Today, I feel grateful for our system of laws in the US, embodied by our Constitution, and the people who work to serve it every day.
In this time, when there are forces trying to weaken our system of government, calling into question the basics tenets of our democracy and claiming the right to overturn elections because they did not result in the outcome they wanted, our Constitution and our laws stand firm. They are bedrock principles that will continue to serve the people of our country, but only if they are strongly defended.
And that is why our system of government, three branches in equal standing, works. It remains to be seen, perhaps later this year, if that system will stand up to forces who may attempt to defy it. After all, every government only stands if the governed permit, and the members of each branch put the country above the person. When a sect, even a previously formerly powerful one, attempts to break the balance of power, there are two possible outcomes - the sect is shunned, or the system breaks. I, for one, hope for and count on, the former.
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