by drthomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Judiciary, Politics
The Founders foresaw the predicament under which we now find ourselves being oppressed by the United States Supreme Court and Federal Judges? They not only provided us with the ability to impeach judges; it was their opinion that either the Executive branch or...
by drthomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
The Researcher and historian who analyzed and wrote about America in the 1830s, Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), was a famous French statesman, historian, and social philosopher. Beginning in 1831, he and Gustave de Beaumont toured the country of America to observe...
by drthomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
Joseph Story: life, 1779-1845 U.S. Congressman, 1808-1809 Supreme Court Justice, 1811-1845 Author: Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States Appointed in 1811 as a Justice to the United States Supreme Court by President James Madison (“The Chief...
by drthomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
Patrick Henry wrote on the back of The Stamp Act Resolves, passed in the House of Burgesses, May, 1765, a summary of the pivotal events preceding the Revolution. He ends with this admonition: This brought on the war which finally separated the two countries and gave...
by drthomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Economics, Founding Fathers, Money, Politics
Benjamin Franklin was asked how he could explain the remarkable prosperity of the New England Colonies. Franklin replied: “Why, that is simple! In the Colonies, we issue our own paper money. It’s called ‘Colonial Scrip.’ We issue it to pay the government’s approved...
by drthomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
The Faith of Benjamin Franklin: On March 9, 1790, Benjamin Franklin wrote to Ezra Stiles, President of Yale University: Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshiped. That the...
by drthomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
On June 28, 1813, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson, John Adams wrote: The general principles, on which the Fathers achieved independence, were the only Principles in which that beautiful Assembly of young Gentlemen could Unite… .And what were these general Principles?...
by drthomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
In his first Inaugural Address in 1801, President Thomas Jefferson stated: Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own federal and republican principles…. enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them...
by drthomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
James Madison, founding father, known as the “chief architect of the Constitution,” on June 20, 1785, wrote in regard to the relationship between religion and civil government. “Religion is the basis and Foundation of Government…. We have staked the...
by drthomas | Mar 16, 2019 | Founding Fathers, Politics
In the Church of Virginia on May 10, 1789, Washington stated: If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed by the Convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical...
