{"id":2613545,"date":"2026-06-12T08:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-replaced-the-constitution-with-these-four-texts-to-enable-mass-migration\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:09:59","slug":"leftists-replaced-the-constitution-with-these-four-texts-to-enable-mass-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/leftists-replaced-the-constitution-with-these-four-texts-to-enable-mass-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftists Swapped 4 Texts For Constitution To Spur Mass Migration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fleftists-replaced-the-constitution-with-these-four-texts-to-enable-mass-migration%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2613545&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>America\u2019s 250th birthday feels more like a funeral.<\/p>\n<p>The lack of enthusiasm most recently presented itself when musicians set to play in the Great American State Fair concert series this summer <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/article\/2026\/05\/29\/great-america-state-fair-america-250-artists-concert-pull-out-young-mc-martina-mcbride\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">withdrew<\/a>, pointing to the polarizing and political nature of the event that had, in their words, been sold to them as a nonpartisan and neutral celebration of America. Country music singer Martina McBride <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/music\/news\/martina-mcbride-freedom-250-drops-out-washington-concerts-1236761850\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> as much on social media, stating that the invitation to perform at a \u201cnonpartisan\u201d event \u201cturned out to be misleading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet America was hardly a nonpartisan, harmonious nation 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>In the lead-up to the bicentennial, the nation was still dealing with the aftershocks of the civil rights era; the Weather Underground had spent years <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/history\/cases-and-criminals\/weather-underground-bombings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bombing<\/a> courthouses, banks, and government buildings in a leftist-fueled domestic terror campaign; the Vietnam War had ended in heartwrenching defeat; and the nation was mired in massive inflation, rising unemployment, and pervasive economic despair thanks in part to staggeringly high oil prices.<\/p>\n<p>And yet America\u2019s 200th birthday <a href=\"https:\/\/ctnewsjunkie.com\/2026\/06\/05\/opinion-americas-200th-birthday-was-a-joyful-celebration-the-250th-not-so-much\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">featured<\/a> Elvis, the Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and Aerosmith performing before packed stadiums, while 6 million spectators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gothamcenter.org\/blog\/operationsail-zy4la-6h6h4-tlwga-allfs-5gpbn-p8hkk-gewm2-86weg-453lp-rtg9j-b4nt8-f2n45-2s22f-kmea4-5jtmm-a2l5n-ljflg-bbjh6-82t6p-w9slx-nhf8r-egskg-7mja9-rk27k-bwgya-x8sb6-9ejss-b9tem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">witnessed<\/a> Operation Sail. Despite all the turmoil, the American people managed to unify in an outpouring of patriotism. But how? Because Americans were still largely a people with a historic memory and a sense of national \u201cself.\u201d That identity had been largely forged during 40 years of restricted immigration \u2014 beginning in 1924 and ending with the Hart-Celler Act in 1965 \u2014 that allowed a singular American identity to solidify.<\/p>\n<p>American statesmen like Theodore Roosevelt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/68152\/68152-h\/68152-h.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">railed<\/a> against \u201chyphenated Americanism.\u201d President Calvin Coolidge, signing the Immigration Act of 1924, was <a href=\"https:\/\/millercenter.org\/the-presidency\/presidential-speeches\/december-6-1923-first-annual-message\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">explicit<\/a> about his desire to keep America American. These were not fringe positions, but the mainstream convictions of a nation that understood itself as a people, not merely a set of propositions.<\/p>\n<p>America in 2026 is no longer the same nation. In fact, in far too many crucial ways, it is no longer a nation in the traditional sense at all. After all, the Latin word for nation is <em>natio<\/em>, originating from the word <em>nasci,<\/em> meaning \u201cbirth,\u201d denoting a people, not a paperwork process. The ethnic and cultural composition of the country has been altered so fundamentally from its 1976 state that inherited national memory, cultural continuity, and common civic reference points have all but evaporated. <\/p>\n<p>It is within this deliberate restructuring that America fell victim to a decades-long effort by academic, media, and political elites to redefine it as a \u201cpropositional\u201d nation \u2014 weaponizing the myth that anyone can become an American by simply adopting a set of ideals. Proponents of \u201cAmerica is an idea\u201d have relied on four specific texts to accomplish this redefinition. I call them the Four Myths of American Civic Universalism: Jefferson\u2019s Declaration of Independence, Lincoln\u2019s Gettysburg Address, Emma Lazarus\u2019 poem on the Statue of Liberty, and JFK\u2019s \u201cA Nation of Immigrants.