Roy Blunt: “I join my two colleagues who were just here and spoke while I was here--my friend from Montana and my friend from…”

“I join my two colleagues who were just here and spoke while I was here--my friend from Montana and my friend from Oklahoma--to talk about, really, the uniqueness of the government we have and of the unbelievable coming together of ideas in Philadelphia in 1787. They were ideas, frankly, that nobody had ever thought of in quite the same way before, starting with the first three words. This was the only document that had ever been devised up until that time that had suggested that the source of government was the source of government that the Constitution recognizes immediately. When the Magna Carta talked about the relationship between the King and the barons of England, that was even a big step in a new direction because, up until then, under monarchies, there was only one source of government, which was God. God's ordained, chosen Monarch was viewed by country, after country, after country as the way this should be done, and there would be a succession, and it would be understood. It had, really, nothing to do with you or me or anybody else. It was all some greater plan that was left up to somebody else. The Articles of Confederation that Mr. Lankford mentioned was a weak form of government that just simply, after a little more than a decade, had been proven not to work. It was just not a workable structure. Yet it looked to the States.…”