In 1998 I set out on this journey with Moses Sands, to write a book, "his way", about the blueprint of the American House and the US Constitution. Moses was a remarkably uncomplicated man for someone who could see things so profoundly. He saw and understood the Constitution as a Yankee farmer or Boston shop clerk might have in 1790, as well as the Framers. But he also saw it and understood it as an Indonesian rice farmer might have, who couldn't read at all, never heard of America, and only had instincts and dreams for the liberties it laid out.
         He concluded, rightfully in my view, that the Constitution was written for the little guy, (the "C-Student") and not so much for the A-students who could navigate through almost any sort of political regime, no matter how tyrannical. What connected the A- and the C-students was a kind of handshake, inasmuch as the Constitution assumed the A-student would be ever mindful that he was standing on the shoulders of a lot of C-students himself, all of whom had led him to whatever lofty place he now stood. Gratitude.
         Moses believed that you could not look over the span of human history without realizing that the kind of human liberty we have known here in America indeed does encapsulate the hopes of dreams of all men throughout history. He reduced it to the simple formula of being able to build and own your own House, and pass it on, to be built on even more, and, in order to protect that process, create reciprocal relationships with your neighbor so that neither of you would be spending too much time trying to take from the other, as history shows some men are wont to do.
         John Adams wrote that our Constitution could only work in a religious society. That now seems to be where the war, or contest, or struggle today, clearly lies. Adams didn't say "Christian" although he probably inferred it. But what he referred to was a society that moved together with fixed stars in their heaven to guide them. Politics is indeed remarkably uncomplicated when you believe, really believe as a C-student is more apt to believe than a Borgia, that there is a final consequence to the acts we make in this lifetime. Men do not believe they can repeal or amend the immutable in such a society, which is why the Bill of Rights was drafted as it was, as coming from an immutable Source. This too is a line of demarcation between ourselves and our enemies. They wish to replace God...with themselves.

        In some of our travels across the West, many hours in the car, Moses would suddenly pipe up with some new revelation he'd just had about yet another parallel between what he called "transcendent religion" and American exceptionalism. He believed that God looked down and seeing the carnage the royal systems were still bringing to the world, said "this has got to stop", so arranged for his own petrie dish, protected by two oceans where this little experiment in human freedom could grow.
        The only seed He wanted from the building stock was common sense, the ability to know how to build and take care of one's House. With the Constitution he simply added the Plan that would enable his stock to multiply and pass those Houses on.
        I imagine at some point He looked down and was very pleased.
        We've written much of what Moses Sands said on the subject, especially about the natural enemies to the process, (modern royals or elitists and statists). Moses called me one evening in 1998 and suddenly cried out that Americans no longer knew the blueprint of the House, and had no knowledge of the relationship between their House and the Constitution (and those immutable Laws).
        He wanted to prevent what has just happened, but he crossed over in 2006.

        But while we have been writing for a long time about more active things that citizens need to do in order to restore the Republic, we think it would a pyrrhic victory indeed, if after running the scalawags out of office, and putting a few in jail, then we simply went back to how it was in 2005. Our House was in jeopardy first. It was this weaknesses that allowed all the other things to happen. The entire Constitutional "formula" began to disintegrate when average Americans began to lose light of the blueprints of their House. Oh, it was intentional, mind you. A conspiracy even. But the others in the "formula", the Protectors, no longer wanted to get their hands dirty, and the politicians were too be-sotted from their dalliances with that giant whore, Government, to do anything about it. Not one in ten elected officials in either party can even tell you what the purpose of this wonderful expriment even was. Not one in five conservatives can either.    
       You've been on your own for a long time now, and quite frankly, your grandpa would be ashamed. Just look at the myriad of people you've invited in for a chat, but who never left and now lounge around our dinner table like lords...advertisers, government officials passing our free candy, purveyors of filth selling their wares to your children...and a decreasing ability by you to say "no" to your children, for a thousand reasons. Putting Barny Frank in jail will certainly make me feel better, but it will not fix our national House. It takes more.

       We need to go back to see how our House was built and maintained in 1940, not 2000. That was when getting an education and a job, and marrying a decent girl who's never shown her belly button to anyone...anyone!...was the ultimate of cool. There was a time when being able to drink twelve beers in 45 minutes was lame, not cool, for only rich kids at the better universities could do that and not be roundly punished in society, with lost wages, or diminished social standing.
      
       We have just had a socialist takeover in our country. How severe it will be is anyone's guess. No one knows how long it will last. But we need to take advantage of every opportunity. Now it is even more crucial that we get back in touch with the blueprint of our House, for it may well be that we cannot rely on the normal forces of the social structure we used to know to help us pass it along for a few generations. We may have to revisit the blueprints our House as if it were a sacred plan, to be passed from father to son, but kept out of sight, and mentioned only in whispered tones. We may have top do the same with the Constitution for it may soon be a document that is completely thrown down or disfigured beyond all recognition in a few short years. Keep them safe.
      If time ever allows, and we can find a publisher, I'll still get out that book Moses wanted to write, but in the meantime you can go back to an earlier post we did here in 2007, which was the only thin Moses Sands ever wrote that I know about.
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