Thank you, David Barton, for taking up the pen to write so powerful a truth as was once bestowed upon this nation in order to restore it to me. I learned it not in public school. I heard it not at government functions. I looked in vain in school libraries where such things ought to have been. Others have helped some in the compiling of these truths from America's godly history, but you have broken the walls of those who oppose this truth and sent the truth through to me. I endeavor here to give it to others. For I appreciate it greatly and do know beyond a shadow of a doubt that such truth is necessary as it itself declares for the preservation of our liberties. In the name of the most holy and undivided Trinity, God's will be done. For those of you who like myself didn't know, that last sentence was borrowed from the opening line of the formal peace treaty between America and Great Britain after the War for Independence.
The rest of this second document, the Constitution, is the detail of how the government is to be run to accomplish the spirit and goals, the purpose, expressed in the first document of the United States of America. The United States of America was acknowledged legally by the Declaration of Independence. The later acts of Congress under the Constitution were dated from the date of the Declaration, thus clearly evidencing their understanding that the Declaration was the foundational document of these United States and it was not dissolved in any way by the second document called the Constitution. The Declaration expressed the reasons and purpose for the United States. The Constitution expressed how those purposes were to be done. The Declaration declared where we were going and why. The Constitution gave the mechanisms of government to accomoplish those goals. The Declaration was the map. The Constitution was the car. They were both needed and functioned together as necessary parts of one whole. John Quincy Adams said the principles of the Declaration are practically interwoven in the Constitution of the United States. He further taught us that we should lay up these principles in our hearts and in our souls, that we should bind them for signs upon our hands, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes. That we should teach them to our children, speaking of them when sitting in our houses, when walking by the way, when lying down and when rising up-----write them upon the doorplates of your houses, and upon your gates, ----cling to them as to the issues of life------adhere to them as to the cords of your eternal salvation.
Do you know what more he said? He solemnly said, of all the curses God pronounced in the Bible upon the people, upon Mount Ebal, there is not one that our posterity will escape if they forget or depart from the principles of the Declaration of Independence as they are practically woven into the fabric of our Constitution. This means our Constitution should always be interpreted and understood in the same light and purpose as those men who wrote it explained. Else it won't work to maintain the blessings of liberty to ourselves or to our posterity. Instead of the blessings the curse will be suffered. We can expect to enjoy the blessings only if we do what he said. Who will join with the wisdom from those Founding Fathers used in the providence of God to establish this nation? Let me know you want to do your part where you are. Ask for more of the explanations given by those men who established this government. Click here to send e-mail now John Quincy Adams was applying extensive Bible scripture to the American situation. We had received a blessing from God and we had a choice to keep it or not to keep it. We would enjoy blessings if we kept the truth, and we would suffer curses if we fell away from the truth. What a shame that such true statements have not been taught to children for longer than I have been alive. Let us seek God to change that.
The hand of Providence ,the hand of God, has been so conspicuous in all this ,the forming of America, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations, to God and country. Commander-in-Chief George Washington to General Thomas Nelson, 1778
Twenty thousand Bibles printed by Congress and given Congressional endorsement within its cover: Whereupon, resolved, that the United States in Congress assembled...recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States, They believed it necessary to the blessings, the general welfare of America.
p 144 Thomas Jefferson writes to Charles Thompson, January 9, 1816 "I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus."
p 144, 145 Alexander Hamilton, "The attempt by the rulers of a nation (France) to destroy all religious opinion and to pervert a whole people to atheism is a phenomenon of profligacy (act of moral depravity) ... To establish atheism on the ruins of Christianity is to deprive mankind of its best consolations and most animating hopes and to make a gloomy desert of the universe.
p 80,81 Their Belief in the Inseparability of Christianity from Teaching:
Motto's of Harvard used to be: "For the Glory of Christ" and "For Christ and the Church"
The "Old Deluder Satan Law" passed in Massachusetts in 1642 and in Connecticut in 1647 so people would be taught to read so they could read the Bible and have a more abundant life without being snared into the delusions of sin
.
p 40, 41 The same Congress that framed the religion clause of the First Amendment showed what it meant by the simultaneous passage of the Northwest Ordinance wherein they coupled religion and schools. They expected religion to be forever taught and encouraged in the schools.
p 343, Governor Morris, Penman and Signer of the Constitution, warned, "The most important of all lessons is the denunciation of ruin to every state that rejects the precepts of religion." Where are we?
JUSTICE
America's immutable principles of right and wrong were not based on the rapidly fluctuating feelings and emotions of the people but rather on what Montesquieu identified as the "principles that do not change." Benjamin Rush similarly observed: p 336 Where there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its operation upon all the members of the community.
John Adams on being a statesman rather than a politician:
The propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained. Inaugural Address, President George Washington
Benjamin Franklin: And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance?...Without His concurring aid...we ourselves shall become a reproach and a byword down to future ages.
Thomas Jefferson similarly cautioned: "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." p 334
Noah Webster: Our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible,...particularly the New Testament, or the Christian religion. p 336 The education of youth should be watched with the most scrupulous attention. The education of youth lays the foundations on which both law and gospel rest. p 340
New Constitutionality: It is constitutional for congressional chaplains to pray(Marsh v Chambers, 1983) but unconstitutional for students to read those prayers ( State Board of Education v Board of Education of Netcong, 1970) This chapter shows new laws being based on the personal opinion of the judges. p 233-239
All laws, however, may be arranged in two different classes. 1) Divine. 2) Human...But it should always be remembered that this law, natural or revealed, made for men or for nations, flows from the same Divine source: it is the law of God...Human law must rest its authority ultimately upon the authority of that law which is Divine. James Wilson, Signer of the Constitution, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
The law...dictated by God Himself is, of course, superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries, and at all times. No human laws are of any validity if contrary to this. Alexander Hamilton, Signer of the Constitution. p 337
"Such compliances (compromises)...of my honor, my conscience, my friends, my country, my God, as the Scriptures informs us must be punished with nothing less than hell-fire, eternal torment; and this is so unequal a price to pay for the honors and emoluments (profits from government)...that I cannot prevail upon myself to think of it (compromise). The duration of future punishment terrifies me. If I could but deceive myself so far as to think eternity a moment only, I could comply and be promoted. p 333,
Back to the Constitution line ESTABLISH JUSTICE
History of Changes in Education
Difference between Humanism and Christiani
John Dewey, atheistic Father of Modern Education
Humanism, polite word for atheism