“When you come to the land that the LORD your God is giving you, and you possess it and dwell in it and then say, ‘I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are around me,’ you may indeed set a king over you whom the LORD your God will choose.” Deuteronomy 17.14, 15

We need a national government, to be sure, and in the divine economy national governments are no less important than local governments. However, our present experiment in ever-expanding national government has become more a burden on the nation than a boon. Government is today the largest employer, creating a burden of taxation to support itself, and an equal burden of laws and regulations to justify its existence. America needs a strong national government, but not one that, by its sheer weight and size, merely gives the appearance of strength. Strength in national government is a function of justice, not size.

We need a government more like that envisioned and established by the Founders of this country, and less like the one that presently is devoting the majority of its efforts to ensure that material prosperity is the privilege and possession of all Americans, whatever it takes.

The present course of national government in America portends ruin for the nation in the future. We need a new vision of the future – one rooted in and focused on justice, not material wealth – and a reformed national government to help us along the way to that vision.

And these will require a different approach to public policy-making than is currently in practice.

T. M. Moore
 

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