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Jefferson<\/strong><strong>\u2019s Declaration of Independence<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The universalist misreading begins with none other than the nation\u2019s founding document, the Declaration of Independence. Two phrases in particular, \u201call men are created equal\u201d and \u201cunalienable Rights \u2026 to Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness,\u201d have been interpreted to apply not just to Americans, but to the world at large. Most people never read beyond them.<\/p>\n<p>Upon closer inspection, the Declaration was a carefully crafted diplomatic sales pitch designed to win French sympathy and support for the war. It\u2019s no coincidence that Benjamin Franklin <a href=\"https:\/\/history.state.gov\/milestones\/1776-1783\/b-franklin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">went<\/a> to Paris soon after, armed with its appeals to Enlightenment ideals.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, the core of the Declaration of Independence is legal, not philosophical, citing 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archives.gov\/founding-docs\/declaration-transcript\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">violations<\/a> of the colonists\u2019 rights specifically as Englishmen, which were rooted in the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights. It followed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battlefields.org\/learn\/primary-sources\/olive-branch-petition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Olive Branch Petition<\/a>, which argued that the colonists were being denied rights as British subjects. Ultimately, it is in our English heritage, and not just Enlightenment universalism, that the document\u2019s true meaning lies.<\/p>\n<p>Today, \u201call men are created equal\u201d has morphed into the claim that all cultures are equal. That anyone seeking \u201cthe pursuit of Happiness\u201d should be welcomed regardless of cultural compatibility. Leftists use this to argue that mass immigration is both rooted in the founding and a form of atonement for America\u2019s past sin of slavery and restrictive (that is, \u201cracist\u201d) immigration laws. Conservatives make an eerily similar case, casting the founding as a war for universal principles that makes anyone who works hard and loves liberty an American-in-waiting.<\/p>\n<p>What gets lost is that the Constitution of 1787 was effectively a counterrevolution to the radical excesses of 1776. There\u2019s a reason universalists, such as Abraham Lincoln, point to the Declaration\u2019s preamble while traditionalists ground themselves in the Constitution\u2019s \u201cto ourselves and our posterity.\u201d Without that constitutional grounding, the Declaration of Independence becomes an open-ended mandate for cultural revolution and demographic transformation.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Lincoln\u2019s Gettysburg Address<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>G.K. Chesterton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/262437-america-is-the-only-nation-in-the-world-that-is\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in 1922 that America was \u201cthe only nation in the world that is founded on a creed,\u201d tracing it to the Declaration of Independence. Conservatives rightfully revere Chesterton, but he was an English outsider describing an America that had already been transformed by the Civil War\u2019s ideological revolution.<\/p>\n<p>That revolution was Lincoln\u2019s deliberate substitution of the \u201cuniversal creed\u201d found in the Declaration of Independence for the constitutional heritage,\u00a0as stated in his now-famous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/resource\/rbpe.24404500\/?st=text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gettysburg Address<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cFour score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.\u201d\u00a0This served a practical political purpose.<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln was fielding a Northern force that was 25 percent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalcivilwarmuseum.org\/lectures\/immigrants-in-the-civil-war\/?srsltid=AfmBOoqmVF7-5q2nHr3qm-ioz0RtbpmTD4JMCzxO5x4Acm5hhXJiWWf7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">foreign born<\/a>, with another 18 percent being second-generation immigrants, and he needed an aspirational and ideological hook in the absence of a shared \u201cAmerican\u201d heritage to unite the German <a href=\"https:\/\/anderson-review.ucla.edu\/german-rebels-who-helped-lincoln-win-the-civil-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">revolutionaries<\/a> and Irish immigrants against a South that was 95 percent native born. So Lincoln shoehorned a universalist rationale into a war initially launched to preserve the Union.