Terry,
If the NC Public School Forum believes that the Constitution and the founding are irrelevant to the problems we face today, they should go
on record urging the removal of the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence from the Archives building.
Seriously, the Forum statement you quote reveals the hidden agenda.
American history after 1877 is, for the most part, the history of the
Progressive ideology.
That
ideology has worked for more than one hundred years to subvert and replace the
ideas behind the Declaration and the Constitution. And it has been largely
successful.
Woodrow Wilson was the only president to hold a PhD in
political science and, as one of the leading Progressive scholars, he argued
relentlessly against the fundamental provisions of the Constitution such as the
separation of powers and the checks and balances.
Here is what Wilson said about the separation of powers: ?the more power is
divided the more irresponsible it becomes.?
The checks and balances ?have proved mischievous just to the
extent to which they have succeeded in establishing themselves as realities.?
and ?No living thing can have its organs [the three branches] offset against
each other as checks, and live?.Government is?a body of men?Their cooperation
is indispensable, their warfare fatal.?
Learn more about the Progressive attack on the Constitution
and the Declaration go here and here.
Finally, Forum’s criticism of John Locke is consistent with Progressive ideology because the new American history curriculum
that starts in 1877 is a fundamental rejection of John Locke?s philosophy that
was adopted by the founders.
Instead, students will be taught progressive ideology that takes its
philosophy from the German philosopher Hegel.
