Hope Without Action

By Douglas V. Gibbs

Hope without action is no hope at all.

Hope is a wonderful thing.  We hope daily, in our lives.  We hope for safety and blessings.  We hope for a raise in pay at our job, and we hope for the traffic to be lighter on the way home.  We hope for luck, and we hope for a better life for our children than what we had.  The Founding Fathers also hoped for many things, including liberty, protection for their natural rights, and a free nation that would survive the test of time.

The tumultuous era during the founding of our nation was filled with hope, but that hope was accompanied by action.  The people associated with the movement for independence from the British Empire didn't sit at home and hope it would come into fruition.  Their hope was empty hope, unless it was accompanied by action.

Considering themselves as free Englishmen, the activities that eventually brought about the forging of our nation began with protests, appeals to the government, and careful planning regarding strategies to make the opportunity for a better society come about.  During that time period, however, the ruling government was unwilling to budge, and refused to work with the colonists.  Eventually, some of the rallies and protests became confrontations.  Then, when the British came to take the colonists' guns and ammunition from them, they took a stand at Lexington Green, Massachusetts, where the first shots were fired that officially launched the War for Independence.

Hope, in order to become more than mere hope, requires action, but that action cannot be launched until there is understanding, and education.  The blueprint for the system that led to the rise of America as a prosperous world power began with We the People, where the central government was tasked with only the external issues, and those issues that preserve, promote, and protect the union.  All internal issues belonged to the States.  Local issues were only to be administered by local government.  When there is a proper distribution of government that follows the plan laid out by the United States Constitution, our nation prospers, and our children enjoy lives embraced by liberty.

In today's society, there is doubt that the next generation will enjoy the freedom we had.  The American System has been usurped, circumvented, and ignored.  With freedom comes responsibility.  An active electorate, and an informed public, is necessary for the security of our free system.  We can hope for improvement, but we must be active, or else the tyranny on the horizon will arrive in our front yards, in our local governments, and in the White House.  www.constitutionassociation.com.

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