say 250 years “young.”

Yet America...through wars both foreign and domestic...is still here as founded, while the two once great “cradles of civilization” have become but shadows of what was their once glorious past. In fact, today's Egypt is now mired down in authoritarian tactics and military rule, while at the same time claiming to be a Republic; while today's China remains a communist dictatorship. And calling China's Xi Jingping “president” does make a mockery not only of the position itself, but also of what is true presidential powers, responsibilities, and duties.

So as we approach America's 250 year birthday, I also wonder if our “Founders and Framers” ever envisioned that we, as a nation, would last as long as we have for they knew well that giving birth to a nation was far from an easy task as more times than not said birth is riddled with the blood of patriots lost. And while some, including our first president, George Washington, had serious doubts about the longevity of our nation as outlined, constructed, and set to paper in the single “codified” document known as the U.S. Constitution, Washington did hope that its principles and guiding words would endure and stand the test of time. 

And why so...simply because no rule of law then or to date...no other government then or to date...has dared to include the very benchmark words that are the founding principles of our free nation...principles like “separation of powers” along with “checks and balance,” thus ensuring that not only was our government “resilient” thanks to a strong national defense also being put into place, while also ensuring that the new nation now being forged was to be a “just and fair nation” where no one, not even the president, was above the rule of law.

And so it left me wondering, especially in relation to our nation's upcoming milestone birthday, exactly when and why did our Constitution start to become the “enemy” to some and but a burden to others...others trying to negate and change the very words laid down by our “Founders and Framers.” A “good cop, bad cop” scenario of sorts that really has no place in regards to our nation's highest rule of law for we must honor those laws as written, and not define them through personal interpretation of how we wished said laws had been written. Legally updating the Constitution via amendments is one thing, but trying to force personal interpretations on the sum of “We the People” is quite a destructive thing.

So here let me put partisan politics aside and briefly state the reasons why I personally believe the “United States of America” is not only the greatest nation the world has ever known, but remains the most free of nations as well. And let me begin by saying that no single nation has even come close to our collective overall economic successes, our military successes (WWI and WWII comes quickly to mind), and our technological successes (with the greatest success of all, to date, being that we are the only nation to have landed men on the moon and brought them safely back to Earth). Now couple that with the fact that ever since John Hancock put his pen to Constitutional paper we have been a role model to the world in regards to the importance of “individual liberties and freedoms”...rights critical in concept to what was then our emerging nation as they are to us today.

But why are “individual liberties and freedoms”...as in the laws put into place to protect citizens from government overreach...paramount above almost all else to the success of any given nation? It's simply because a nation's government and its leaders that respects the individual rights of its citizens not only helps to build unity, trust, stability, confidence, and a true sense of patriotism amongst its populace, but gains respect on the world stage as well.

And while our beloved America might not be perfect in some respects...after all perfection in its own right tends to be but individual supposition more times than not...we remain a leader in “liberties and freedoms” unparalleled in its success by any nation both past and present. And while some discontented sorts both here at home and abroad love to point out America's flaws, both past and present, the difference between the United States and other nations is that we have always shrived to correct our flaws not bend the will of the people to accept what are proven to be wrongs. Name another nation that has “consistently” since its inception corrected its wrongs without an ulterior motive behind their doing so...bet you cannot.

So yes, it's our individual “liberties, freedoms, and fundamental rights” afforded us by the Constitution that not only help to protect us “citizens” from what could be government overreach, but is what makes our nation great. And with our Constitutionally given right to “freedom of speech, religion, and assembly,” along with our right to “due process,” the cornerstone of who we are as both a nation and a people was laid, while at the same time helping to establish the framework of what is deemed to be America's “social and societal order.” And while no nation nor rule of law...including the historic “Magna Carta”...even comes close to “freedom” as defined in our Constitution...one of the greatest if not the greatest document ever written...our “Founders and Framers” were wise enough to design the Constitution as a testament to both “individual freedoms” and the collective rule of all important “secular”...not religious...law.

