Letter: Vote to preserve our nation’s founding principles

President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, holds up a copy of The U.S. Constitution as he testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018, for the second day of his confirmation hearing to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy. | Jacquelyn Martin, Associated Press

For 230 years the God-inspired Constitution of the United States of America has preserved us a free nation. Now that very Constitution is being challenged unlike any other time in our history since the Civil War of 1861, when more than 600,000 people died to preserve this nation.

The clarion call given by President Abraham Lincoln, that “we highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish,” should lead every single law-abiding citizen to vote.

Voting for candidates who will sustain our Constitution in 2020 and maintain law and order is as vital as it was when the Declaration of Independence gave birth to this nation on July 4, 1776. Our vote can keep America a free, law-abiding nation. Those seeking the destruction of our way of life are no longer silently plotting in dark backrooms. They are now openly and blatantly challenging our Supreme Court, our right to religious freedom, our right to bear arms, the authority of our police and the right of life itself.

We can stop these vile threats by voting. Voting is a sacred privilege. But it is much more than a privilege. It is our right. But it is more than a right. It is our duty. Each American citizen has a duty to preserve this nation in which we, our children and posterity can be free. Vote, America; please, vote to uphold law and order and our God-inspired Constitution.

Leona Winger

South Jordan

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