Imagine you live in 18^th Century America. You are officially a part of the British Empire, living in one of the colonies.

The official religion of the British at that time was the Church of England – the Anglican Church. The new world has many other religious traditions behind it as well. One thing is certain, if you lived in the colonies in the 1700’s, you were Christian, Jewish, or Deist…atheists were few.

The state church had political power as well as the moral and spiritual force represented by its faith. Europe underwent a terrible time as various groups challenged the religious and political power of the Papacy. Very often a person’s allegiance to a particular doctrine or leader put him or her into conflict with their political leadership, usually a king or queen.

For this reason, the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention shared a bias: religion and government make bad partners organizationally. Madison, Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and the others didn’t want a particular religion controlling the mechanisms of a federal government. They believed in a very weak federal government, strong state government, and strongest local and personal government.

This explains why the first Congress passed a series of Constitutional amendments to enshrine religious liberty as a cornerstone of America. The First Amendment makes clear that, “…Congress shall make no law establishing a religion nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” The purpose here was NEVER to push religion out of the public sector, but rather that the government and the various religious organizations would be neither married to the government nor banned by federal law.

Interestingly, this only applied to the federal government. At the time of passage, several of the states had an official connection to religious organizations: Massachusetts was Congregational, Virginia and most of the others were Anglican. But religious freedom in these places was impressive, especially in comparison with European states.

Our political leaders were deeply influenced by Judaeo-Christian ideals and philosophy. They are embedded in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Among these are the beliefs that human beings are the work of a Creator and that our rights come not from government, but from God. Washington was a leader in his local Anglican parish. Adams was a Unitarian Christian. James Madison attended the Episcopal church, even though he was highly critical of organized religion.

This is our founding, our history, and our political tradition.

So I’m driving back from Jefferson City today and heard the Sean Hannity show. Jamie Dupree does a regular commentary on his program and was sounding off on the Senate’s hearings with Loretta Lynch, President Obama’s designee to be the Attorney General of the United States. The discussion between Hannity and Dupree left me angry and appalled at what’s happening in Washington.

Dupree predicts that Lynch will fly through the confirmation process fairly easily. He suggests that up to 20 Republican Senators plan to vote for approve her nomination. If every Democrat votes for her, look for over sixty votes – a super majority – to support her.

The Republicans, especially Ted Cruz and Jeff Sessions, exposed her fairly well over the past two days as a leftist radical with no respect for the Constitution. She is a political hack, willing to do the bidding of the President regardless of the moral or legal situation. She is, therefore, unqualified for this job.

In November, the American people spoke clearly about the Obama agenda for America: decidedly thumbs-down. Yet the Republican Party operatives in the Senate didn’t get that message.  No, they are trying to be “cooperative” and “work with” the President and the Democrats, trying to project an image that they are “proving that they can govern.” I can’t remember how many times I’ve heard the Republican establishment senators and congressional representatives say that the election meant, “The American people want us to work together.” No, No, a thousand times No!

For those not yet convinced, the American Republic is gone. We are now governed by those in power – an oligarchy of elitists who wield power without regard to the will of the people or the rule of law established foundational in the US Constitution. They are thugs, liars, and demagogues, who dismiss the people of this country and see us as pawns who need placating every two or four or six years, depending on the particular office in question. We are nothing to them.

Eventually America faces one of two destinies. Either the American people begin wielding their mass power at the ballot box and remove these elitists from office peacefully, or revolution is inevitable. In any case, this current debacle cannot continue.

The Declaration of Independence is quiet clear: government serves at the pleasure of the governed. And when government becomes tyrannical, it must be removed and replaced by a system more harmonious to the desires of the people. This principle should scare every politician of the Republican party who votes for this nominee, whose own words condemn her as unqualified for the job. That these same Senators are laughing while voting in favor should terrify the people…and help us realize what we must do to rescue our family and friends from the tyrannical Leviathan of the Federal Government.