Two candidates offer change

When the founders wrote the United States Constitution, they envisioned a society ruled by law as opposed to being ruled by individuals. Prior to the American founding, it was the monarch or dictator who ruled.
 
Everyone in society lived at the luxury of the ruler. One would work the land and receive whatever compensation the ruler decided. One has a sense of that today with the income tax. Government officials decide how much of one's income one gets to keep.
 
However, the founders devised a system of government whereby the ruler (elected official) was subject to law. The ruler no longer ruled. The ruler had to obey the law and serve the people. Hence, every individual, including all elected officials (rulers), paid allegiance to the United States Constitution.
 
This year Republicans and Libertarians have a tremendous opportunity to provide the American people with a candidate for president of the United States who will lead by example, paying allegiance to that great document.
 
Delegates to the National Libertarian Party presidential nominating convention meet in Denver over Memorial Day weekend and have several individuals from which to choose. One has the most campaign experience, including contending for the 1992 Libertarian Party vice presidential nomination and running her own campaign for the senate in 2004.
  
Dr. Mary Ruwart is able to explain the libertarian message clearly and concisely, standing true to the Constitution. She has been a leader in the Libertarian Party for 26 years and has written a book entitled "Healing Our World In an Age of Aggression" describing how American society would operate if U.S. government officials followed the principles outlined in the Constitution created by the founders.
 
Delegates to the National Republican presidential nominating convention meet during the week of Labor Day in St. Paul, Minn., and have the opportunity to nominate Dr. Ron Paul, a 10-term congressman from Texas.
 
He campaigns on the idea that the Constitution has meaning. He upholds his oath of office to support the principles of liberty found in the Constitution on every vote he makes in congress. Paul campaigned for president as the Libertarian Party nominee in 1988.
 
If either of these two individuals, or both, gets the nod from their respective parties, then the American people will not be faced with the decision of voting for the lesser of two evils. The individual the delegates to the Democratic National Convention designate as their nominee will be one that has already demonstrated an unwillingness to follow the principles outlined in the Constitution.
 
Electing Paul or Ruwart to the presidency will not automatically remedy all of the economic and political maladies in which Americans find themselves. However, giving the American people the prospect to elect a president of the United States who would take the oath of office seriously and honorably, would begin the process of reverting the movement of the ship of state toward tyranny back to the principles found in the Constitution.
 
Republican and Libertarian delegates to their respective national conventions have a great opportunity to give the American people a gift of a lifetime. Hopefully, they have the wisdom and the courage to do just that.

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The Mount Rushmore presidents will be at the Historic Yuma Theatre next Tuesday, April 29, for discussion about the Constitution. Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the UPS store in the Fry's Foothills Center or at The Freedom Library.


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Howard J. Blitz is a local libertarian and
president of The Freedom Library Inc.,
2435 S. 8th Ave. His e-mail address is
info@freedomlibrary.org