“A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.”

–Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

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Question: What do you call a government which, when confronted by the illegality of their actions according to the constitution that they swore to uphold, continue to act in the same way AND try to make up new laws that will allow their actions?

Answer: The reason for the Second American Revolution.

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“There is not in the whole science of politics a more solid or a more important maxim than this — that of all governments, those are the best, which, by the natural effect of their constitutions, are frequently renewed or drawn back to their first principles.”

–James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791

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It may be time to draw this government back to our first principles.

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I like the middle of the week. Halfway to the weekend, and I get to take a break and spend time in fellowship with my church family. Can’t beat that, really.

Hope your Wednesday is going well, also. I’l leave you with this:

“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves.”

–Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, 1787

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Lots of howling from the Hill anymore …

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In spite of what many may think, there is no clause regarding the separation of church and state in the founding documents. In supporting documents, Thomas Jefferson and many others have expounded on the importance of not allowing religion to take over the administration of the country, but in the founding documents themselves it merely says that the government shall not create or promote on religion over another.

In other sections, the importance of having separate areas of power, or responsibility, is also expounded at length. Which brings us to today’s quote:

“In the first place, it is to be remembered, that the general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws: its jurisdiction is limited to certain enumerated objects, which concern all the members of the republic, but which are not to be attained by the separate provisions of any.”

–James Madison, Federalist No. 14, 1787

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“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people, who have a right, from the frame of their nature, to knowledge, as their great Creator, who does nothing in vain, has given them understandings, and a desire to know; but besides this, they have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge; I mean, of the characters and conduct of their rulers.”

–John Adams, Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law, 1765

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… and we have seen five years of his conduct. Are we done yet?

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