Posts Tagged ‘american founding’
Europe Must Look to God, Moral Refinement, and a New Political Science to Guide Democratic Impulse
Liberty Letters, Alexis de Tocqueville ... Nor is this phenomenon at all peculiar to France. Whithersoever we turn our eyes we shall witness the same continual revolution throughout the whole of Christendom. The various occurrences of national existence have everywhere turned to the advantage of democracy; all men have aided it by their [...]
Saving the American Idea: Rejecting Fear, Envy, and the Politics of Division
By The Honorable Paul Ryan, Heritage Foundation Abstract: The American commitment to equality of opportunity, economic liberty, and upward mobility is not tried in days of prosperity. It is tested when times are tough—when fear and envy are used to divide Americans and further the interests of politicians and their cronies. In this major [...]
Constitution of the United States
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. Article. I. Section [...]
Washington On The Debt of Gratitude We Owe to God
Liberty Letters, George Washington No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the Invisible Hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency [...]
Is Democracy the Voice of God?
By Steve Farrell Back in August 2010, Judge Vaughn Walker engaged in the increasingly played tyrannical game: "Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool!" when with no other authority than his own high opinion of himself and his revolutionary view of what he'd like California and American law to become, he struck down California's [...]
He Ever Adorned the Profession of Christianity
American Minute with Bill Federer Roger Sherman was the only person to sign all four of America's founding documents: the Articles of Association-1774, the Declaration of Independence-1776, the Articles of Confederation-1777, and the U.S. Constitution-1787. At age 19, Roger Sherman's father died and he supported his family as a shoe cobbler, [...]
John Adams on Canon and Feudal Law — Democratic Thinker
John Adams writes a four-part essay first appearing in the Boston Gazette, August 1765, in which he illustrates the conspiracy of the organized church and government to oppress the citizens. At first untitled, the series appeared in England in a small pamphlet entitled A Dissertation On The Canon And Feudal Law. I say rights, for such they [...]
Nil Desperandum — Samuel Adams
Liberty Letters with Steve Farrell Human nature being what it is, patriotic fervor tends to come and go. In 1772, when it seemed to be more going than coming, James Warren reported to Samuel Adams from Plymouth about the towns he had been canvassing: "They are dead," he lamented, "and the dead can't be raised without a miracle." "Nil [...]
A Sacred Obligation — Ezra Taft Benson
Prophet Statesmen, Ezra Taft Benson If we truly cherish the heritage we have received, we must maintain the same virtues and . . . character of our stalwart forebears—faith in God, courage, industry, frugality, self-reliance, and integrity. We have the obligation to maintain what those who pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred [...]
Christianity and the Constitution — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer The U.S. Constitution went into effect JUNE 21, 1788, when New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratified it. The 55 writers of the U.S. Constitution consisted of: 26 Episcopalians, 11 Presbyterians, 7 Congregationalists, 2 Lutherans, 2 Dutch Reformed, 2 Methodists, 2 Roman Catholics, 2 Quakers and 1 Deist - Dr. [...]
What Is To Be Done? — Steve Farrell
By Steve Farrell In response to the question, "What is to be done?" Or more to the point, 'What is to be done to save the Republic from the grasp of the Establishment and its drive toward domestic and international socialism?' Barry Goldwater, in his 1994 book, "The Conscience of a Conservative," advised: "The ancient and tested truths that [...]
William Penn’s City of Brotherly Love — American Minute
American Minute with Bill Federer 26-year-old William Penn received from King Charles II the charter to Pennsylvania on MARCH 10, 1681, as repayment of a debt owed to his deceased father Admiral Sir William Penn, who captured Jamaica and defeated the Dutch navy. A student at Oxford, William Penn was expelled for having his own prayer services in [...]
America, The Lord's Base of Operations — Ezra Taft Benson
Prophet Statesmen, Ezra Taft Benson To us, this is not just another nation, not just a member of the family of nations. This is a great and glorious nation with a divine mission and a prophetic history and future. It has been brought into being under the inspiration of heaven. . . . God has kept this great nation, as it were, in the hollow of [...]
Madison's Notes — Federal Convention of 1787 — May 14, 25
Liberty Letters, May 14, 25, 1787, James Madison Monday May 14th 1787 was the day fixed for the meeting of the deputies in Convention for revising the federal system of Government. On that day a small number only had assembled. Seven States were not convened till, Friday 25 of May, when the following members 2 appeared to wit: see Note A. 3 viz, [...]
The Federalist No. 2 — John Jay
by John Jay Concerning Dangers from Foreign Force and Influence To the People of the State of New York: WHEN the people of America reflect that they are now called upon to decide a question, which, in its consequences, must prove one of the most important that ever engaged their attention, the propriety of their taking a very comprehensive, as [...]
The Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved — James Otis
Liberty Letters, 1764, James Otis Of the Political and Civil Rights of the British Colonists Here indeed opens to view a large field; but I must study brevity—Few people have extended their enquiries after the foundation of any of their rights, beyond a charter from the crown. There are others who think when they have got back to old Magna [...]
Letter On The Female Sex — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, August 1775, Thomas Paine O Woman! lovely Woman! Nature made thee to temper man, We had been Brutes without you. OTWAY. IF we take a survey of ages and of countries, we shall find the women, almost-without exception-at all times and in all places, adored and oppressed. Man, who has never neglected an opportunity of exerting his [...]
The American Crisis III — Thomas Paine
Liberty Letters, April 19, 1777, Thomas Paine To the honorable the Council of Safety of the State of Pennsylvania IN THE progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experience as we go. We expend, if I may so say, the knowledge of [...]
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death!
by Patrick Henry The Liberty Letters, Volume I, Letter 11, Henry March 23, 1775. No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House. But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought [...]
American Minute with Bill Federer: George Whitefield
Seven times he preached in America to crowds of 25,000, spreading the Great Awakening Revival, which helped unite the Colonies prior to the Revolution. Ben Franklin wrote in his Autobiography: He preached one evening from the top of the Court-house steps...Streets were filled with his hearers...I had the curiosity to learn how far he could be [...]
