Our U.S. Constitution states, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”

And the Bill of Rights, Amendment I, states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

Sometimes it is good to be reminded, so we can hear each other above the din and angst of special interests that may not have the nation’s general welfare and domestic tranquility foremost in their hearts and minds, and who may be skewing justice for personal advantage, and who do not have a clue from whom blessings of liberty come.

Mark Wood, Poland