Biography
Patrick Bohan has been married for 33 years and is an accomplished rock climber, mountaineer, and cyclist. Patrick perseveres despite being afflicted with a very rare slowly progressive neuromuscular disorder that has remained undiagnosed for 20 years. He owns a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University. He worked as a test engineer for Texas Instruments for 22 years and owns two patents and was elected distinguished member of the technical staff for his elite technical contributions. He is a state and national champion time trialist and has written several books and authored several technical and political articles including several published in Townhall magazine. He ran for Congress in 2024 as a Libertarian in Colorado's 7th Congressional district. Patrick spends his free time studying Constitutional law, theology, history, and science. His prior books, Defending Freedom of Contract and Our God-Given Fundamental Rights detail the negative consequences of the progressive movement on United States governance and American society. Patrick is currently working on releasing a new podcast and book which are both titled Securing the Blessings of Liberty. The podcast can be listened to at https://securingtheblessingsofliberty.podbean.com.
Book Synopsis
Securing the Blessings of Liberty explains how the federal government should operate. This treatise details the limited role of the federal government, the significance and importance of our Christian Founding on the Constitution, the correct definition and principles of fundamental rights, and the correct method to constitutionally protect fundamental rights.
Securing the Blessings of Liberty contrasts how government should operate by detailing how they actually operate. The treatise explains a myriad of methods the government uses to circumvent the Constitution to violate individual rights, mitigate the role of faith, expand the size, scope, and mission of the federal government into every facet of society, increase taxes and regulations, and increase deficit spending and the national debt. The book discusses how Supreme Court doctrines and theories with no constitutional basis allow local, state, and federal governments to violate the rights of citizens. Doctrines and theories such as judicial restraint, Footnote Four, Separation of Church and State, ordered liberty, turning static constitutional clauses into elastic clauses, a hypothetical reason, experimentation, incorporation, emergency powers, regulatory powers, scrutiny, substantive due process, the protection of government monopolies, and my favorite theory of all - the Constitution does not mean what it says.
Every question I received on the campaign trail sought some preferential treatment from the government. It did not matter if the question came from a non-profit, company, or individual or whether they were White, Black, wealthy, or poor. All questions selfishly expected something from the government. What was I going to do to help single mothers? What was I going to do about climate change? What was I going to do to help the elderly? Was I going to tax corporations and the wealthy more? What was I going to do to help small business? What was I going to do about rural healthcare? What was I going to do about the cost of higher education? What am I going to do about transgender rights? What was I going to do about eradicating homelessness? What was I going to do about increasing entitlement spending? What was I going to do about funding abortions? What was I going to do about building low-income housing? The result of the government trying to appease everyone unfortunately leads to the expansion of the federal government, higher taxes, increased regulations, more debt, more deficit spending, more waste, more fraud, higher inflation, and the devaluation of the dollar making Americans clamor for more preferential treatment. Thus, no one is ever satisfied with the amount of government interference. It is never enough! If all that is not bad enough, when the government seeks to address issues based on demographics, the law is no longer applied to everyone equally. The basic principle of the Constitution is that it does not protect any caste system of people, but it protects everyone equally. Without equality, there cannot be liberty. Without liberty, there cannot be an equal protection of individual rights. Without equal protection of rights, it fosters a society of division, polarity, identity politics, groupthink, and incivility as people pursue objectives for the self and not for the common good of all.