<\/p>\n<p>And this is not a modern critique. The Chicago Times <a href=\"https:\/\/harrisburgmagazine.com\/lincolns-memorable-address-not-always-well-received\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> on Nov. 23, 1863, in condemnation of Lincoln\u2019s universalist revisionism, \u201cIt was to uphold this Constitution, and the Union created by it, that our officers and soldiers gave their lives at Gettysburg. How dared he, then, standing on their graves, misstate the cause for which they died \u2026 ?\u201d The Times of London also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poynter.org\/reporting-editing\/2014\/today-in-media-history-reporters-describe-lincolns-1863-gettysburg-address\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticized<\/a> it, writing, \u201cThe ceremony was rendered ludicrous by some of the sallies of that poor President Lincoln. \u2026 Anything more dull and commonplace would not be easy to produce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lincoln\u2019s universalist reframing was a political maneuver, and it was recognized as such at the time.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The Statue of Liberty<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There is an egalitarian ethos around mass immigration that dominates modern leftist thinking in what could be called the \u201cStatue of Liberty rationale.\u201d In truth, the Statue of Liberty was never intended to be the center of gravity for mass immigration. Rather, it was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/stli\/learn\/historyculture\/the-french-connection.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gift<\/a> from France commemorating the Franco-American friendship on America\u2019s 100th Birthday, though it wasn\u2019t dedicated until 1886. Emma Lazarus\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/46550\/the-new-colossus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poem<\/a> \u201cThe New Colossus\u201d wasn\u2019t affixed to its base until 1903, and even then it carried little connection to immigration.<\/p>\n<p>During the 1930s, however, in direct <a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/news-and-politics\/2019\/08\/ken-cuccinelli-statue-of-liberty-poem-emma-lazarus-new-colossus-history.html?pay=1780692375665&#038;support_journalism=please\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">response<\/a> to the restrictive immigration legislation of the 1920s, pro-immigration advocates, led by the Slovenian-American journalist Louis Adamic, transformed the poem into a political rallying cry. It was then that the decorative plaque at the base of the statue was transformed into an ideological cudgel against immigration restrictionism.<\/p>\n<p>Today the left uses it to argue admission based on poverty or persecution. The right\u2019s economic liberals use it to argue admission based on GDP contribution. Tired, poor, hungry? Come on in. Wretched refuse? Great. That\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>Both visions discard the principle that immigration must serve the cultural and civic continuity of the nation itself. Not all immigrants pose equal benefits or equal risks to that goal. And so the copper Statue of Liberty, once a symbol of friendship between two nations, became the ideological cornerstone of an open-borders America, not by accident, but by design.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>JFK\u2019s \u2018A Nation of Immigrants\u2019<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Today the phrase \u201cAmerica is a nation of immigrants\u201d is treated as multicultural gospel on both the political left and right. But where, and how, did this phrase embed itself so deeply into the American lexicon?<\/p>\n<p>John F. Kennedy first published \u201cA Nation of Immigrants\u201d in 1958. The Anti-Defamation League <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebsco.com\/research-starters\/literature-and-writing\/nation-immigrants-book\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">commissioned<\/a> the essay, which was expanded into a <a href=\"https:\/\/store.jfklibrary.org\/products\/a-nation-of-immigrants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">book<\/a> that was\u00a0released posthumously in 1964. This book was used to help justify the passing of the 1965 Hart-Celler Act, which reframed America as a nation that should be welcoming to all immigrants after the 40-plus years of immigration restriction that began in 1924.