1984 Daily Constitutional

Daily Constitutional It doesn't take a government to make us feel alive. It just takes our ability to see our Rights through all the jive. 'cause the merchants always have another toy that we should buy. It's questions we must ask ourselves. We wonder why we wonder why. And Our Nation's Constitution is the oldest in the world. For Union and for Justice, for more than arms unfurled. And the men who wrote this document two hundred years ago, Were making rules for government that everybody's bound to know. They wrote seven Sectioned Articles, built on ten commanded Rights. Then sixteen sweet Amendments proved our legislative might. And the Constitution's Preamble, for it is written first, Indicates in simple words The Peoples' fundamental thirst. Three thirsts are spelt with capitals, Union Justice Tranquility. defense is spelt in lower case, but not Posterity. WE THE PEOPLE DO are written large, for we are bold. Welfare and Blessed Liberty, Our Constitution's promised gold. A rebellious Declaration led to Freedom's costly war. Our Rights, the pursuit of happiness, is what we're fighting for. When the King of England finally said that he had enough, The thirteen former Colonies found That Freedom's road is rough and tough. So in the year of Eighty-seven, in Philadelphi-ay There was a great Convention based on voting 'Yea' or Nay.' All summer long the delegates forged clarity from murk. A Constitution was their goal. The flower of a common work. The government that rules the best is one that rules the least. To prevent the politicians from squandering our feast. What WE THE PEOPLE do is from our heart and from Above, The daily toil and ritual. The thing we feel the most is love. H u m a n u a l s