We are living in a time where the most important promises of our nation are being forgotten. The Constitution was written to protect you—not the government, not the powerful, but the people.

The Constitution was never meant to be convenient for those in power. It was meant to bind them. It was meant to restrain the ambitions of government, to protect the individual from the tide of majority rule, and to ensure that the rights of speech, privacy, conscience, and justice were never left to the mood of the moment.

What was once unthinkable has become routine. Surveillance without warrants. Censorship cloaked in “safety.” The weaponization of law enforcement for political ends. Rights once enshrined as sacred now dismissed as obstacles to efficiency or threats to stability. And the greatest tragedy of all? Too many Americans have stopped noticing.

This is not the result of a single administration or a partisan agenda. It is the consequence of forgetting who we are — and what we swore to uphold.

The People’s Papers are written to remind us. These essays are not nostalgic. They are urgent. They do not plead for tradition — they fight for liberty. They are a call to remember that the Constitution is not a suggestion. It is the law. It is the contract. And when we allow even one provision to be softened, ignored, or rewritten, we tear a hole through the very document that protects us all.

The erosion of constitutional rights is not an abstract debate. It is personal. It will come for your voice, your privacy, your livelihood, your vote. Not all at once — but piece by piece, until freedom becomes a memory we whisper about, not a reality we live in.

Read these essays. Not because they’re easy, but because they are necessary. Because the hour is late. And because the strength of a republic lies not in its monuments or its armies, but in the will of its people to hold the line.