John Locke - Father of the Enlightenment - Inspires The

U.S. Constitution
By Dennis Woods

The social contract theory of John Locke provided the philosophy and source of governing
authority for both U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson
borrowed freely from Locke's phraseology.

John Locke laid out the social contract in the 5th paragraph of the chapter entitled "Of the
Beginning of Political Societies" in his "Second Treatise on Government". There he states
that the will of the majority is the only source of authority for civil government. God and His
law are ignored.

"And thus that which begins and actually constitutes any political society is nothing but the
consent of any number of freemen capable of a majority to unite...this is that, AND THAT
ONLY, which did or could give beginning to any lawful government..." [John Locke, Second
Treatise of Government (New York, NY: The Liberal Arts Press, 1952), p. 56]. This is the
heart of democratic social theory -- note the conspicuous exclusion of God and the ruling
authority of His Word.

Under the Lockean model the people contract with one another to ordain a civil government.
God and His law are not Party to the Contract. The Preamble of the U.S. Constitution clearly
adopts this model: "We the people of the United States... do ordain this constitution for
ourselves and our posterity." God is snubbed, and Article VI, Section 3 forbids requiring an
officeholder to swear allegiance to God.

The Bible contradicts Locke's ascription of power to the majority. Romans 13:4 states that
"...there is no power but of God. The powers that be are ordained of God."

Locke's factionalized, pluralistic society is doomed to rip itself apart. God judges the society
that fails to acknowledge the supremacy of Christ. Anarchy ensues.

Without the living and true God and His law there can be no justice. But contrary to popular
Christian opinion, the founding fathers never appealed to the Bible. There is only one
substantive reference to Scripture in the four-volume set of notes compiled from the
Constitutional Convention.

The Federalist Papers, written in defense of the Constitution, make no reference to the
Bible. Having spurned God's law, the founders were forced to employ Locke's Social
Contract and so-called natural law.

When Adam fell, he was expelled into a darkened world that fell with him. Man's fallen mind
cannot correctly interpret the fallen creation. "For the creature [creation] was made subject
to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope" (Rom.
8:20). Looking for justice in the "law of nature" or "natural law" is an exercise in futility in a
fallen world.

The Founding Fathers opened the door for their posterity to arbitrarily reinterpret the vague
social contract articulated by John Locke. As our current desperate plight indicates, the
Constitution cannot shield us from social, economic, and political devolution.
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