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First Principles: The Essential Principles of the United States Are Equal and Exact Justice To All Persons

Posted on December 5, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“It is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our government… Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever persuasion, religious or political.” – Thomas Jefferson (1801)

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Thought For the Day: The Deterioration of Any Government Begins With the Decay of Its Founding Principles

Posted on November 24, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The deterioration of every government begins with the decay of the principles on which it was founded.” – Charles de Montesquieu (1689-1755) If you have not yet read Spirit of Laws, I wish to highly recommend it. An English translation … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Legitimate Government Seeks To Secure and Enlarge the Exercise of Natural Rights of Its Members

Posted on November 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of … Continue reading →

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First Principles: A Judiciary Should Be Independent of the Executive Alone, But, Not Independent of the Nation

Posted on November 16, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.” -Thomas Jefferson (1820)

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First Principles: It Is Our Government’s Sacred Duty To Render Equal and Impartial Justice To All Citizens

Posted on October 31, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The most sacred of the duties of a government [is] to do equal and impartial justice to all citizens.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

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Thought For the Day: The United States Gives Bigotry No Sanction and Gives Equal Tolerance To All

Posted on October 30, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens, in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.” … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Democracy Soon Degenerates Into the Depths of Such Anarchy That All Moral Virtue Is Extinguished

Posted on October 21, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man’s life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Our Government Should Not Be Allowed To Perpetuate Debt

Posted on October 19, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.” – Thomas Jefferson (1816)

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First Principles: The People’s Rights Are Derived From Natural Law Not the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Posted on October 18, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.” – Thomas Jefferson (1774)

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First Principles: Persons In High Offices of Public Service Should Have High Moral Character

Posted on October 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“Nothing is more essential to the establishment of manners in a state than that all persons employed in places of power and trust must be men of unexceptionable characters.” – Samuel Adams (1775) … Continue reading →

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