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In communities across the nation, individuals are discovering that their unalienable right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" has been subjugated to the county's comprehensive plan. These plans are mandated by a state law, adopted in order to win the favor and funding from federal agencies that have decided individuals should live in "sustainable communities," designed by professionals. This is wrong! People should be free to live where they choose. Any limitation of this right should be imposed only by elected officials who are directly accountable to the people whose freedom is restricted.

Most important, a Commission on the Status of Freedom should examine the policy decision process. Increasingly, public policy is being made and implemented administratively, by-passing elected representatives of the people. Arrangements such as the Security and Prosperity Partnership, at the federal level, and the Arizona Mexico Commission, at the state level, use non-elected bureaucrats to "harmonize" and "integrate" rules and regulations -- without review or approval by elected representatives of the people. The people who are subjected to these rules and regulations have no voice in the rules that govern them. This is wrong!

In truth, the U.S, Congress and every state legislature should be our Commissions on the Status of Freedom. They are not - and this is wrong! Far too many of our elected officials have lost sight of the "unalienable rights" endowed by the Creator and guaranteed by the Constitution. The seductive lure of power, and the misguided notion that government knows best have brought down many nations.

A Commission on the Status of Freedom might well trigger a new public exploration of the values that moved our founders to declare and enshrine the principles of freedom that are now so regularly ignored.

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Henry Lamb is the Chairman of Sovereignty International , and founder of the Environmental Conservation Organization (ECO).

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Note -- The opinions expressed in this column are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions, views, and/or philosophy of GOPUSA.

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