Remember, our “Founders and Framers,” many of whom were “deists,” including Thomas Jefferson who so wisely stated, "Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state' is absolutely essential in a free society,” and George Washington who did state, “The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy”....obviously never intended our Constitution nor our nation to be a thesis on theocratic based religious dogma and tenets. And this can be witnessed by the fact that nowhere in the Constitution is one religion favored over another nor did our “Founders and Framers” include the words “God, Jesus, or Christianity” anywhere within its text, thus becoming but supposition by some as to these men's intent. Chosen instead was the word “Creator” which left it up to ones individual and personal belief, or lack thereof, as to its intent or meaning.

Simply, our Constitution is not a religious document nor must it ever become one no matter how some try to meld it together with the “Holy Bible,” nor were its words ever intended to be used by future generations as a blueprint on how to undermine and subvert the will of “We the People” or our societal norms and stability. And yet today, that is exactly what we are seeing by those whom I deem to be our nation's true “enemies within.”And this includes activist judges who are deliberately undermining presidential authority; elected officials who put their partisan driven agendas above Constitutional law; as well as today's indoctrinated young people who are striving to socially re-engineer both our nation's long held societal norms and our founding principals, And the commonality these misguided folks share is the hope that what is their anti-American rhetoric becomes part of the liberal media's daily political discourse.

And so with our nation's 250th birthday still being just a year+ away, we must learn to accept, as fact, that nothing ever lasts forever, and that includes nations. And while the ancient nations of Egypt and China still do exist today they are not as they once were, for like too many others neither have taken to heart the old adage that one must “learn from history or be doomed to repeat it.” A nation's history, whether it be good or bad, does remain its history nevertheless, and to try and erase the bad will not now or ever erase what was. And with “We the People” only now starting to understand the possible challenges we might or might not have to face in either the near or not so distant future, one thing I do know is that Americans always welcome positive change for positives do tend to negate, or a least temper down, the negatives in most any given situation.

So while I, like so many others, look forward to celebrating America's “milestone” 250th birthday and all the “pomp and circumstances” that rightfully go with it, I do believe that our great nation will continue on no matter the obstacles thrown in her path for the simple fact is that America will survive because America must survive...both common sense and logic deems it so. And know that a mere 250 years is just the beginning of Thomas Jefferson's “experiment” in “self-government and individual liberty.” now having morphed into the one true beacon of freedom and exceptionalism that is the ever lasting hallmark of the “United States of America.” Case closed.

Copyright © 2025 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

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Op-ed:

Citizenship: The Cornerstone of Our Republic

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google

 

...So as I write this, President Trump's “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections“ executive order seems to be facing court challenges and delays revolving around the all-important word “citizens”...meaning the Constitution's stated words, as written, continue to be challenged by liberal judges with a decidedly anti-America/anti-Trump agenda. Better to them to make a mockery of the Constitution...one of the greatest documents to freedom ever written...then it is for them to abide by its words.

And while our “Founders and Framers” did design our Constitution in order to “establish a more perfect union, ensure justice, promote domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote general welfare, and to secure liberty,” they also made it very clear that being an “American citizen” was not just needed in establishing a government based upon both “popular sovereignty” and the “consent of the governed,” but that “citizenship” itself was to be an integral part of who were are as a nation. Read entire article here.

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Op-ed:

Citizenship: The Cornerstone of Our Republic

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio 

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google

During his 2024 presidential campaign, then presidential candidate Donald J. Trump did promise that if elected he would, on “day one,” start setting into motion the largest deportation of illegal aliens in U.S. history, as in criminal folks still trying to cross our border illegally as well as those already illegally residing in our country. Thankfully, not only was Trump elected president but the promise he made was kept and continues to be kept to this day.

Score one for now President Trump, his agenda, and of course the MAGA movement.

So as pride in our beloved America continues to grow...as American exceptionalism reemerges thanks in part to this one man...we must not become complacent as to Trump's accomplishments for the 2026 mid-term elections are not as far off as one might think. And with the House being especially vulnerable to a possible switch in party control due to Republicans currently holding but a slim majority of seats, we must make sure that Trump's much needed “election reforms” do become law before said elections take place. Why so...because if we lose the House, and even if we were to hold the Senate, all MAGA stands for could well become but a memory of what could have been accomplished if only more folks had been paying attention.