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Immigration Act of 1924, America had operated on a National Origins Formula, calculating immigration caps based on the existing ethnic proportions, which favored Northern and Western Europe to maintain cultural continuity. Hart-Celler abolished these quotas, banning \u201cdiscrimination\u201d in visas based on race, nationality, and place of birth. In many respects it became an extension of the Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964. <\/p>\n<p>While the CRA legally ended discrimination for those already living in America, Hart-Celler extended that principle outward, making it effectively illegal to prefer European immigration. It also instituted a rigid 20,000-per-country cap that treated foundational European nations no differently than Third World countries, and handed <a href=\"https:\/\/immigrationhistory.org\/item\/hart-celler-act\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly 80 percent<\/a> of visas over to a family reunification preference system that unleashed a wave of uncapped chain migration that exists to this day.<\/p>\n<p>The politicians who passed it promised nothing would change. Democrat Ted Kennedy stated, \u201cThe bill will not flood our cities with immigrants. It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society,\u201d while Republican Hiram Fong <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Report\/Legacy-1965-Immigration-Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cOur cultural pattern will never be changed as far as America is concerned.\u201d After signing the Hart-Celler Act into law, Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson <a href=\"https:\/\/cis.org\/Report\/Legacy-1965-Immigration-Act\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">asserted<\/a>: \u201cIt does not affect the lives of millions. It will not restructure the shape of our daily lives.\u201d None of it was true.<\/p>\n<p>In 1960, 84 percent of legal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/race-and-ethnicity\/2015\/09\/28\/chapter-5-u-s-foreign-born-population-trends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">immigrants<\/a> were from Europe or Canada, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/publications\/1962\/dec\/population-pc-s1-24.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">foreign<\/a>-born U.S. population was around 5 percent. By 2023, Mexico alone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2025\/08\/21\/key-findings-about-us-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">accounted<\/a> for 22 percent of all immigrants, with India, China, and the Philippines making up another 16 percent combined. Europeans and Canadians had fallen to just 12 percent of the foreign-born population, while the total foreign-born population hit a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/short-reads\/2025\/08\/21\/key-findings-about-us-immigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">record<\/a> high of 15.8 percent in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Hart-Celler became the legislative instrument that severed the American people from their national heritage, and the politicians who passed it knew exactly what they were doing.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Toward Renewal<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In the relatively brief 50 years since America celebrated her 200th birthday, the nation has undergone a dramatic cultural transformation \u2014 the seeds of which can be traced back to the very founding of the nation itself. Though not the whole story, four separate texts, selectively misread, distorted, weaponized, and enshrined into law, combined to sever over 200 years of American heritage from the collective consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>For most of that time, America understood itself to be a people, and not a proposition. These were unhyphenated Americans who, despite the ebbs and flows of immigration, still managed to hold on to their collective identity right up until it was made illegal to do so in 1965 and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>If America is to ever experience a renewal, it must first understand not only what was taken from it, but the mechanisms, etched in American mythos, that allowed it to happen.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>   Adam Johnston is a senior contributor to The Federalist whose work has been featured in The Blaze, Daily Caller, AMAC, and the American Conservative. He is also the creator of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conquesttheory.com\/\">conquesttheory.com,<\/a>   where he regularly writes about politics, history, philosophy, and technology. You can find him on X <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/adamkjohnston\">@adamkjohnston<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>America\u2019s 250th birthday feels more like a funeral. The lack of enthusiasm most recently presented itself when musicians set to play in the Great American State Fair concert series this summer withdrew, pointing to the polarizing and political nature of the event that had, in their words, been sold to them as a nonpartisan and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3120,"featured_media":2613546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Copy-of-Untitled-2026-06-08T162415.834.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Copy-of-Untitled-2026-06-08T162415.834.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2613546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}