Tag Archives: Independence

Self Rule Rises

Posted on March 23, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

Continuing in a series on American history: Self Rule Rises by Michael Doyle From the High Middle Ages, society had a transformation As Calvin and Luther led the church’s reformation In a faithful take befitting the Bible’s explanation Making these … Continue reading →

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Webster’s Calling

Posted on May 31, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

At one time, Noah Webster called for a unifying national language of American English. On learning that the English were buying his dictionary, he decided instead it was a better thing to recognize that English is English with more in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Let Us Never Forget That America’s Inheritance Rests On A History of Heroes Struggling For Our Future Generations

Posted on January 27, 2019 by alohapromisesforever

“Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the substantial … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The General Principles Behind the Founding of Our Republic Are Christian Principles

Posted on December 25, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and … Continue reading →

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Thought For the Day: Better To Be Politically Dead Than Hypocritically Immortalized

Posted on August 17, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized.” – Davy Crockett, frontiersman, soldier, and … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Independence Requires That We Not Be Beholden To Any Foreign Power

Posted on July 12, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“But if we are to be told by a foreign power … what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.” – George Washington (1796) … Continue reading →

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First Principles: The Noble Inheritance of America Should Be Taught, Guarded and Only Wisely Improved On

Posted on May 13, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

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First Principles: Nations Told What To Do Have Independence Yet To Seek

Posted on May 9, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

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First Principles: Each Branch of Government Is Co-Equal In Interpreting the Constitution

Posted on March 10, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in … Continue reading →

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First Principles: Encroachments On Liberty Often Have Small Beginnings

Posted on February 24, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

“The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea, the magnitude of the evil comprised in the precedent. Let them exert the same wisdom, … Continue reading →

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