But our president knows well how critical the midterm elections are, and he has been trying to get laws passed to help assure that our elections are not only free, fair, and most especially honest so that “We the People”...as in the sum of we “American citizens”...have no doubt that all our votes have been properly counted and tabulated minus what is now being referred to as “illegal dilution”...as in the great number of people who have been voting all along...especially in “blue” states...yet people who have no legal right to do so.

In fact, the blame for this “illegal dilution” falls not just on the federal level, but on the state and local levels as well. Why so...because a long held system of “checks and balances” has existed in every state for quite some time, and yet in many “blue” states and cities said system is simply being ignored, but then again so too is the Constitution's own words regarding whom exactly can vote...as in those deemed to be United States “citizens.” And know that the 14th Amendment clearly states in Section 1 that, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

Simply, “citizens” is the key operative word in regards to voting as there's no mention; at all, in the Constitution of “illegals” or “non-citizens” being given the right to vote. And yet we all know that many do vote in certain parts of our country, because “leftist” judges and “bleeding heart” Democrat elected officials seem to be working in tandem to not only help those illegally crossing our border to do so...including amongst them thugs, thieves, drug mules, gang members, child molesters, rapists, murderers, and terrorists...but they also help to keep illegals safe from Trump's now ongoing and rightful deportations. And how do they accomplish this task...by “blanketing” those who are but criminal invaders under the Constitution's already existing words “due process” and “fundamental rights”...voting laws be damned.

So while our Constitution's 14th Amendment does indeed protect, on the federal level, what is known as “due process rights”...“rights” which ensure that no one can be deprived of “life, liberty, or property” without “due process” of law....basically what the words “due process” means to Democrats in regards to voting rights is that the government must follow what is known as “fair procedures and rules”* before disallowing an individual or a specific group of individuals the right to vote in a federal election. In other words, most Democrats and leftist judges want the Constitutionally deemed word “citizens” to be taken out of the voting mix so that future elections could become a Democrat “free for all” voting scenario. But try as the Democrats may, the 14th Amendment also has a few things to say about that as well.

And while, unfortunately, it is common knowledge that “illegal voting”...especially when considering the numbers now involved...has already influenced the outcome of many state and local elections...especially in “blue” what were once “ purple states”...in this political discourse all other words, while important, do now become secondary to the Constitution's key word, “citizens.” Why so...simply because it alone, as per the words of our “Founders and Framers,” not only protects we American “citizens” along with our actual right to vote, but its principal and intent also guards against what is now the rightfully deemed aforementioned “dilution by illegal voting.” And the fault here again lies within all branches of government...federal, state, and local level governments...however, said “dilution” most assuredly starts with the top tier elections and filters down from there.

How so...here's but one example that's being completely ignored, for the fact is that existing Federal election requirements...which includes the establishing of a uniform “Election Day”...already prohibits States from counting ballots received after “Election Day” because these are the ballots where most of the “illegal dilution” usually takes place...as well as prohibiting “foreign nationals”...aka “non-citizens”...from registering to vote in any national election. Don't believe me...see the law for yourself in both Federal law 2 U.S.C. 7 and 3 U.S.C. 1. and 18 U.S.C. 1015 and 611 as written as per the rulings of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit regarding the Republican National Committee v. Wetzel (2024).**

So if “settled law” has already been established with “precedence” set as to who can and cannot vote in our elections, why has this, what is fact, not just been ignored, but sees“blue” state governors and “blue” state elected officials not even being called to task for their allowing ballots received after Election Day to continue to be counted...ballots mailed in more times than not by those who should not be voting in the first place. In fact, the 14th amendment also authorizes the federal government to “punish states” that try to either take away, curtail, or stall...with stalling election results now being all too commonplace... a U.S.“citizen's” right to have their vote counted with results tallied and revealed in a timely, fair, and above all else legal manner.

