Catastrophic Failure Of Human Government

By Don McGee

After the global flood of Noah’s day God inaugurated the dispensation of human governance. Since that time humanity has contrived numerous systems whereby people would govern and be governed, and mostly the effort has been one failure after another. Tyranny, fascism, and other forms of social oppression and exploitation quickly rise to the surface with God-given liberty being the first casualty.

Skipping over the details, the bottom line is humanity is totally incapable of fail-safe self-governance because even the best of men and the finest of civil systems inherit, from one generation to the next, the defective spiritual chromosome called sin, and sin touches and taints everything. Further, the collective church fails at civil governance because, though sin is atoned for by Jesus’ blood, the church consists of people with the sinful Adamic nature. It will take the rapture of the church and the imposition of our glorified bodies for us to live without that dreadful nature. Going still further, God never has and does not today intend for the church to rule the world — Jesus will personally do that. And, it appears it won’t be very long until His coronation.

In the meantime what about our republic, one of God’s great gifts to the entire world? Certainly we are (were?) different and far more accommodating to the human spirit of independence and self sustainment than all others, but does this mean we can do what needs to be done in order to save the ship of state and, at the same time make the world safer? What follows is why I believe we cannot, try as we might.

Interestingly, the Spanish Conquistadors went to South America to find gold, while the Pilgrims came to North America in search of religious liberty, specifically the practice of Christianity. The Mayflower Compact clearly reflected this intention and set the posture for what followed in our country’s history.

We have a document, the U.S. Constitution, that is the law of the land; a document so construed by our Founding Fathers as to support God-given liberty to its fullest degree. The federal government was cast into the form of a servant of the people; a servant that must be constantly held in check because our Founders clearly understood a federal government’s inherent inclination to subdue and dominate free people. Because they understood that humanity’s rights are unalienable and come from God and not any government, they formed a constitutional republic, not a pure democracy for they also clearly understood that democracies can very easily become tyrannical.

This great experiment in human liberty necessarily included the electorate’s endued right to chose its leadership and likewise its endued responsibility to throw them out when their agendas run contrary to the Constitution. Further, the right to make any final decision regarding any issue not directly addressed in the Constitution is retained by the people. Though not perfect, yet it was beyond good; it was the best in a very long line of humanly inspired governments.

But, as is the case with every entity associated with human governance, it began to deteriorate. Not of its own determination, but due to its human administration. Because of sometimes felonious interpretations of the Constitution and the resulting immoral implementations we have arrived at the place where the Founders would scarcely recognize many aspects of what they created. The idea that our Constitution is a “living document” is anathema in the collective mind of a free people, for such an interpretation becomes the means by which despicable, liberty-destroying political worldviews become the law of the land. Thus, we are brought to our present circumstances.

Interestingly, when asked what kind of government had been created, Benjamin Franklin is reputed to have said, “A republic, if you can keep it.” A more realistic answer might have been, “A republic, but it won’t last.” Now, is that some sort of unpatriotic appraisal, unbecoming of any American whose idea of liberty and freedom from government intrusion is valuable enough to die for? No. It is the answer from an American who, like many others, understands that the evil that lurks in the human heart undermines all mortal inspirations no matter how virtuous. As is the case with the human body or an artistic masterpiece, even the best of civil systems begins to degenerate soon after gaining life and is destined to be short-lived only to be replaced by something else. And, regarding a constitutional republic the only direction for it to go is down, humanly speaking, and the slope is slippery once the slide begins. And, it certainly has begun.

This has some major implications. For those who hate the historic American legacy it means the country is finally changing. The change-advocates believe America sticks out like a sore thumb in a world that must not only be globally connected, but globally assimilated. This is made easier because a number of American authorities no longer have nationalistic allegiances and have no reluctance at all about making our country “fit in”. An excellent illustration is the way some Supreme Court Justices now insist upon having alien law and norms influence their interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

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