The Living Document

The Constitution of the United States is a living document. The words are as relevant today as the day they were written. The words that are written have a wisdom that far surpasses man’s abilities to reason. The major provisions of the document are broken down into six sections. One of these sections covers “The Principle of Representation,” this part of the Constitution means that we the people have delegated to an elected official the power to represent us.

The founding fathers, in their great wisdom, provided the following guidelines under which a person could hold an office in the legislative branch of Government. Section 2, part 2, states that no person may be a Representative who will not have attained the age of twenty-five years and will be a citizen of the United States for not less than seven years. Section 3 part 3 states that no person will be a senator unless he is thirty years or older and has been a United States citizen for nine years. Our Founding Fathers tried to cover all the bases. The Constitution is written with its beliefs in the basic goodness of man. Many of the first representatives were farmers, businessmen, a few lawyers, but none were professional politicians.

When the constitution was written, term limits were never discussed. Therefore, the professional politicians of our modern day are just that, professional politicians who line their pocket first, and then look after the people that have voted him in. Since God created people with certain inalienable rights and they in turn, created government to help secure and safeguard those rights, it must follow then, that the people are superior to the creature they created.