And that brings us back full circle to the Constitution's five key words,“Citizens of the United States”...it cannot be said any clearer, more directly, truthfully or consistently than that, and for both liberal activist judges and elected officials to deny those five words is to deny the Constitution itself...the very document they took an oath to protect and defend. And by their doing so these folks, in my opinion, willingly and with malice intended choose to not only “aid and abet” those breaking our laws, but also took it upon themselves to do any and everything possible...legally or otherwise...to not only corrupt but to redefine the Constitution's words to help push forth their anti-American agenda, as well as to keep their anti-Trump political “witch hunt” ongoing.

Simply, “divert and deflect” the issues at hand has become the obstacles thrown in both Trump's and the laws path...“settled law” included...to not only help keep but “up the numbers” of those illegally voting, with the hope that declining Democrat party numbers will at least start to reverse.

Remember, these current slew of liberal activist judges trying to remove the word “citizen(s)” from the voting discourse are, for the most part, Obama and Democrat party loyalists who are resurrecting, if you will, the meaning behind the words stated by Barack Obama back when he was president...the words where he implied that our Constitution was an “outdated document” no longer appropriate for “modern times.” And so with his now infamous words that,“We can no longer rely on a rule book made a few centuries ago,” it can clearly be seen that the fair and honest voting laws President Trump is trying to enact...laws regarding only “citizens” being able to vote as per the Constitution...are laws which could permanently derail Obama's still to this day hoped for “fundamental transformation of America.”

And so it was and remains Obama's own words that, I do believe, laid the very foundation upon which these liberal judges are actually not just trying to usurp President Trump's Constitutionally given presidential powers...most especially those regarding voting laws...but that they are using Obama's words as the means and conduit by which to help assure that every individual of voting age residing in our country today...no matter their legal citizenship status...is allowed to vote. Why so...as in a last desperate attempt to help Obama's socialist driven “transformation of America” not only reach fruition, but across the board implementation as well.

Simply, the above stated is why not only must Trump's March 25th signed executive order to overhaul U.S. federal elections...including voters having to show proof of “citizenship” before voting in the 2026 midterm elections...but why the Constitution's word “citizens” remains one of the most important words...after “We the People” of course...in the very document Obama arrogantly dared to call but a “rule book.”

So as I write this, President Trump's “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections“ executive order seems to be facing court challenges and delays revolving around the all-important word “citizens”...meaning the Constitution's stated words, as written, continue to be challenged by liberal judges with a decidedly anti-America/anti-Trump agenda. Better to them to make a mockery of the Constitution...one of the greatest documents to freedom ever written...then it is for them to abide by its words.

And while our “Founders and Framers” did design our Constitution in order to “establish a more perfect union, ensure justice, promote domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote general welfare, and to secure liberty,” they also made it very clear that being an “American citizen” was not just needed in establishing a government based upon both “popular sovereignty” and the “consent of the governed,” but that “citizenship” itself was to be an integral part of who were are as a nation.

In fact, these learned gentlemen viewed “citizenship” as the cornerstone in which ultimate power would reside, as in “We American Citizens”...while at the same time protecting individual liberties, ensuring equal treatment under the law, and encouraging what they referred to as “active civic engagement.” And it's the sum of these individual parts that our “Founders and Framers” deemed an inherent component of being a U.S. “citizen.” Simply, “citizenship” itself was the very cornerstone of this new nation they helped to create, and in his standing strong for we “citizens”...and specifically only “citizens” being allowed to vote...President Donald J. Trump honors the rule of law that is our Constitution while activist judges and Democrat politicians continue to deem her as but an “outdated document” that needs an infusion of illegal alien blood...and that is the saddest, and most traitorous act of all. Case closed. ___________________________________________________________

 Footnotes

* “Fair procedures and rules” help to ensure a “just process” is in place when decisions affecting someone's rights or interests are in play. These rules include, but are not limited to, providing adequate notice, a fair hearing with the right to respond, and an unbiased decision-making process.

** The Republican National Committee v. Wetzel (2024) is the case involving a challenge to a Mississippi statute that allows absentee ballots to be received up to five days after the federal Election Day. 

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