Know Jack #519 I Swear, Do You?

"I, Jack LaFountain, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God."

I took this oath fifty-four years ago. It is still in effect today. The Constitution I promised to support and defend is not the “living, organic” document of Roberts, Sotomayor, and their like. (Brown is a DEI idiot chosen for the boxes she checked off.) I have read Madison, Jefferson, Washington, and the antifederalists. The words they used and their intentions in writing the Constitution are not a mystery.

Therefore, I have always found obedience to my oath to be a simple matter. Simple and easy are not synonymous. The scriptures say that a person who is faithful and true to their oath keeps it, though it hurts. They do this because they realize there is something bigger, something beyond them that does not bend with every breeze—every man’s right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Those things are not the gifts of any government. They are the gifts of God and are to be safeguarded by the power of the people. You will not find the words “do unto others as you would have others do unto you” in our Constitution. If you read it carefully, you will find that spirit alive and well within the text.

If we find ourselves far from that ideal, the problem lies not within the words of the Constitution, but in the readers. If we would distribute evenly the ability to self-govern and to respect one another in the spirit of the document, there would be no desire to redistribute anything else except among the lawless, the envious, and the greedy. We would owe no one anything except to love one another.

That’s why I have bound myself for life with this oath. Moreover, I seek to serve that oath and the ideals it conveys every single day.