The Constitution Study
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – I can’t say how many times I’ve heard people call for diversity. It sounds great, all different types of people living together peacefully. However, when I see what people call diversity, I’m reminded of a line from the original Star Trek. “Yeah, but I gotta be the unity.” In other words, diversity is often a synonym for uniformity, which reminds me of a story. When I was a child…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Do any of you remember the phrase “Stranger Danger!”? I’m a little old to have learned the rhyme in school, but I remember being taught by my parents things like don’t take candy from a stranger, don’t get in a car with a stranger, and always telling my parents where I was going to be. Of course, there were a few exceptions. I was told I could trust a police officer, and…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – So what makes people believe they have the moral justification to impose their will on others? Usually, it’s the certainty that they are right combined with the arrogance that they are smarter or more righteous than others. Sprinkle in access to a little bit of power, and wha la, you have tyranny…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Take for example, the Protecting the Right to Organize, or PRO Act. As its title suggests, it claims to protect the right of employees to organize. However, a quick look at the text of the bill again proves the adage, if you want to know what a bill will do, assume it is the opposite of its title…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – They say, “Sunlight is the best disinfectant.” Recent news confirms that Washington, D.C., needs to be scrubbed down with bleach. From the Biden bribery scandal, the abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on American citizens, and the FBI’s coverups, it’s beginning to sound like a line from the Wizard of Oz. “Bribery and spying and coverups, Oh My!” Now…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Take a look around, and you’ll see tyrannical policies coming out of the U.N. Washington, D.C., many of our state houses, and, yes, corporate America. I talk to many people, and most fall into one of two categories, those who have given up and those who are frustratedly seeking someone to save them. In my mind, neither of those groups is living free. What does it take…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Sometimes, we can’t see the forest for the trees. We focus so much on one thing we miss everything else around it. For example, we focus so much on everything that’s wrong with America, and we sometimes forget that millions of people every year don’t run from here; they come here. I’m old enough to remember the Cold War. I remember people risking being shot…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – In the Preamble to the United States Constitution, we read that one of the reasons we have this vaunted document is to “establish justice.” What does this lofty word that not only graces one of our founding documents, the name of a federal agency, and a statue found in front of probably every courtroom mean? The virtue which consists in giving to everyone…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – What is wrong with America today? Based on the comments I receive, there is a long list of things people believe is wrong with us. Easily the two most common questions I’m asked are, “What can we do to fix it?” and “Do you think this will fix it?” Sometimes I don’t know which is worse, the disease or the cure some people recommend. I do believe if we take the time…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Samuel Adams said, “If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel nor your arms.” That is a statement I believe we need to heed well in the 21st century. We have to decide which is more important to us, our liberty or our tranquility. Because the…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – When I was a young man just getting started in business, I was given a good piece of advice. “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” The people I encountered would be less concerned with my knowledge and credentials until they saw how I lived my life, including caring about them. This simple phrase has not only been…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Chutzpah means “unbelievable gall; insolence; or audacity.” If there’s a better word to describe so much of what is going on today, I’m having a hard time thinking of it. As so many of us suffer the onslaught of “Pride Month,” I’m reminded of a comment someone left me when I wrote about Memorial Day. To paraphrase, isn’t it a shame that the nation that will…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – There’s an old adage in politics: “What you tax, you get less of. What you subsidize, you get more of.” This is also true in a more generalized sense. For example, when a politician crushes the rights of the people they are supposed to serve, when the cities they run become dystopian cesspools, only to be given a sweet deal to teach others how to do it, you can’t…
The Constitution Study with Host Paul Engel – Have you heard the idiom, “The fox guarding the hen house”? The idea of allowing the person committing the crime to protect you from it. That pretty much describes most governments in America today. Sure, we have three branches of government, and they are supposed to jealously guard their powers, thus providing the checks and balances needed…
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