The last executive of President Trump is unconstitutional, but it is also excessive.
On Tuesday, like the New York Times ReportsPresident Trump “signed an executive order on Tuesday, which will require proof of American citizenship on election models.” Of course, non -citizens It was never allowed to voteAnd The president has no authority over the elections. The constitution appoints this responsibility for the states.
Arrangement It is the latest example What the Times describes as “Trump’s amazing aggressive approach to power, and quickly moving to demand more power and barrel through standards …”
But it’s more.
It is another sign that the president is trying to change the meaning of what he means to be an American.
That is why the president commanded Goals “Foreign citizens.” This is designed, and the president’s obsession with illegal immigration is to change the way people in this country think themselves.
Throughout our history, the meaning of being an American has been linked to a special understanding of our institutional documents, especially the constitution. The Americans are committed to what Some have called “Civil Religion”.
This is threatened by the words and actions of the president, such as the executive thing that he signed two days ago, with the destruction.
As npr Notes“America, unlike some countries, is not determined by a common origin, nor is it related to the tradition of official faith. But it has a distinctive identity and a semi -religious basis.”
“The intuitive” facts are acquired in the declaration of independence and the main provisions in the American constitution and the noble rights to put the Bible in American consciousness. The acceptance of this unique American doctrine is seen as the key to the identity of the individual as an American.
Or, as law professors Amy Choa and Robvent Argue“Through a new type of patriotism, Americans were supposed to unite on the ideals stipulated in their establishment document.”
This does not mean that this country may rise to the level of its faith or always put that ideals. Often, it has deviated from the obligations of the most important doctrine.
Our history is characterized by many cases in which the rights of unusable people were violated or when they were targeted despite their commitment to their belief in our “civil religion”.
But many of them saw through this injustice. They had faith in this country and believed in better angels.
Distinguished American American historian Nicole Hana Jones She picks this in a story about her father. “My father was always flying an American flag in the anterior courtyard. The blue paint on our two -storey house was permanently cut; the fence, or railways next to the stairs, or the front door was present in a permanent state of badness, but this flag always fled the virgin.”
Thus, “She was continuing,” when I was young, science outside our house was not logical to me. How could this black man, after he saw directly the way his black American country had offended, how did I refuse to treat us as complete citizens, who proudly fly his banners? I did not understand patriotism.
What came only to understand is that her father has never lost hope because of our “civil religion.” This hope and awareness of contributions that are indispensable to black Americans in achieving their promise, maintained it even when he suffered from the failure of this promise.
My father, “Hana Jones wrote,” I knew exactly what he was doing when he raised this flag.
I am not sure that the president understands the vision of America that Hanna Jones’s father keeps. And if he does, the executive order on Tuesday shows his contempt for that.
President Trump treats the constitution as a flexible tool for his will as he calls us to accept a copy of the American story that would push people like her father to margins.
This is because the president is uncomfortable with our “civil religion.”
I thought about what it means to be an American Taps To an “ethnic” tradition of American identity. “This tradition” depends on a set of criteria (including white, Christian, birth, and spoken English) to determine who is a real American, and who is not. ”
However, the professors of Eric Taylor Woods and Robert Sherzer a report“[E]Where, despite the ethnic nationalism … (was) the main to discourage the Trump campaign, it tends to avoid referring to it explicitly. This is what he does when he says that he stands for the “silent majority” and “forgotten men and women”, or when he claims to protect “housewives in the suburbs” from the threat of illegal immigrants. “
For this reason It was the first executive of his new mandate entitled“Protect the meaning and value of American citizenship.” It focused on the newly born citizenship and identified it in ways that will not be recognized for those who included it in the fourteenth amendment of the constitution.
And, ACLU Indicate“It would strip some children born in the United States of their American nationality.” The legitimacy of the president’s executive order is challenged, and many judges have She issued preliminary judicial orders that prevent her from entering into force.
Chua and Rubenfield also argue over the “basic constitutional ambition-in the eighties of the nineteenth century, the sixties of the nineteenth century, the sixties, and the present-to create a national identity to transfer the tribe …” and in this endeavor, “the importance of citizenship in the field of births cannot be increased.”
If we want to resist the president’s efforts to redefine what he means to be an American, we must not take in the excuses that the nation has a fraudulent vote by foreign citizens. Tuesday is just a horse from Trojan to help him continue his strategy of filling fear of anyone who is not “white, Christian and born in the English language” and rejecting the values and teachings of “our civil religion”.
