Last week in his State of the Union address, President Trump asked a question that truly should be pondered at a deeper level. When he asked the simple question, “Stand if you believe that the duty of the government is to protect American citizens over illegal aliens,” the response was telling. Not a single left-of-the-aisle member stood, of those who did attend the SOTU address. We obviously know that for those who did not attend, their answer was clear. The question that President Trump put to the gathered members of America's legislative branch goes to the fundamental responsibility of the government.

In our Constitution, Article IV, Section 4 is known as the "Guarantee Clause,” and it affirms that the federal government is to guarantee to every state in the union a Republican form of government, America is a Constitutional Republic, and to protect them from invasion. As well, when one reads the essay by French economist Frederic Bastiat titled "The Law,” he asserts that the government exists for the sole purpose of protecting the life, liberty, and property of the citizens. Of course, those three unalienable rights emanate from the Natural Rights theory of classical liberal philosopher, John Locke. The same philosophy of governance studied by Thomas Jefferson and given reference in our Declaration of Independence, "the laws of nature and nature's God.” 

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