The Run for 2000
February 2000

President's Day

This year the month of February brings us President's Day and several Presidential Primaries and Caucuses. What better time to kick off the beginning of our last few Presidential candidate profiles.

By now the Iowa Caucuses and New Hampshire Primaries have come and gone. The Super Tuesday of March is just around the corner. And we have already started to see the candidate field shrink. Every leader within our past has had an impact upon our country and upon each of us even if a particular leader was not a "great" one. It is for this very reason that we must pay attention to what all our leaders have done and plan to do. If we do not, then we basically negate our right to a free country run by a Democratic-Republic form of government.

The purpose of our continued series, The Run for 2000, is to keep one informed about each of the major candidates. In doing so, we hope to dig up information that one may not usually get from the mainstream media.

In addition to "The Run for 2000" we believe our other current series dealing with "The Guardians of the Constitution" also informs one about what our President believes in. We can tell what our President believes by whom he nominates for the highest court in the land.

Judicial Decision

Many people think that basing one's choice for President on whom that candidate would place on the high court is ridiculous. When in fact, it is probably the best test of a Presidential candidate. The argument can be made that the Judicial Branch of government has changed America more than any law passed by Congress or any action taken by the President.

So, the future of our nation depends upon whom a President nominates to the Supreme Court. But there are a couple more parts to this equation.

Legislative Confirmation

Every nomination for the Judiciary branch must pass the test of the Legislative branch.

Each Judicial nominee must be confirmed by the Senate. If the Senate does not confirm the President's nominee, then the President must nominate someone else.

Our founding fathers created one of the best forms of government. they provided us with many checks and balances to each part of the Constitutional process.

With this in mind, we must not forget that even if we have this creative form of government, it is all dependent on one thing.

We the People

The entire process will not work if the people are not actively trying to keep it in good working order. Without involvement, we lose our knowledge of how things work. Without the knowledge of the entire process, we set ourselves up for self-destruction.

"We the people" are responsible for who becomes President, who becomes our Legislator, and who sits on the High Court. But all that depends on what "We the People" believe. Society's actions are mirrored by the government it follows.