Case Law System...will destroy this country

When "relativism" is applied to the law it is called "legal positivism." This "positivism" started in the 1870s when  Harvard Law School Dean Christopher C. Langdell tried to compare apples with oranges; He assumed that Darwin's theory, which is still argued over, of biological evolution could be and should be applied to jurisprudence. He, I believe, to a certain degree, believed that since man evolved, that his laws and the Constitution should evolve under the guidance of judges. It was at that time that students of the law would study decisions of judges rather than the Constitution. Since that time history, precedent, and the views and beliefs of the Founders became more and more irrelevant and the Constitution as a hindrance to the advancement of a "progressive" society. Personally I find the analogy of comparing a biological system and a legal system as totally asinine.

I believe that a leading relativist and progressive, John Dewey, in 1927 was as wrong as he could be when he stated:

"The belief in political fixity, of the sanctity of some form of state consecrated by the efforts of our fathers and hallowed by tradition, is one of the stumbling-blocks in the way of orderly and directed change."

As this approach was gradually adopted by this country's law schools the pillars of the foundation of our nation were eroded and the nation started to become a nation of men and not one of law. The only good I see is that this new theory of relativism increases the business of the legal system and their income. If the foundations of the law keep shifting like the sands in the desert then the arguments defending one position versus another are infinite and can change from day to day or case to case. A nation with this kind of foundation is bound to crumble into a mound of dust in time.

Does Pres. Obama want a new Constitution?

When our country was founded and the founding documents written the underlying document and philosophy which our Founders used was the Bible and natural law philosophy. Sometime around the middle of the twentieth century a new competing philosophy, "relativism", began to gain acceptance especially in some of the so-called elite academic centers. It promulgated that standards of behavior and rules and laws were all relative to the society in which an individual lived in. In essence each man creates his own judgments about what is right and wrong, moral relativism.

When this type of moral relativism is applied to the law it is called "legal positivism." This "legal positivism" is characterized by the following points:

1. There are no God given standards of law and if perchance there might be they are not relevant in a modern legal system.
2. Since God does not give us law or rights the author must be man (government) and what it gives it can also take away or change in any manner it wishes. The state is therefore the highest human authority.
3. Since all of the elite know that both man and society evolve, law and its interpretation must also evolve;so no solid framework on which society can be sure that will not change exists and the whim of man or the state is final.
4. Judges through their decisions on evolutionary law control the system.
5. The study of judges (men/women) and not original foundations of the legal system becomes the study of law. In other words we go from a country of LAW to a country of MEN/WOMEN.

I content that when this happens and completely encompasses our land it will lead to the devolution of the country and to its eventual demise. Is this the direction in which President Obama is knowingly taking us? You be the judge both by studying his words and actions.

The Gathering Storm

In the very early days of our country's existence it was often called the American Union of States. The unity of the United States of America was forged out in two major storms, the Revolutionary War against Great Britain and the War Between the States (the Civil War) a domestic war among ourselves. The first war was fought to free ourselves from the tyranny of King George the III and the English parliament which abused us and the second for a variety of economic, moral (slavery), cultural and racial issues. These two storms eventually passed after the loss of many lives and after the soil of America was sanctified by the blood of many Americans...it, the United States now is a sacred place because of the lives which were lost to forge and hammer it into the United States, the Union.

Today another storm is gathering in this country; a storm of direction, a storm which will determine weather we continue to follow the path and foundations and principles which our Founding Fathers laid out in the Constitution of the United States or one that is made up to fulfill the whims and fancies of the politically elite. Will our country continue to be a country of law or a country of men who can warp and corrupt it in the so-called name of "progress"; who can change that which we call good and virtuous into bad and evil. If those who promote and proselytize win the battle for moral relativism in this country I believe we will loose the Republic which our Founders gave to us and will dishonor all those who gave their last in the aforementioned storms.