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First Principles: What Is the Most Sacred Duty…In A Republic?…An Inviolable Respect for the Constitution and Laws – the First Growing Out of the Last
“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last.” … Continue reading
First Principles: The Only Foundation For A Useful Education In A Republic Is To Be Laid On the Foundation of Religion…Without This There Can Be No Virtue, and Without Virtue There Is No Liberty
“I proceed … to inquire what mode of education we shall adopt so as to secure to the state all of the advantages that are to be derived from the proper instruction of the youth; and here I beg leave to … Continue reading
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Tagged Dr. Benjamin Rush, First Principles, Foundation of Religion, Inquire, Liberty, Mode of Education, New Testament, Object and Life, Only Foundation, Proper Instruction, Religion, Republic, Republican Governments, Secure the State, Useful Education, Virtue, Youth
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First Principles: The Only Foundation For A Useful Education In A Republic Is To Be Laid In Religion. Without This There Can Be No Virtue and Without Virtue, There Can Be No Liberty and Liberty Is the Object and Life of All Republican Governments
“[T]he only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all … Continue reading
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Tagged All Republican Governments, Benjamin Rush, First Principles, Foundation, Liberty, Life, No Liberty, No Virtue, Object, Religion, Republic, Useful Education
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First Principles: A Sacred Respect For the Constitutional Law Is the Vital Principle, the Sustaining Energy of A Free Government
“If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws — the first growing out of the last. … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Hamilton, Asked, Constitution and Laws, Constitutional Law, First Growing Out of Last, First Principles, Free Government, Greatest Source, Inviolable Respect, Most Sacred Duty, Republic, Sacred Respect, Secruity, Sustaining Energy, Vital Principle
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First Principles: A Republic, If You Can Keep It.
“A republic, if you can keep it.” – Benjamin Franklin After the Biden Administration has repetitively stressed calling the American way of life over and over again, it seems there is no better time to remind those misinformed to read … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, Biden Administration, Chaos, Constitutional Convention, Constitutional Representative Republic, Democracy, First Principles, James Madison, Keep It, Notes From the Constitutional Convention, Referendum, Republic, Self-Destructive, The Federalist Papers
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First Principles: They Define A Republic To Be A Government of Laws and Not of Men
“They define a Republic to be a government of laws, and not of men.” – John Adams
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Tagged Define, First Principles, Government, John Adams, Laws, Not of Men, Republic
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Thought For the Day: When Confidence In the Election Process Disappears, Confidence In the Legitimacy of Government Disappears With It
“The reason our democratic republic has functioned as well as it has for the past 231 years is because of our trust in the electoral process. When confidence in the election process disappears, confidence in the legitimacy of government disappears … Continue reading
First Principles: Once A Republic Is Corrupted, There Is No Possibility of Remedying Any of the Growing Evils But By Removing the Corruption and Restoring Its Lost Principles; Every Other Correction Is Either Useless Or A New Evil
” When once a republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.” – Thomas … Continue reading
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Tagged Correction, Corrupt, First Principles, Growing Evils, Lost Principles, New Evil, No Possibility, Once, Remedy, Remove, Republic, Restore, Thomas Jefferson, Useless
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Thought For the Day: We are not just flesh, bone and blood, we are human beings with souls. Our republic was formed on the basis that freedom is not a gift from government but that freedom is a gift from God!
“We are not just flesh, bone and blood, we are human beings with souls. Our republic was formed on the basis that freedom is not a gift from government but that freedom is a gift from God!” – President Donald … Continue reading
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Tagged A Gift From God, Basis, Blood, Bones, Flesh, Formed, Freedom, Human Beings, Not A Gift From Government, President Donald J Trump, Republic, Soul, Thought For the Day, We
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